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US 11,590,816 B2Granted
Hub bracket structure
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsHiroyuki Urabe, Takayuki Toyoshima, Toshiaki Matsuzawa
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Abstract
A hub bracket structure includes a hub bracket that connects a trailing arm and a hub carrier, wherein the hub bracket includes a bracket body that includes a mounting surface mounted with the hub carrier, and a rear connector that extends from the bracket body toward the trailing arm behind a ground contact point of a rear wheel, and the rear connector is extended to a position to overlap with a rear surface of the trailing arm in a front-rear direction and is joined to the rear surface of the trailing arm.
Claims4
A hub bracket structure comprising:
- a trailing arm that extends in a vehicle front-rear direction, with one end thereof axially supported by a vehicle body in a manner swingable up and down;
- a hub carrier that rotatably supports a wheel;
- and
- a hub bracket that connects the trailing arm and the hub carrier, wherein
- the hub bracket includes
- a bracket body that includes a mounting surface mounted with the hub carrier, and
- a rear connector that extends from the bracket body toward the trailing arm behind a ground contact point of the wheel,
- the rear connector is extended to a position to overlap with a rear surface of the trailing arm in a front-rear direction and is joined to the rear surface of the trailing arm,
- the hub bracket further includes a front connector gradually approaching the trailing arm as extending forward from a front portion of the bracket body and extending to arcuately curve so as to be convex toward the trailing arm, and
- a tip of the front connector is joined to the trailing arm.
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