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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2012
Jonathan Richard Young, Dundee, MI (US);
Taichi Yamashita, Northville, MI (US);
Naipaul Deo Ramoutar, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Jonathan Richard Young, Dundee, MI (US);
Taichi Yamashita, Northville, MI (US);
Naipaul Deo Ramoutar, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Erlanger, KY (US);
Abstract
A frame structure is adapted to absorb energy from frontal impacts and extends under a front portion of the body frame. The frame structure includes a rear sub-frame located below and in front of a pair of side frame under-members, and a reinforcement bracket attached to the pair of side frame under-members to facilitate formation and control a deformation shape in an energy absorption pocket in the side frame under-member during a frontal impact for temporarily restraining the rear sub-frame before releasing the rear sub-frame to slide past the reinforcement bracket. The energy absorption pocket is formed in the side frame under-member forward of and outboard of the reinforcement bracket during a frontal impact prior to the rear sub-frame be released from B-point bolt connections to the side frame under-members.
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