Vehicle side structure
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTetsuo NURUKI, Takehiro Ito, Norihiro Murashige
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Abstract
A door impact beam is disposed in a rear side door and extends along a vehicle front-rear direction. A rear frame body is made by die casting, and includes a lower side frame portion constituting at least a part of a lower portion of a rear side frame portion that constitutes a rear side door opening portion, a vertical wall portion erected from the lower side frame portion and disposed at a position overlapping an end portion of the door impact beam in a longitudinal direction in a vehicle side view, and a rear wheel house portion provided rearward of the lower side frame portion in the vehicle front-rear direction.
Claims4
A vehicle side structure comprising:
- a door impact beam disposed in a rear side door that opens and closes a rear side door opening portion and extending along a vehicle front-rear direction;
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- a rear frame body made by die casting, the rear frame body including a lower side frame portion constituting at least a part of a lower portion of a rear side frame portion that constitutes the rear side door opening portion, a vertical wall portion erected from the lower side frame portion and disposed at a position overlapping an end portion of the door impact beam in a longitudinal direction in a vehicle side view, and a rear wheel house portion provided rearward of the lower side frame portion in the vehicle front-rear direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.