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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2006
Matthew Mollick, Novi, MI (US);
Mark Snyder, Beverly Hills, MI (US);
Hirofumi Eta, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Matthew Mollick, Novi, MI (US);
Mark Snyder, Beverly Hills, MI (US);
Hirofumi Eta, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Nissan Technical Center North America, Inc., Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Abstract
A roof structure for a vehicle can include a tailor-welded-blank, inner roof frame. The inner roof frame can include, at least in part, an elongated, transversely extending, intermediate roof rail having a first material thickness, and a plurality of reinforced roof rails. Each of the reinforced roof rails can extend away from the intermediate roof rail in a common direction toward a remote end of the inner roof frame. Each of the reinforced roof rails can have a different material thickness than the first material thickness of the intermediate roof rail.