Vehicle body structure
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsMasato Watanabe, Sadayuki Asano
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Abstract
An object of the present invention is to provide a vehicle body structure with improved rigidity of a vehicle body. The vehicle body structure includes a side sill extending in a vehicle front-rear direction and having at least a side sill inner member, a side sill reinforcing member disposed outside in a vehicle width direction of the side sill inner member at a rear portion of the side sill inner member, and a wheel arch member disposed behind the side sill, wherein the side sill reinforcing member includes a first fixing portion fixed to an outer surface of the wheel arch member from the outside in the vehicle width direction, and a second fixing portion fixed to a front surface of the wheel arch member from the front.
Claims6
A vehicle body structure comprising:
- a side sill extending in a vehicle front-rear direction and having at least a side sill inner member;
- a side sill reinforcing member disposed outside in a vehicle width direction of the side sill inner member at a rear portion of the side sill;
- a wheel arch member disposed behind the side sill;
- a wheel arch extension member extending downward from a front surface of the wheel arch member, wherein
- the side sill reinforcing member comprises:
- a first fixing portion fixed in the vehicle width direction to an outer surface of the wheel arch member;
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- a second fixing portion fixed in the vehicle front-rear direction to the front surface of the wheel arch member, and
- the second fixing portion is overlapped with and fixed to a connecting portion of the wheel arch member and the wheel arch extension member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.