Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Iida Industry Co., Ltd.

Tetsuya Shinohara

Yoshimitsu Yokoi

Kenji Takada

Keisuke Suzuki

Yasunori Yamada

Shigeaki Kitamura

Shinichirou Murofushi

Hironao Ito

A body frame structure forming a side part of an automobile includes an outer panel, an inner panel that forms a closed space elongated in a first direction between the inner panel and the outer panel, a metal outer R/F disposed within the closed space, a resin R/F disposed within the closed space, and a foam disposed within the closed space. The closed space includes a three-layer structure including the outer R/F, the resin R/F, and the foam filling a space between the outer R/F and the resin R/F.

Body frame structure

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Anjo, Japan

Tetsuya Shinohara