Vehicle door structure
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakahiro Suzaki
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Abstract
A vehicle door structure includes: a door having a door body defining a closed section with a door inner panel and a door outer panel; an engaging member configured to hold the door in a closed and stopped state by engaging with an engaged member; and a load transmitting member configured to, when a load in a direction perpendicular to a design surface on a vehicle cabin outer side of the door outer panel is input, transmit the load toward a base end side of the engaging member and apply a load to the base end side of the engaging member in an engagement direction of the engaging member with the engaged member.
Claims10
A vehicle door structure comprising:
- a door having a door body defining a closed section with a door inner panel and a door outer panel and configured to open and close a door opening of a vehicle;
- an engaging member provided on an outer edge portion of the door body and configured to hold the door in a closed and stopped state by engaging with an engaged member, each of the engaging member and the engaged member being a part of a door locking mechanism;
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- a load transmitting member configured to, when a load in a direction perpendicular to a design surface on a vehicle cabin outer side of the door outer panel is input, transmit the load toward a base end side of the engaging member and apply a load to the base end side of the engaging member in an engagement direction of the engaging member with the engaged member, the load transmitting member being provided on an interior of the door body such that a part of the load transmitting member is disposed on the base end side of the engaging member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.