Upper vehicle-body structure of vehicle
AssigneeMazda Motor Corporation
InventorsKatsuyoshi ISHIGAME, Yuichi SUGIMURA, Sakayu TERADA, Keizo KAWASAKI
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Abstract
A pair of right-and-left roof rails, a roof panel provided between the roof rails, a roof reinforcement extending in a vehicle width direction below the roof panel, a center pillar, and a gusset joined to an end portion, in the vehicle width direction, of the roof reinforcement are provided. Further, a node-shaped plate member is provided inside the roof rail at a position which overlaps the roof reinforcement longitudinally and vertically. Accordingly, buckling of a portion of the roof reinforcement which is located in the vicinity of a roof side can be restrained.
Claims15
An upper vehicle-body structure of a vehicle, comprising:
- a pair of right-and-left roof rails provided at right-and-left both end portions of a roof portion of the vehicle and extending in a vehicle longitudinal direction, the roof rail having a panel joint portion having a recess-shaped cross section where plural panels are overlapped vertically and joined together at an inward end portion, in a vehicle width direction, of the roof rail;
- a roof panel provided between the pair of right-and-left roof rails;
- a roof reinforcement extending in the vehicle width direction below the roof panel;
- a center pillar, an upper portion of which is joined to the roof rail at a position which overlaps the roof reinforcement in the vehicle longitudinal direction, the center pillar extending downward from the upper portion thereof;
- a gusset joined to an end portion, in the vehicle width direction, of the roof reinforcement;
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- a node-shaped plate member provided inside the roof rail at a position which overlaps the roof reinforcement longitudinally and vertically.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.