Vehicle door
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorShinobu Tanaka
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Abstract
A vehicle side door internally includes an impact beam which extends along a longitudinal axis of a door. The impact beam is attached to a door inner panel via an outer extension. An inner extension is attached inside the outer extension. A distance along thickness of the door between the inner extension and the impact beam is shorter in a close proximity section than in a longitudinally neighboring area. Because the load received by the inner extension via the close proximity section is transferred to joint portions connecting to the outer extension, the load received by the outer extension from the impact beam is dispersed.
Claims10
A vehicle door comprising:
- a reinforcing element disposed inside a door of a vehicle and extending along a longitudinal axis of the door, the longitudinal axis defining a longitudinal direction;
- a first bracket to which the reinforcing element is secured, at least a part of the first bracket being disposed transversely inward of the reinforcing element;
- and
- a second bracket disposed transversely inward of the first bracket in an area in which at least an end portion of the reinforcing element overlaps the first bracket in a door side view, the second bracket having a plurality of joint portions connecting to the first bracket,
- wherein the reinforcing element is secured to the door by one or both of the first bracket and the second bracket, and
- in an overlapping area of the second bracket overlapped with the reinforcing element in the door side view, where the joint portions are not provided, the second bracket includes a close proximity section in which a distance, along a thickness direction of the door, between the second bracket and the reinforcing element is shorter than in a longitudinally neighboring area of the second bracket longitudinally spaced from the close proximity area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.