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Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2023

Filed:

Jan. 24, 2020
Applicant:

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota Aichi-ken, JP;

Inventor:

Kohei Hisada, Nagoya, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D 29/00 (2006.01); C21D 9/46 (2006.01); C21D 1/09 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D 29/007 (2013.01); C21D 1/09 (2013.01); C21D 9/46 (2013.01);
Abstract

A hardened portion in a vehicle structure has an almost hemispherical shape around a lower surface side of a bottom wall rear portion in a vehicle upper-lower direction, the lower surface side serving as a center of a curvature. As the hardened portion is formed, a direction of tensile stress generated in the hardened portion is a radial direction in which the center of the curvature serves as a center side. Thus, occurrence of tensile stress in directions opposite to each other by which a specific part within the hardened portion is pulled apart in a direction orthogonal to the thickness direction of the bottom wall rear portion is inhibited.


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