# US 11,305,821 B1 · Vehicle body front structure > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,305,821 B1 - Document ID: US11305821B1 - Status: Granted - Kind: B1 - Application number: 17/194,405 - Filed: 2021-03-08 - Granted: 2022-04-19 - Earliest claimed: 2021-03-08 - Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Akinari Suzaki; Atsushi Minochi; Tomoyuki Kato; Shinichi Todaka; Hirofumi Takemoto; Yusuke Chigira - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11305821B1 ## CPC - B60Q 1/0035: {relative to the vehicle} - B62D 25/081: {Cowls (ventilating openings situated directly in front of the vehicle front window B60H1/28)} - B62D 25/12: Parts or details thereof (locks E05B, {E05B83/16; devices for holding open E05C17/00, e.g. while carrying oversize objects E05C17/042}; hinges E05D; counterbalancing means E05F; {checks, stops, buffers E05F5/00; } springs, {e.g. pneumatic springs} F16F) - B62D 35/001: {For commercial vehicles or tractor-trailer combinations, e.g. caravans} - B62D 65/16: the sub-units or components being exterior fittings, e.g. bumpers, lights, wipers {, exhausts} - F21S 41/26: Elongated lenses - F21S 41/29: Attachment thereof (for achieving variable light distribution F21S41/63) - F21S 41/63: by acting on refractors, filters or transparent cover plates - B60Q: ARRANGEMENT OF SIGNALLING OR LIGHTING DEVICES, THE MOUNTING OR SUPPORTING THEREOF OR CIRCUITS THEREFOR, FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL - B62D: MOTOR VEHICLES; TRAILERS (steering, or guiding on a desired track, of agricultural machines or implements A01B69/00; wheels, castors, axles, increasing wheel adhesion B60B; vehicle tyres, tyre inflation or tyre changing B60C; connections between vehicles of a train or the like B60D; vehicles for use on rail and road, amphibious or convertible vehicles B60F; suspension arrangements B60G; heating, cooling, ventilating or other air treating devices B60H; windows, windscreens, non-fixed roofs, doors or similar devices, protective coverings for vehicles not in use B60J; propulsion plant arrangements, auxiliary drives, transmissions, controls, instrumentation or dashboards B60K; electric equipment or propulsion of electrically-propelled vehicles B60L; power supply for electrically-propelled vehicles B60M; passenger accommodation not otherwise provided for B60N; adaptations for load transportation or to carry special loads or objects B60P; arrangement of signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor, for vehicles in general B60Q; vehicles, vehicle fittings or vehicle parts not otherwise provided for B60R; servicing, cleaning, repairing, supporting, lifting, or manoeuvring, not otherwise provided for, B60S; brake arrangements, brake control systems or parts thereof B60T; air-cushion vehicles B60V; motor-cycles, accessories therefor B62J, B62K; testing of vehicles G01M) - F21S: NON-PORTABLE LIGHTING DEVICES; SYSTEMS THEREOF; VEHICLE LIGHTING DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLE EXTERIORS ## Abstract A front vehicle body structure includes a windshield and a lighting body unit provided beside and along an end surface of the windshield in a vehicle width direction. The lighting body unit has a lighting body and an outer lens that is disposed along the end surface of the windshield and transmits light from the lighting body. A gap is provided between the windshield and the outer lens. The outer lens has a front surface portion facing a front side of a vehicle, and a side surface portion extending toward a rear side of the vehicle from an end of the front surface portion on the windshield side. A chamfered portion is provided at an outside corner portion formed by the front surface portion and the side surface portion. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A front vehicle body structure of a vehicle, comprising: a windshield, wherein the windshield is a front glass disposed at a front side of the vehicle in a front-rear direction of the vehicle; and a lighting body unit provided beside and along an end surface of the windshield in a width direction of the vehicle, wherein the lighting body unit has a lighting body and an outer lens that is disposed along the end surface of the windshield and transmits light from the lighting body, a gap is provided between the windshield and the outer lens, the outer lens has a front surface portion facing frontward in the front-rear direction of the vehicle, and a side surface portion extending toward a rear side of the vehicle in the front-rear direction of the vehicle from an end of the front surface portion on the windshield side, and a chamfered portion is provided at an outside corner portion formed by the front surface portion and the side surface portion, and a front side surface of the chamfered portion faces toward the gap. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The front vehicle body structure according to claim 1, wherein at least part of the chamfered portion is provided so as to protrude toward the front side of the vehicle from a fictitious line drawn along a surface of the windshield to the outer lens. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The front vehicle body structure according to claim 1, wherein a depth of the gap in the front-rear direction of the vehicle is larger than a width of the gap in the width direction of the vehicle. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The front vehicle body structure according to claim 1, further comprising a lip portion supporting the windshield on a vehicle body, wherein the lip portion is provided so as to be spaced from the outer lens. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The front vehicle body structure according to claim 1, wherein a length along the front surface portion from a windshield-side end of the front surface portion to a fictitious vertex at which an extension line from the front surface portion and an extension line from the side surface portion intersect each other is 3 mm or less, and a length along the side surface portion from a front end of the side surface portion to the fictitious vertex is 5 mm or less. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The front vehicle body structure according to claim 1, wherein the chamfered portion is connected to each of the front surface portion and the side surface portion at a substantially same angle. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The front vehicle body structure according to claim 1, wherein the side surface portion extends substantially in parallel to the gap in the front-rear direction of the vehicle.