Body of vehicle
AssigneesToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Subaru Corporation
InventorsKyosuke Kawase, Satoshi Ikeda
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Abstract
A body includes a center tunnel that extends in a front-rear direction of a vehicle, a floor panel that extends from the center tunnel to both sides of the vehicle in a right-left direction, a floor cross member that is provided on an upper face of the floor panel and that extends in the right-left direction of the vehicle, straddling the center tunnel, and a reinforcing member joined to an upper face of the center tunnel and to a front face of the floor cross member.
Claims7
A body of a vehicle, the body comprising:
- a center tunnel that extends in a front-rear direction of the vehicle;
- a floor panel that extends from the center tunnel to both sides of the vehicle in a right-left direction;
- a floor cross member that is provided on an upper face of the floor panel and that extends in the right-left direction of the vehicle, straddling the center tunnel;
- a reinforcing member joined to an upper face of the center tunnel and to a front face of the floor cross member;
- a forward tunnel reinforcement that extends in the front-rear direction of the vehicle and that is provided on a lower face of the center tunnel;
- a rearward tunnel reinforcement that extends in the front-rear direction of the vehicle and that is provided on the lower face of the center tunnel, the rearward tunnel reinforcement located rearward from the forward tunnel reinforcement;
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- an overlap portion in which the forward tunnel reinforcement and the rearward tunnel reinforcement overlap each other, the overlap portion provided downward from the floor cross member.
The body according to 1, wherein a rigidity of the forward tunnel reinforcement is higher than a rigidity of the rearward tunnel reinforcement.
The body according to 1, wherein a yield strength of a material making up the forward tunnel reinforcement is higher than a yield strength of a material making up the center tunnel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.