Vehicle front structure
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsTakehiro Kondo, Yosuke Shoji, Wataru Tsuboi
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Abstract
A vehicle front structure includes: a front side-frame extending in a vehicle front-rear direction; and a lower member extending in the vehicle front-rear direction at a position outer in a vehicle width direction than the front side-frame, wherein a front end of the front side-frame and a front end of the lower member are coupled with each other, an outer end in the vehicle width direction of the front side-frame is inclined so as to be positioned outer in the vehicle width direction toward a front of a vehicle, and an inner end in the vehicle width direction of the lower member extends in the vehicle front-rear direction, without being inclined inward in the vehicle width direction toward the front of the vehicle.
Claims3
A vehicle front structure comprising:
- a front side-frame extending in a vehicle front-rear direction;
- a lower member extending in the vehicle front-rear direction at a position outer in a vehicle width direction than the front side-frame;
- and
- a bracket coupled to a front end of the front side-frame and a front end of the lower member, wherein
- the front end of the front side-frame and the front end of the lower member are coupled with each other,
- an outer end in the vehicle width direction of the front side-frame is inclined so as to be positioned outer in the vehicle width direction toward a front of a vehicle body, and
- an inner end in the vehicle width direction of the lower member extends in the vehicle front-rear direction, without being inclined inward in the vehicle width direction toward the front of the vehicle body,
- the lower member is coupled to both the front side-frame and the bracket,
- the lower member includes:
- a first flange extending upward from a top of the front end thereof;
- a second flange extending outward in the vehicle width direction from the front end thereof;
- and
- a third flange extending outward in the vehicle width direction from a bottom of the front end thereof,
- wherein the first flange and the third flange are coupled to the front side-frame and the second flange is coupled to the bracket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.