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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2020
Applicant:
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Eric J. Boettcher, Columbus, OH (US);
Assignee:
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60J 5/04 (2006.01); B21D 53/88 (2006.01); B23K 20/12 (2006.01); B23K 31/02 (2006.01); B21D 5/10 (2006.01); B23K 103/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60J 5/0443 (2013.01); B21D 5/10 (2013.01); B21D 53/88 (2013.01); B23K 20/122 (2013.01); B23K 31/027 (2013.01); B60J 5/0483 (2013.01); B23K 2103/10 (2018.08);
Abstract
A vehicle door beam and related methods of making door beams include a flat-rolled aluminum alloy sheet, where two edges of the sheet that are transverse to the roll direction of the sheet are brought together to form a tube. The two edges are friction stir welded together to form a butt joint along a length of the tube. The tube is arranged, along with other optional components, as a side-impact door beam in a vehicle door, such that the butt joint is facing away from an expected impact direction of the vehicle door.