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US 10,399,602 B2Granted
Vehicle body including reinforcement on rocker panel
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsGaRam Jun, Bret Kirchner, Chienhom Lee, Ken Garbinski, Christopher John May
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Abstract
A vehicle body includes a rocker panel elongated along an axis. The vehicle body includes a pillar fixed to the rocker panel and elongated in a direction transverse to the axis. The rocker panel includes a first flange and a second flange. The first flange and the second flange are on opposite sides of the pillar and spaced from each other in a direction parallel to the axis. The vehicle body includes a reinforcement fixed to the first and second flanges.
Claims19
A vehicle body comprising:
- a rocker panel elongated along an axis;
- a pillar fixed to the rocker panel and elongated in a direction transverse to the axis;
- the rocker panel including a first flange and a second flange, the first flange and the second flange being on opposite sides of the pillar and spaced from each other with a gap between the first flange and the second flange in a direction parallel to the axis;
- a reinforcement having a lower member extending across the gap from the first flange to the second flange, the lower member fixed to the first and second flanges, the reinforcement including an upper member spaced from the lower member transverse to the axis, the upper member being fixed to the pillar;
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- a seat belt retractor between the upper member and the lower member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.