Nissan Motor Company Limited

Nissan North America, Inc.

Yuichi Igarashi

Kenichi Abe

Yukihiro Hamada

Nicholas Trifonoff

Aaron Felsenfeld

Masamoto Ono

A vehicle body structure includes a floor structure, a rear side member and a reinforcing member. The floor structure at least partially defines a door sill portion, a rear wheel well portion and a rear seat support portion. The rear side member extends wider and is directly attached to a lower surface of the floor structure adjacent to the door sill portion and a forward section of the rear wheel well portion. The reinforcing member is fixedly attached to an upper surface of the floor structure adjacent to the door sill portion and the forward section of the rear wheel well portion such that a portion of the floor structure, a portion of the reinforcing member and a portion of the rear side member are welded together via a plurality of triple welds.

Vehicle body structure

A vehicle body lower structure includes a side sill, a center tunnel, a floor panel disposed between the side sill and the center tunnel, a first frame member connected to a front side member, and a second frame member connected to the front side member. The first frame member extends obliquely such that, as the first frame member extends further rearward, the first frame member extends further outward in a vehicle width direction. The second frame member is connected to the side sill. The second frame member extends obliquely such that, as the second frame member extends further rearward, the second frame member extends further inward in the vehicle width direction. The second frame member is connected to the center tunnel. One of the first frame member and the second frame member is provided on an upper surface of the floor panel.

Vehicle body lower structure

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yuichi Igarashi