Jacking point structure
AssigneeMeidensha Corporation
InventorsYoichi Uematsu, Yoshinori Sugahara, Hiroaki Tanaka
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Abstract
A jacking point structure disposed to project from a bottom surface of a vehicle and structured to be jacked up by a jacking device to provided. The jacking point structure includes a bottom including a jacking point surface structured to be lifted up first by the jacking device, and a partial contact surface disposed around the jacking point surface. The bottom of the jacking point structure may further include a curved surface between the jacking point surface and the partial contact surface.
Claims9
A jacking point structure disposed to project from a bottom surface of a vehicle and structured to be jacked up by a jacking device, the jacking point structure comprising:
- a bottom including:
- a jacking point surface structured to be lifted up first by the jacking device;
- and
- a partial contact surface disposed around the jacking point surface, wherein:
- the bottom of the jacking point structure includes a recessed portion having an inversed U shape when viewed at a cross section;
- the jacking point surface is composed of a bottom surface of the recessed portion;
- the partial contact surface is composed of an inclined inner side surface of the recessed portion;
- each of the jacking point surface and the partial contact surface is flat;
- the bottom of the jacking point structure includes a curved surface between the jacking point surface and the partial contact surface;
- the curved surface has a curvature radius set such that the curved surface is approximately flat;
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- the partial contact surface is structured such that the jacking device comes out of contact with at least a portion of the jacking point surface and comes into oblique partial contact with the partial contact surface when the vehicle is maximally inclined during jacking-up of the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.