Vehicle body construction
AssigneeNissan Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorYoshio Matsuno
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Abstract
A vehicle body construction comprises a dash panel defining a passenger compartment, a car heater core having a casing which is securely connected to the dash panel and located within the passenger compartment, side panels formed connected to the dash panel, and an elongate knee restraining or protection member securely connected to at least one of the side panels and to the car heater core casing, and so positioned as to be strikable with the knees of a vehicle occupant during a vehicle collision, thereby rendering unnecessary various support members for supporting the knee restraining member onto the dash panel.
Claims8
A vehicle body construction, comprising:
- a dash panel defining an engine compartment and a passenger compartment at the opposite sides thereof;
- a car heater core having a casing which is securely connected to said dash panel and located within said passenger compartment;
- side panels formed at the opposite side sections of said dash panel, respectively;
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- an elongate knee restraining member so disposed as to be strikable with knees of a vehicle occupant during a vehicle collision, said knee restraining member being securely connected at one end thereof with one of said side panels and at the other end thereof with said car heater core casing.
A vehicle body construction, comprising:
- a dash panel defining an engine compartment and a passenger compartment at the both sides thereof;
- a car heater core having a casing which is securely connected to said dash panel and located within said passenger compartment;
- side panels formed at the opposite side sections of said dash panel, respectively;
- first and second elongate knee restraining members which are so disposed as to be strikable with the knees of vehicle occupants during a vehicle collision, each of said first and second knee restraining members being securely connected at its one end with one of said side panels and at the other end thereof with said heater core casing, said first and second restraining members being located to be separate from each other to form a space therebetween;
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- a car heater control finisher operatively connected to said car heater core and having a board section, said board section being located to cover the opposite ends of the first and second knee restraining members and said space formed therebetween.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.