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US 11,529,999 B2Granted
Vehicle
AssigneesToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Subaru Corporation
InventorsTadashi Itoh, Shinya Kamimura, Tatsunari Imazato
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Abstract
A vehicle may include: a roof; a back door; a pillar provided next to the back door, having a tubular shape, and extending slantingly downward and backward from the roof; a vertical member provided below the pillar, extending along a vertical direction, and connected to the pillar from below; and a reinforcing member provided inside the pillar at a connection between the pillar and the vertical member and joined to the pillar.
Claims2
A vehicle comprising:
- a roof;
- a back door;
- a pillar provided next to the back door, having a tubular shape, and extending slantingly downward and backward from the roof;
- a vertical member provided below the pillar, extending along a vertical direction, and connected to the pillar from below the pillar;
- and
- a reinforcing member provided inside the pillar at a connection between the pillar and the vertical member and joined to the pillar, wherein
- an inner surface of the pillar includes a ceiling surface and a floor surface, the reinforcing member comprises:
- a top plate extending along and joined to the ceiling surface;
- a side plate extending downward from at least one of a front end and a rear end of the top plate;
- and
- a flange extending from the side plate along the floor surface, and joined to the floor surface,
- the reinforcing member comprises an end that is not joined to the pillar, the end being on an outer side of the reinforcing member in a width direction of the vehicle, and
- the top plate and the side plate are stepped at the end of the reinforcing member.
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A vehicle comprising:
- a roof;
- a back door;
- a pillar provided next to the back door, having a tubular shape, and extending slantingly downward and backward from the roof;
- a vertical member provided below the pillar, extending along a vertical direction, and connected to the pillar from below the pillar;
- and
- a reinforcing member provided inside the pillar at a connection between the pillar and the vertical member and joined to the pillar, wherein
- an inner surface of the pillar includes a ceiling surface and a floor surface,
- the reinforcing member comprises:
- a top plate extending along and joined to the ceiling surface;
- a side plate extending downward from at least one of a front end and a rear end of the top plate;
- and
- a flange extending from the side plate along the floor surface, and joined to the floor surface,
- the reinforcing member comprises a first plate portion extending upward from the top plate,
- the pillar comprises an upper plate constituting the ceiling surface and a lower plate constituting the floor surface,
- the upper plate comprises a second plate portion extending along the first plate portion,
- the lower plate comprises a third plate portion extending along the first plate portion, and
- the first plate portion, the second plate portion, and the third plate portion are joined to each other.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.