Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Shintaro Kitakata

Hiroshi Kato

Atsushi Mikuni

Kenjiro Yamada

Koichiro Ueno

Syouta Hashimoto

Harutoshi Motojima

Satoshi Funabashi

Kentaro Nakamura

Tsuyoshi Izuhara

Shigenori Hashida

Masaya Miura

Yasuyuki Hihara

Hiroki Hyodo

Hiroki Hashimoto

Tomoyuki Kuriyama

Yasuhiro Hara

Kosuke Sakakibara

Hiroyuki Kurokawa

Takanobu Kaneko

Akihiro Tamaoki

Tetsuo Nuruki

Yoshitaka Sotoyama

Kouki Ikeda

Toshihiro Goto

Hiroshi Mizuo

Yasutaka Hasegawa

Yoichi Tamura

Yukio Oka

Nobuhisa Ishiyama

A vehicle upper structure disclosed in the present specification comprises a roof panel having a communication opening formed therein; a roof reinforcement disposed near a front end of the communication opening and joined to the roof panel; a rear header disposed near a rear end of the communication opening and joined to the roof panel; and an antenna plate that supports a communication device and is connected to the roof reinforcement and the rear header, wherein the rear header is joined to the roof panel at a front end and a rear end thereof, and forms a first closed space elongated in a vehicle width direction between the rear header and the roof panel.

Vehicle upper structure

A vehicle upper structure comprising: a roof panel having a communication opening and at least one bead; and a communication device fixed to the roof panel such that the communication device does not protrude beyond a design surface of the roof panel to an exterior of the vehicle, wherein the communication device is located within the communication opening in plan view, and the at least one bead is formed at a periphery of the communication opening.

A vehicle skeleton structure including: a roof reinforcement that configures a part of a roof section of a vehicle body, the roof reinforcement extending in a vehicle width direction, the roof reinforcement having a closed cross-sectional shape when viewed from the vehicle width direction, the roof reinforcement being configured such that a communication device capable of at least one of sending or receiving of radio waves can be disposed at an inner side thereof, and a penetrating section being formed at a portion at a vehicle upper side of the roof reinforcement; and a lid member that closes off the penetrating section, the lid member being configured by a material capable of transmitting radio waves.

Vehicle skeleton structure

A holding structure for holding a mounted part on a floor panel includes: a floor panel that extends in a vehicle front-rear direction and in a vehicle width direction, the floor panel including an adhesion surface that is joined via an adhesive agent to a first portion of a body, and an anchoring portion that protrudes from a surface on an opposite side from the adhesion surface; a mounted part that is anchored to the anchoring portion; and a connecting component comprising a first portion that is fixed to the mounted part, and a second portion that is fixed to a second portion of the body.

Holding structure for holding a mounted part on a floor panel

A vehicle lower portion structure includes a resinous floor panel constituting a vehicle cabin floor surface, and a metallic reinforcing member. The reinforcing member is disposed to be bridged between vehicle skeleton members on a lower side of the floor panel and is configured to support a vehicle-mounted object disposed on the lower side of the floor panel.

Vehicle lower portion structure

A vehicle body structure includes a reinforcing material layer formed of a fiber reinforced resin and a vehicle skeleton member having a closed sectional structure formed of metal. The reinforcing material layer is bonded to a surface of the vehicle skeleton member having a recessed portion recessed toward an inside of the closed sectional structure. An adhesive is disposed at least between the recessed portion and the reinforcing material layer.

Vehicle body structure

A vehicle body structure includes a reinforcing member formed of a fiber reinforced resin and having a plate shape or a sheet shape and a metallic vehicle framework member. The vehicle framework member includes a rear wall portion and a reinforcing portion, one end face of the reinforcing member in a thickness direction of the reinforcing member being bonded to the rear wall portion and the reinforcing portion being disposed on the rear wall portion and protruding along a vertical direction from the rear wall portion.

An energy absorbing structure of a vehicle of the present invention has: a bumper reinforcement positioned at a vehicle front end portion or a vehicle rear end portion, the bumper reinforcement extending in a vehicle transverse direction; and a crash box made of a fiber-reinforced resin, the crash box being disposed at a side opposite a side of input of collision load to the bumper reinforcement, and the crash box being structured to include a crash box main body having a closed cross-sectional structure. An upper portion and a lower portion of the crash box main body do not overlap the bumper reinforcement as seen from a vehicle longitudinal direction.

Energy absorbing structure of vehicle

A vehicular energy absorption structure includes a hollow tubular energy absorption body made from a fiber reinforced resin, an opposing face (e.g., an attachment plate) that is provided facing an axial direction end portion of the energy absorption body, and against which the energy absorption body is crushed from the axial direction end portion during a vehicle collision, and a guide section (e.g., peripheral wall, ribs) that projects from the opposing face and that is disposed in an interior of the energy absorption body. The guide section includes an abutting section (e.g., abutting walls) that contacts a wall of the energy absorption body from the inner side of the wall during the vehicle collision, the abutting section being separated from the opposing face by an opening in the axial direction of the energy absorption body.

Vehicular energy absorption structure

A vehicle energy absorption structure includes an energy absorption member made of fiber reinforced resin. At least part, in a thickness direction, of that wall extending in a load input direction of the energy absorption member is provided with a plurality of discontinuous portions discontinued from each other in the load input direction, the plurality of discontinuous portions being arranged along the load input direction.

Vehicle energy absorption structure and energy absorption member

A vehicle body framework structure includes an elongated hollow framework member and a reinforcement member disposed within the hollow framework member, the reinforcement member including a first contact portion that contacts a first internal face of an opposing pair of internal faces of the framework member, a second contact portion that contacts a second internal face of the opposing pair of internal faces, and a coupling portion that couples the first contact portion to the second contact portion. At least one slit is formed in at least the second contact portion and the coupling portion of the reinforcement member, the slit extending from an end portion on the second internal face side of the reinforcement member toward the first internal face side of the reinforcement member and having a depth that is greater than or equal to one fourth of a spacing between the pair of internal faces.

Vehicle body framework structure

A front side memberis arranged in a front part of a vehicle bodyon an Outer side in a vehicle width direction along a vehicle front-rear direction, and an apron upper memberis further arranged on the outer side in the vehicle width direction and an upper side thereof. A gussetis attached to an outer side of a front end of the front side memberin a projected manner. Furthermore, a front end of the apron upper memberis connected to the gussetvia an apron brace. A rear sectionA of the apron braceis provided with a first lateral flange sectionC and a second lateral flange sectionD toward the vehicle width direction.

Vehicle front structure

A vehicle body front portion structure is equipped with a front side member that is disposed along a vehicle front and rear direction at a vehicle width direction outer side of a power unit disposed in a vehicle body front portion. A spacer is attached to an outside portion at the vehicle width direction outer side of the front side member. The spacer has a rear side attachment portion that is joined to the outside portion of the front side member, an outside front wall portion that is positioned at the vehicle front and rear direction front side and the vehicle width direction outer side of the rear side attachment portion, and a load transmitting rib that interconnects the outside front wall portion and the rear side attachment portion.

Vehicle body front portion structure and load receiving member

A vehicle body end section structure is obtained that enables a spacer member that transmits load to a framework member in a small overlap collision to be suppressed from impinging on a wheel in a minor collision. The vehicle body end section structure comprises a pair of left and right framework members, a bumper framework section connected to leading end portions of the pair of framework members, and a spacer member that projects out from a jutting-out portion of the bumper framework section toward a framework member side. The spacer member is disposed such that a rotation trajectory of the spacer member about a connection location between the bumper framework section and the framework member, the connection location is positioned on an opposite side in the vehicle width direction of the spacer member, does not impinge on a wheel in plan view.

Vehicle body end section structure

A vehicle body front section structure includes a first projection member provided at an outside wall of a front side member, and projecting out further to the vehicle width direction outer side than the outside wall, a rear end portion being positioned further to a vehicle body rear side than a vehicle body front side end of a power unit installed to the vehicle width direction inner side of the front side member in plan view, a second projection member provided at a vehicle width direction end side of front bumper reinforcement and overlapping with the first projection member as viewed from the front, the second projection member being provided with a gap to the outside wall of the front side member, and a coupling bracket provided at the vehicle body rear side of the first projection member, and coupling together the front side member and the first projection member.

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Nissin, Japan

Shintaro Kitakata