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US 5,137,325 AGranted
Side door apparatus for vehicle
AssigneeMazda Motor Corporation
InventorTakeji Ohya
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Abstract
This invention relates to a side door structure for a vehicle, consisting of front and rear doors. The side door structure includes a front impact bar disposed in the front door, and extending in the back-and-forth direction of a vehicle body, and a rear impact bar which is disposed in the rear door to be inclined obliquely upward toward the rear portion of the vehicle body, and can be in contact with a rear portion of the front impact bar while being offset vertically when the rear door is moved forward.
Claims14
A side door structure for a vehicle, comprising:
- a front door disposed on a front portion;
- a rear door disposed on a rear portion;
- a front impact bar disposed in said front door, and extending in a back-and-forth direction of a vehicle body;
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- a rear impact bar disposed in said rear door, a central longitudinal axis of which is inclined upward toward the rear portion of the vehicle body, and on the occurrence of a rear end collision, said rear impact bar can contact said front impact bar and have the rear end of said impact bar raised vertically when said rear door is moved forward, the central axis of the rear impact bar being offset vertically from a central longitudinal axis of the front impact bar by a predetermined distance in height.
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