Automobile body structure
AssigneeMazda Motor Corporation
InventorOsamu Matsuura
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Abstract
An automobile body structure has a closed cross-section structure formed by a lower face of a rear floor panel of a body floor and a rear frame joined to the lower face of the rear floor panel and extended in the longitudinal direction of the body on either side thereof, and another closed cross-section structure formed by a lower face of a front floor panel of the body floor and a front frame joined to the lower face of the front floor panel and extended in the longitudinal direction of the body. The rear frame is joined at its forward extension to a side sill of the body forward of a rear wheelhouse. The front frame is joined at its rearward extension to the portion where the forward extension of the rear frame is joined to the side sill.
Claims13
An automobile body structure comprising a first pair of closed cross-section structures formed by a lower face of a rear floor panel of a body floor and a pair of rear frame members, each having a forward extension, joined to said lower face of said rear floor panel, each of said first pair of closed cross-section structures extending in the longitudinal direction of the body on a respective side thereof, and a second pair of closed cross-section structures formed by a lower face of a front floor panel of said body floor and a pair of front frame members, each having a rearward extension, joined to said lower face of said front floor panel, each of said second pair of closed cross-section structures extending in the longitudinal direction of the body on a respective side thereof, each of said rear frame members being joined at the forward extension thereof to a respective side sill at a respective side portion of said body floor forward of a respective rear wheelhouse, each of said rearward extensions of said front frame members having a first portion vertically overlapping with a respective forward extension of a rear frame member and joined thereto and a second portion directly joined to said respective side sill substantially in front of the joint between said respective forward extension of a rear frame member and said respective side sill.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.