US 2017/0282978 A1Published application

Vehicle hood

AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)

InventorsMasatoshi YOSHIDA, Hiroko KASHIMA, Hideki ISHITOBI

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Abstract

Provided is a vehicle hood that allows a reduction in thickness of an outer panel while providing stiffness of the outer panel. A vehicle hood includes an outer panel, an inner panel, and a plurality of adhesive components. The inner panel has a plurality of beads. Each bead has a support part that supports each adhesive component. The adhesive components are provided on the support parts so as to be intermittently aligned along a specific direction. A support-part interval between the support parts adjacent to each other in an intersecting direction is smaller than an adhesive-component interval between the adhesive components adjacent to each other on the support parts.

Claims6

Dependent claims

A vehicle hood comprising:

an outer panel;
an inner panel disposed below the outer panel;
and
a plurality of adhesive components connecting the outer panel to the inner panel,
wherein:
the inner panel has a plurality of beads, the beads each having a shape extending along a specific direction and being disposed so as to be intermittently aligned along an intersecting direction intersecting with the specific direction;
each of the beads has a support pan that has a shape extending along the specific direction and supports each of the adhesive components at a position opposed to the outer panel;
the adhesive components are provided on the support parts so as to be intermittently aligned along the specific direction;
and
a support-part interval between the support parts adjacent to each other in the intersecting direction is smaller than an adhesive-component interval between the adhesive components adjacent to each other on each of the support parts.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.