Rear portion structure of vehicle
AssigneeMazda Motor Corporation
InventorYoshikazu Ide
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Abstract
A rear portion structure of a vehicle which can increase the coupling strength between rear side frames and a rear suspension cross member, and can reinforce the rear side frames. The vehicle rear portion structure includes a pair of right and left rear side frames arranged to extend along right and left side portions of a rear portion of a vehicle body, and with kick-up portions. A rear suspension cross member, has attaching portions attached to intermediate portions of the kick-up portions of the rear side frames, and which is arranged to extend in a direction substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the rear side frames.
Claims9
A rear portion structure of a vehicle having a multi-link rear suspension, comprising:
- a pair of right and left rear side frames extending along right and left side portions, respectively, of a rear portion of the vehicle, each side frame having a kick-up portion which is inclined upward toward a back of the vehicle;
- a rear suspension cross member having attaching portions attached to intermediate portions of said kick-up portions of said rear side frames, said rear suspension cross member extending in a direction substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of said rear side frames, wherein each of said attaching portions of said rear suspension cross member includes a forward and a backward arm portion integrated to form a longitudinal frame portion, and said longitudinal frame portion is integrally formed with said rear suspension cross member;
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- reinforcement brackets attaching said forward arm portions to said rear side, frames at almost the middle of the intermediate portions of said kick-up portions, said reinforcement brackets extending from said intermediate portion to a back portion of said kick-up portions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.