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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2017
Filed:
May. 29, 2014
Applicant:
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, JP;
Inventor:
Mutsumi Kawashima, Nisshin, JP;
Assignee:
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota-shi, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60J 5/10 (2006.01); B60R 13/07 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60J 5/107 (2013.01); B60R 13/07 (2013.01);
Abstract
A convex portion is provided on a door outer panel. Thus, when the door outer panel is thermally expanded, the convex portion is compressed along the direction of a plane of the door outer panel, so a gap the convex portion is crushed. That is, a dimensional difference that has occurred between the door outer panel and a door inner panel along the direction of the plane of the door outer panel is absorbed through compressive deformation of the convex portion.