Vehicle-body lower structure of vehicle
AssigneeMazda Motor Corporation
InventorsIppei KURODA, Masaya NISHIMOTO, Shota NAKAYAMA
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Abstract
A side sill that is disposed in a lower part and on an outer side in a vehicle width direction of a vehicle and has a side sill inner and a side sill outer which collaborate with each other to form a closed cross section extending in a front-rear direction of the vehicle; a wheel that is located ahead of the side sill outer; an outer-side reinforcement member that has a shape extending along a front face part and a side face part in a front end part of the side sill outer and is joined to the front end part from inside the closed cross section; and an inner-side reinforcement member that diagonally couples a front face part and a side face part in a front end part of the side sill inner to each other.
Claims9
A vehicle-body lower structure of a vehicle comprising:
- a side sill that is disposed in a lower part and on an outer side in a vehicle width direction of a vehicle and has a side sill inner structure located on an inner side in the vehicle width direction and a side sill outer structure located on the outer side in the vehicle width direction, the side sill inner structure and the side sill outer structure collaborating with each other to form a closed cross section that extends in a front-rear direction of the vehicle;
- a wheel that is located ahead of the side sill outer structure in the front-rear direction of the vehicle;
- an outer-side reinforcement structure that has a shape extending along a front face part and a side face part in a front end part of the side sill outer structure and is joined to the front end part from the closed cross section side;
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- an inner-side reinforcement structure that diagonally couples a front face part and a side face part in a front end part of the side sill inner structure to each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.