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US 2022/0063731 A1Published application
Vehicle body structure
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
InventorsShota TSUBAKI, Kenichi WATANABE, Kazuya YASUI, Masatoshi YOSHIDA
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Abstract
A vehicle body structure includes a battery disposed in a lower central part of a vehicle body, a hollow side sill extending in a vehicle front-rear direction and disposed outside the battery in a vehicle width direction, and a reinforcing member configuring at least a part of a continuous tubular structure formed inside the side sill. The continuous tubular structure has a shape in which a plurality of octagons are continuously arranged as viewed from the vehicle width direction.
Claims14
A vehicle body structure comprising:
- a battery disposed in a lower central part of a vehicle body;
- a side sill extending in a vehicle front-rear direction and disposed outside the battery in a vehicle width direction, the side sill being hollow;
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- a reinforcing member configuring at least a part of a continuous tubular structure formed inside the side sill, wherein
- the continuous tubular structure has a shape in which a plurality of closed cross sections with polygonal shape are continuously arranged as viewed from the vehicle width direction.
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