Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Jidosha Engineering Kabushiki Kaisha

Takashi Kikuchi

Takashi Yakata

Keishi Goto

Shinsuke Miyoshi

Koji Shibata

Hideki Honjo

Takayuki Yatabe

Satoshi Arakawa

A vehicle body frame structure capable of realizing the connection to a side body in the form of structural connection. The vehicle body frame structure includes a side body whose skeleton is formed by a body panel that forms a side face of the vehicle body and a reinforcement member that is formed into a shape extending along the inside of the body panel and joined to the body panel, a front frame member that forms a front body disposed to form a shape extending from the side body to the front of the vehicle body, and an outer frame member joined to the front frame member from side of the vehicle body and secured to the reinforcement member by means of bolts extending through the body panel.

Vehicle body frame structure

Coupling members include a first coupling portion (X) that couples rear quarter inner members to upper surfaces of rear suspension base members, a second coupling portion (Y) that couples upper surfaces of the rear suspension base members together, which are located on the right and the left in pairs, and a third coupling portion (Z) that joins the second coupling portion to couple the rear quarter inner members together, which are located on the right and the left in pairs, the coupling member being integrally formed, and there is formed a bulkhead structure in a portion surrounded by the first, second and third coupling portions.

Vehicle body structure of periphery of rear suspension

In a side body structure, a front reinforce is provided between a side body outer panel and a side body inner panel and also, a rear roof side reinforce is provided so as to couple the front reinforce to a rear pillar reinforce along the upper edge of an opening of a rear door, and vehicle body rigidity of the periphery of the opening of the rear door as well as the periphery of an opening of a front door is enhanced.

Side body structure

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Kasugai, Japan

Takashi Kikuchi