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US 5,586,799 AGranted
Upper body structure of a vehicle
AssigneeMazda Motor Corporation
InventorsNorihiko Kanemitsu, Manabu Tamura, Koh Nakao, Yukari Kato, Katsumi Ejima, Noboru Yoshii
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Abstract
An upper body structure for a car body includes a hollow front pillar, which includes inner and outer front pillar panels shaped so as to form a column space in the front pillar. The front pillar is connected to an upper portion of a dash panel by a gusset configuration.
Claims7
An upper body structure for a car body comprising:
- inner and outer front pillar panels forming a hollow front pillar having a vertical lower section and an inclined upper section which is bent rearward from a top of said vertical lower section;
- a reinforcement extending inside of the hollow front pillar from the vertical lower section to the inclined upper section for structurally reinforcing a part of the hollow front pillar, said reinforcement including a front inner surface portion, a side wall inner surface portion and a rear inner surface portion;
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- a gusset, disposed entirely inside of a space defined by said front inner surface portion, said side wall inner surface portion, said rear inner surface portion and an outer surface of the inner front pilar panel, having a wall extending in said space approximately vertically so that said wall abuts with said rear inner surface portion in said vertical lower section and said front inner surface portion in said inclined upper section so as to divide the space into front and rear sections.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.