US 6,598,933 B2Granted

Vehicle front body structure

AssigneeHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsYoshinori Taguchi, Kenichiro Soyama, Masuhiro Saito, Fumiko Saito

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Abstract

A vehicle front body structure including a framework member provided at a front end of an upper member which extends forwardly from a front pillar closest to a driver's seat. The framework member includes an inclined portion which extends forward over and beyond a front wheel, and a vertical portion which extends from a front end of the inclined portion in such a manner as to be suspended in front of the front wheel. When, in a collision between vehicles, a front side member of an oncoming vehicle collides with own vehicle at a position outside a front side member in a vehicle widthwise direction, a resulting impact is alleviated by the framework member, precluding the front pillar from being exerted with an excessive amount of impact force.

Claims4

Dependent claims

A front body structure of a vehicle having a pair of right and left front wheels and a pair of right and left front pillars, said front body structure comprising:

a pair of left and right side members disposed inside the front wheels and extending forwardly from a passenger compartment;
an upper member extending forwardly from one of the front pillars;
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a framework member mounted to a forward end of said upper member, the framework member having an inclined portion sloping downward from the upper member in a forward direction and serving as an extension of the upper member extending forwardly over and beyond one of the front wheels that is closer to the front pillar from which the upper member extends, and a suspended vertical portion extending substantially vertically downward from a forward end of said inclined portion and suspended in front of the respective front wheel.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.