US 11,479,194 B2Granted

Vehicle front structure

AssigneeMazda Motor Corporation

InventorsMakoto Aizawa, Tetsuo Nagata, Ryosuke Kawafune, Yuta Mishima

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Abstract

A vehicle front structure that absorbs a shock load applied to immediately under a front grille by using a structure at a position higher than a bumper beam as a support. The vehicle front structure includes a shock absorbing member at an interior of a bumper face below a front grille. The shock absorbing member includes a load receiving portion that receives a load, an abutting portion abutting against a structure above a bumper beam during receding of the shock absorbing member, an upper-side connecting portion connecting the load receiving portion and the abutting portion, a locking portion deformed while being locked to the bumper beam during receding of the shock absorbing member, and a lower-side connecting portion connecting the load receiving and locking portions. A bending facilitating portion extending in the vehicle width direction is formed on the side of a rear portion of the upper-side connecting portion.

Claims15

Dependent claims

A vehicle front structure comprising:

a shock absorbing member at an interior of a bumper face near an upper portion of the bumper face, the shock absorbing member being configured to absorb a load from a diagonally upper front side, and the shock absorbing member being disposed at the interior of the bumper face below a front grille,
the shock absorbing member comprising:
a load receiving portion configured to receive a load;
an abutting portion abutting against a structure above a bumper beam at a time of receding of the shock absorbing member;
an upper-side connecting portion connecting the load receiving portion and the abutting portion;
a locking portion deformed while being locked to the bumper beam at the time of receding of the shock absorbing member;
and
a lower-side connecting portion connecting the load receiving portion and the locking portion,
wherein a bending facilitating portion extending in a vehicle width direction is configured on a side of a rear portion of the upper-side connecting portion.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/063,531Filed 5 Oct 2020
Priority: JP JP2019-19129518 Oct 2019
Published: US 2021/0114538 A122 Apr 2021
Granted: 25 Oct 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

B60R 19/12
Formed from more than one section in a side-by-side arrangement: vertically spaced
B60R 19/18
Bumpers, i.e. impact receiving or absorbing members for protecting vehicles or fending off blows from other vehicles or objects: characterised by…
B60R 19/14
Formed from more than one section in a side-by-side arrangement: having folding parts
B60R 19/50
Combined with, or convertible into, other devices or objects, e.g. bumpers combined with road brushes, bumpers convertible into beds: with lights…