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US 11,697,329 B2Granted
Vehicle door structure
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsAtsushi Hasegawa, Yoshihiro Fujimura, Yasuhisa Egawa, Takuro Nishida, Yumi Saito
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Abstract
A vehicle door structure includes: a horizontal beam arranged inside a door of a vehicle to extend in a vehicle front-rear direction; and a vertical beam arranged inside the door to extend in a vehicle up-down direction, wherein a vehicle front-side end and a vehicle rear-side end of the horizontal beam are each fixed to a door frame, and the vertical beam is fixed in a cantilever fashion to an intermediate portion of the horizontal beam in an axial direction thereof.
Claims10
A vehicle door structure comprising:
- a horizontal beam arranged inside a door of a vehicle to extend in a vehicle front-rear direction;
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- a vertical beam arranged inside the door to extend in a vehicle up-down direction, wherein
- a vehicle front-side end and a vehicle rear-side end of the horizontal beam are each fixed to a door frame,
- the vertical beam includes an upper vertical beam extending upward from the horizontal beam and a lower vertical beam extending downward from the horizontal beam,
- the upper vertical beam and the lower vertical beam each are fixed in a cantilever fashion to an intermediate portion of the horizontal beam in an axial direction thereof,
- the upper vertical beam and the lower vertical beam each includes a beam body portion and a coupling portion provided at an end of the beam body portion,
- the coupling portion forms an L-cross sectional shape, and includes a flat plate portion and a bent portion integrally formed with the flat plate portion and bent in the vehicle up-down direction substantially perpendicularly from the outer end of the flat plate portion in the vehicle width direction,
- a dimension of the flat plate portion in the vehicle front-rear direction is larger than a dimension of the end of the beam body portion in the vehicle front-rear direction,
- the flat plate portion is joined to an upper face and a lower face of the horizontal beam, respectively, and
- the bent portion is joined to an outer side face of the horizontal beam in the vehicle width direction.
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