Roof Structure of a Vehicular Body
AssigneeNissan Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsJun Watanabe, Yorimasa Tsubota
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Abstract
There is provided a roof structure of a vehicular body. The roof structure includes right and left side roof rails disposed on opposing sides of the vehicular body. The roof structure further includes a plurality of roof reinforcements installed in a spaced-apart relationship between the side roof rails and extending along a lateral direction across the vehicular body and a roof panel attached to the roof reinforcements, wherein at least one roof reinforcement of the plurality of roof reinforcements is a first roof reinforcement having a maximum width portion wider than a closest relative spacing between the first roof reinforcement and an adjacent roof reinforcement of the plurality of roof reinforcements on a first side of the first roof reinforcement.
Claims19
A roof structure of a vehicular body, comprising:
- right and left side roof rails disposed on opposing sides of the vehicular body;
- a plurality of roof reinforcements installed in a spaced-apart relationship between the side roof rails and extending along a lateral direction across the vehicular body;
- and
- a roof panel attached to the roof reinforcements,
- wherein at least one roof reinforcement of the plurality of roof reinforcements is a first roof reinforcement having a maximum width portion wider than a closest relative spacing between the first roof reinforcement and an adjacent roof reinforcement of the plurality of roof reinforcements on a first side of the first roof reinforcement.
A roof structure of a vehicular body, comprising:
- right and left means for supporting a roof disposed along right and left sides of the vehicular body;
- a plurality of means for reinforcing the roof installed in a spaced-apart relationship between the first and second support means, each extending along a lateral direction of the vehicular body;
- and
- a roof panel attached to the roof reinforcement means,
- wherein at least one roof reinforcement means of the plurality of roof reinforcement means is a first roof reinforcement means having a maximum width portion wider than a closest relative spacing between the first roof reinforcement means and an adjacent roof reinforcement means of the plurality of roof reinforcement means on a first side of the first roof reinforcement means.
A method of forming a roof structure of a vehicular body, comprising:
- providing right and left side roof rails disposed on opposing sides of the vehicular body;
- disposing a plurality of roof reinforcements laterally across the vehicular body between the side roof rails and in a spaced apart relationship along a length of the vehicular body;
- attaching a roof panel to the roof reinforcements, and
- providing at least one roof reinforcement of the plurality of roof reinforcements as a first roof reinforcement having a maximum width portion wider than a closest relative spacing between the first roof reinforcement and an adjacent roof reinforcement of the plurality of roof reinforcements on a first side of the first roof reinforcement.
A roof structure of a vehicular body comprising:
- a plurality of roof reinforcements disposed between a pair of opposing side roof rails of the vehicular body wherein the plurality of roof reinforcements have a greater relative width adjacent a front of the vehicular body than adjacent a rear of the vehicular body and a smaller relative spacing between the plurality of roof reinforcements adjacent the front of the vehicular body than the rear of the vehicular body.
A roof reinforcement system installed in a spaced-apart relationship between right and left roof rails disposed on opposing sides of a vehicular body and extending along a lateral direction across a vehicular body, comprising:
- an expanded portion of the roof reinforcement system formed in a central portion along the lateral direction of the vehicular body wherein the expanded portion is arranged on a front side along the front-rear direction of the vehicular body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.