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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2002
Mitsuhiro Sonomura, Tokyo, JP;
Haruaki Nakatsukasa, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Abstract
A power unit arrangement structure for a vehicle is provided with a side-member extending in a fore and aft direction of a mounting room and enabled to achieve buckling deformation in the fore and aft direction during a frontal collision, a sub-frame extending in the mounting room along the fore and aft direction at an area below the side-member, a mount member having respective an insulating function and permitting a power unit to be supported with the side-member, a bent portion disposed at a substantially intermediate portion of the sub-frame in the fore and aft direction and having a downwardly bent configuration, and a connecting member connecting a lower portion of the power unit to the sub-frame in the vicinity of the bent portion. The mount member is capable of tearing in response to relative movement of the side-member and the power unit in the fore and aft direction during the frontal collision. The sub-frame has a part having a substantially V-shaped configuration in a side view. With such a structure, a falling behavior of the power unit is stably controlled during the frontal collision of the vehicle.