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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2014
Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Tohru Okada, Tokyo, JP;
Masanori Yasuyama, Tokyo, JP;
Teruki Sakamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Imamura, Tokyo, JP;
NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An automobile structural member () has a closed transverse section shape constituted with a first composing member () and a second composing member (). The first composing member () has a vertical wall portion (), a bent portion (), and an inward flange (), and has a load transmission portion () formed in at least a part of a region being a region between the bent portion () and the second composing member () and being a region of an extension of the vertical wall portion () toward the second composing member () and which joins the bent portion () and the second composing member (). Thereby, a bending and crushing performance can be improved.