Vehicle frame structure
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasafumi SATO
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Abstract
A vehicle frame structure that includes a bumper reinforcement that includes a middle constituent portion that is positioned further toward a vehicle lower side than an upper wall portion configuring an upper surface of a upper constituent member, that is positioned further toward the vehicle lower side than a lower wall portion configuring a lower surface of a lower constituent member, and that is provided with load transmission inhibitors that inhibit load transmission from the middle constituent portion to a shock absorbing components in a case in which a load has been input to the bumper reinforcement from an opposite side from a shock absorbing components side.
Claims6
A vehicle frame structure comprising:
- a bumper reinforcement that is disposed at a vehicle front and rear direction end portion of a vehicle body and that extends along a vehicle width direction;
- and
- shock absorbing components that extend along a vehicle front and rear direction from vehicle width direction end portion sides of the bumper reinforcement toward a vehicle front and rear direction central portion side of the vehicle body, that are configured to have a closed cross-sectional structure, and that become compressively deformed by input of a load equal to or greater than a predetermined value from the bumper reinforcement,
- wherein
- the bumper reinforcement includes:
- an upper constituent member that extends along the vehicle width direction, that is disposed in such a way that positions of its vehicle width direction end portion sides correspond to upper portion sides of the shock absorbing components, and that is formed in a hollow shape,
- a lower constituent member that extends along the vehicle width direction, that is disposed in such a way that positions of its vehicle width direction end portion sides correspond to lower portion sides of the shock absorbing components, that is disposed at an interval apart from, and on a vehicle lower side of, the upper constituent member, and that is formed in a hollow shape, and
- a middle constituent portion that is positioned further toward the vehicle lower side than an upper wall portion configuring an upper surface of the upper constituent member, that is positioned further toward the vehicle lower side than a lower wall portion configuring a lower surface of the lower constituent member, and that is provided with load transmission inhibitors that inhibit load transmission from the middle constituent portion to the shock absorbing components in a case in which a load has been input to the bumper reinforcement from an opposite side from a shock absorbing components side.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.