Vehicle bumper structure
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorYoshitaka Hirose
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Abstract
A rear bumper includes a bumper central part configured to cover a rear end portion of a vehicle, a pair of bumper side parts configured to extend from both ends of the bumper central part toward respective wheel housings, a wheel arch portion disposed at an end of each of the bumper side parts, a flange formed integrally with an inner surface of each of the bumper side parts, and a wheel arch bracket disposed on the flange and configured to support fender components. The wheel arch bracket includes a component supporting portion configured to support the fender components, a flange mount portion disposed opposite to the component supporting portion and attached to the flange, and a plurality of vertical walls configured to extend from the component supporting portion toward the flange mount portion.
Claims7
A vehicle bumper structure comprising:
- a bumper central part configured to extend in a vehicle width direction to cover an end portion of a vehicle;
- a bumper side part configured to extend from an end of the bumper central part toward a wheel housing;
- a wheel arch portion disposed at an end of the bumper side part to face the wheel housing;
- a flange configured to protrude from an inner surface of the bumper side part, the flange being formed integrally with the bumper side part;
- and
- a wheel arch bracket disposed on the flange to extend in an up-and-down direction of the vehicle, the wheel arch bracket being configured to support fender components,
- wherein the wheel arch bracket includes
- a component supporting portion configured to support the fender components,
- a flange mount portion disposed opposite to the component supporting portion and attached to the flange.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.