Vehicle structure
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorTakayuki YAMADA
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Abstract
To provide a vehicle structure capable of effectively preventing peeling at a welding start portion of a laser welding portion that joins members, even in a case where an external force such as a vehicle collision is applied. A vehicle structure includes a configuration in which a peripheral edge of an outer panel member is joined, via laser welding portions, to an outer member and an inner member that form a skeleton member as a vehicle body member. The outer panel member includes, in a vicinity region of a welding start portion at which laser welding for forming the laser welding portions is started, a cutout portion that extends in parallel with the laser welding portions and 50b and cuts out the outer panel member.
Claims6
A vehicle structure, in which a peripheral edge of a third member is joined, via a laser welding portion, to a first member and a second member forming a vehicle body member,
- wherein the third member includes, in a vicinity region of a welding start portion at which laser welding for forming the laser welding portion is started, a cutout portion that extends in parallel with the laser welding portion and cuts out the third member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.