Front portion structure of vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKoji Saeki
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Abstract
A vehicle front portion structure includes a hood, a radiator support upper member, a bracket mounted on an upper portion of the radiator support upper member, and a stopper attached to an upper portion of the bracket and configured to be contacted, when the hood is closed, by a protruding portion on a lower surface of the hood, in which the bracket is a member having a channel shape in cross section and protruding upward in a vehicle vertical direction, and is composed of leg plates and a top plate. The bracket is mounted on the upper portion of the radiator support upper member in a state where the leg plates and the top plate extend along a vehicle width direction, and the leg plates also extend in the vehicle vertical direction along a direction in which the protruding portion makes contact with the stopper.
Claims6
A front portion structure of a vehicle, comprising:
- a hood having a rear end which is pivotably supported at a rear end of a front compartment located in a front region of the vehicle, and a front end which is configured to be lifted up and down for opening and closing the front compartment;
- a radiator support upper member disposed on an upper front region within the front compartment so as to extend along a vehicle width direction;
- a bracket mounted on an upper portion of the radiator support upper member;
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- a stopper attached to an upper portion of the bracket, and composed of an elastic body that is contacted, when the hood is closed, by a protruding portion provided to a lower surface of a front end portion of the hood, wherein
- the bracket is a channel shaped member having a channel shape in cross section and protruding upward in a vehicle vertical direction, and is composed of two leg plates whose lower ends are fixed to the radiator support upper member and a top plate which connects the leg plates, wherein the bracket is mounted on the upper portion of the radiator support upper member in such a manner that the leg plates and the top plate extend along the vehicle width direction, and
- the leg plates are further configured to extend in the vehicle vertical direction parallel to a contact direction in which the protruding portion is brought into contact with the stopper.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.