US 2010/0301630 A1Published application

Vehicle body side structure

AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.

InventorsYoshikatsu Ohta, Yuta Urushiyama, Hirokazu Kobayashi

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Abstract

A vehicle body side structure in which a load acting from the front of the vehicle body is efficiently transferred to a door beam, whereby the weight of a side sill is reduced. A vehicle body side structure includes a front door provided to a front vehicle body opening via a front hinge, a front door beam provided to the front door and coupled at the front end to the front hinge, and an interaction for transferring a load to a rear part of the vehicle body, the interaction being provided to the side of the front hinge facing the front of the vehicle body. The front hinge includes a front attachment part provided to the vehicle body, and a front coupling part rotatably supported on the front attachment part and coupled with the front door beam. The front attachment part has a front bearing for bearing a load acting from the interaction.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A vehicle body side structure comprising:

a door being capable of opening and closing actions via a hinge relative to an opening formed in a vehicle body;
a door beam provided to an inside part of the door and extending longitudinally of the vehicle body, the door beam having one end coupled with the hinge;
and
a load-transmitting member, provided at a front part of the hinge, for transferring a load acted from a front part of the vehicle body toward a rear part of the vehicle body via the hinge,
wherein the hinge includes an attachment part provided to the vehicle body, and a coupling part rotatably supported on the attachment part and coupled with the door beam, the attachment part having an attachment part body provided to the vehicle body, and a bearing, extending from the attachment part body along a rear part of the load-transmitting member, for bearing a load acted from the load-transmitting member.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.