Front structure for a motor vehicle
AssigneesToyota Motor East Japan, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsEikyo BOU, Isao SOUTOME, Masatoshi ABE
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Abstract
A vehicle front structure having a bumper reinforcement arranged in the vehicle width direction at the front part of a pair of front side members is provided. A pair of extensions is provided to the bumper reinforcement at positions outside of the front side members in the vehicle width direction. Each extension is provided with a front protrusion protruding ahead of the bumper reinforcement at positions outside of the front side member on the front side, and a rear protrusion protruding backward on the rear side. At the time of a small overlap frontal crash, loads imposed on the extension are transmitted to and absorbed by the front side member by the rear protrusion via the front protrusion.
Claims17
A vehicle front structure, comprising:
- a pair of front side members arranged on both sides of a vehicle in a vehicle width direction and extending in a vehicle front-rear direction;
- a bumper reinforcement arranged in the vehicle width direction at a front part of the front side members;
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- extensions of the bumper reinforcement arranged at positions outside of the front side members in the vehicle width direction, wherein
- each extension has, on its front side, a front protrusion protruding forward from the bumper reinforcement at a position outside of where each of the pair of front side members is arranged, and on its rear side,
- a rear protrusion protruding backward from the bumper reinforcement at a position outside of where each of the pair of front side members is arranged, and
- loads imposed on the extension at positions outside of the front side member in the vehicle width direction at the time of a small overlap frontal crash are transmitted to the front side member by the rear protrusion via the front protrusion of the extension.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.