Vehicle door beam
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsNobuaki Kato, Taku Nagahama, Ryo Onaka, Ryosuke Tetsuka, Naoki Katsumata, Shohei Ohtsuka, Jiah Choi
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Abstract
A vehicle door beam is disclosed. The vehicle door beam includes: a beam body extending along a front-rear direction of the vehicle; and an inner side member disposed at a vehicle inner side of the beam body. The inner side member includes: a fixing part fixed to the beam body; and a non-fixing part not fixed to the beam body and being disposed at a position in front of the fixing part in the front-rear direction.
Claims13
A vehicle door beam disposed at a vehicle door of a vehicle, the vehicle door beam comprising:
- a beam body extending along a front-rear direction of the vehicle;
- and
- an inner side member disposed at a vehicle inner side of the beam body, the inner side member comprising:
- a fixing part fixed to the beam body;
- and
- a non-fixing part not fixed to the beam body and being disposed at a position in front of the fixing part in the front-rear direction,
- wherein the inner side member is formed with a flange part disposed on at least one of an upper side and a lower side of the beam body, and the non-fixing part is disposed at the flange part,
- wherein the non-fixing part is disposed to be continuous with the fixing part,
- wherein the vehicle door beam further comprises:
- an outer side member disposed at a vehicle outer side of the beam body, wherein the beam body is located between the inner side member and the outer side member in a width direction of the vehicle,
- wherein the inner side member is provided with a joining surface extending along the front-rear direction and joined with the outer side member, and the non-fixing part is disposed to be continuous with the joining surface.
A vehicle door beam disposed at a vehicle door of a vehicle, the vehicle door beam comprising:
- a beam body extending along a front-rear direction of the vehicle;
- and
- an inner side member disposed at a vehicle inner side of the beam body, the inner side member comprising:
- a fixing part fixed to the beam body;
- and
- a non-fixing part not fixed to the beam body and being disposed at a position in front of the fixing part in the front-rear direction,
- wherein the inner side member is formed with a flange part disposed on at least one of an upper side and a lower side of the beam body, and the non-fixing part is disposed at the flange part,
- wherein the beam body comprises:
- a front side intersection point intersecting a front pillar of the vehicle in a vehicle width direction;
- and
- a rear side intersection point intersecting a center pillar of the vehicle in the vehicle width direction,
- wherein the non-fixing part is disposed at a position in front of a middle position between the front side intersection point and the rear side intersection point.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.