Front subframe structure of automobile
AssigneeMazda Motor Corporation
InventorKatsuyuki Komiya
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Abstract
A front subframe structure includes a pair of left and right side members extending in a vehicle front-rear direction, a center cross member of a closed cross-section structure extending in a vehicle-width direction to couple the a pair of left and right side members together, an inclined member having a pair of left and right inclined portions extending obliquely, in a plan view, outward in a vehicle-widthwise direction from a rear portion of a vehicle-widthwise middle portion of the center cross member, and a mount attaching portion of a powertrain mount housed in the center cross member and located behind a front edge of the center cross member and in front of a coupling portion between the inclined member and the center cross member.
Claims11
A front subframe structure of an automobile comprising:
- a pair of left and right side members extending in a vehicle front-rear direction;
- a cross member of a closed cross-section structure extending in a vehicle-width direction to couple the a pair of left and right side members together;
- an inclined member having a pair of left and right inclined portions extending obliquely, in a plan view, outward in a vehicle-widthwise direction and toward a rear of the vehicle from a rear portion of a vehicle-widthwise middle portion of the cross member;
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- an attaching portion of a powertrain mount housed in the cross member and located behind a front edge of the cross member and in front of a coupling portion between the inclined member and the cross member, wherein
- the attaching portion is formed of an expanded portion formed by expanding a vehicle-widthwise middle portion of the cross member rearward beyond rear edges of left and right side portions, and
- the expanded portion is coupled to the inclined member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.