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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2003
Kosuke Akasaka, Wako, JP;
Shinji Kumagai, Wako, JP;
Keiichi Honda, Wako, JP;
Yuji Kikuchi, Tochigi, JP;
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An automobile heel stopper shock-absorbing structure is formed from a receiving plate that on the outside has a heel receiving surface and on the inside faces a dash panel with a space therebetween, a front support plate connected integrally to a front end part of the receiving plate and having its extremity joined to the dash panel, and a rear support plate connected integrally to a rear end part of the receiving plate and having its extremity joined to at least one of the dash panel and a floor panel. The rear support plate is made weaker than the receiving plate and the front support plate so that the rear support plate will buckle when a pushing-in load acting on the receiving plate is equal to or greater than a predetermined value. The values of flexural rigidity of the front support plate and the receiving plate are set so that the front support plate falls forward so as to make the receiving plate sink forward when the pushing-in load acting on the receiving plate is equal to or greater than a predetermined value.