Front vehicle body structure of vehicle
AssigneeMazda Motor Corporation
InventorsShigeaki Watanabe, Hidenori Matsuoka
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Abstract
A suspension housing which is provided at a front part of a vehicle and to which a suspension is mounted has a first fixed portion and a second fixed portion that are provided at positions separated from each other in a front-rear direction and each fixed to a front frame. The suspension housing further has, at a position between the first fixed portion and the second fixed portion in the front-rear direction, a buckling promoting portion that promotes buckling of the suspension housing when a load is applied from the front frame to the suspension housing in the front-rear direction.
Claims10
A front vehicle body structure of a vehicle, comprising:
- a front frame provided at a front part of the vehicle and extending in a vehicle front-rear direction;
- and
- a suspension housing which is provided at the front part of the vehicle and to which a suspension is mounted,
- wherein the suspension housing has a first fixed portion and a second fixed portion that are provided at positions separated from each other in the front-rear direction and each fixed to the front frame, and a buckling promoting portion that is provided at a position between the first fixed portion and the second fixed portion in the front-rear direction and promotes buckling of the suspension housing when a load is applied from the front frame to the suspension housing in the front-rear direction, and
- wherein the suspension housing comprises:
- a plurality of arm supporting parts that are provided at positions separated from one another in the front-rear direction and support a suspension arm of the suspension;
- and
- a bulge that is formed in a region of an inner side surface in a vehicle width direction of the suspension housing, located between the arm supporting parts in the front-rear direction, so as to bulge inward in the vehicle width direction.
A front vehicle body structure of a vehicle, comprising:
- a front frame provided at a front part of the vehicle and extending in a vehicle front-rear direction;
- and
- a suspension housing which is provided at the front part of the vehicle and to which a suspension is mounted,
- wherein the suspension housing has a first fixed portion and a second fixed portion that are provided at positions separated from each other in the front-rear direction and each fixed to the front frame, and a buckling promoting portion that is provided at a position between the first fixed portion and the second fixed portion in the front-rear direction and promotes buckling of the suspension housing when a load is applied from the front frame to the suspension housing in the front-rear direction,
- wherein the buckling promoting portion is formed in an inner side surface in a vehicle width direction of the suspension housing and has a shape extending in an up-down direction with a bend protruding inward in the vehicle width direction, and
- wherein an inner wall of the suspension housing, forming the inner side surface in the vehicle width direction of the suspension housing, includes a bulging part which is formed to bulge inward in the vehicle width direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.