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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2022
Shape Corp., Grand Haven, MI (US);
Brian Oxley, Ada, MI (US);
Matthew Kuipers, Holland, MI (US);
Joseph R. Matecki, Allendale, MI (US);
Cody Alger, Allendale, MI (US);
Douglas S. Baas, Zeeland, MI (US);
Shape Corp., Grand Haven, MI (US);
Abstract
A rocker component for a vehicle having a reinforcement beam including a metal sheet that is shaped with a plurality of elongated bends extending in parallel along a length of the reinforcement beam that together form a cross-sectional shape extending continuously along the length of the reinforcement beam. The cross-sectional shape of the reinforcement beam includes a beam portion and a flange portion integrally extending from the beam portion and includes an edge of the metal sheet. The rocker component also includes a sill panel having flanges extending longitudinally along upper and lower edges of the sill panel relative to the vehicle, the flange portion of the reinforcement beam joined to one of the flanges of the sill panel to secure the reinforcement beam to the sill panel in replacement of a separate second sill panel.