Vehicle body structure
AssigneeMitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKousaku Uchida
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Abstract
A vehicle body structure comprises a first cross member and a second cross member disposed on a floor (11) between a side sill (12) provided at both sides of a vehicle body and a floor tunnel (14) provided in a longitudinal direction in middle of the vehicle body, and a third cross member having one end, a front edge, and a rear edge thereof connected to the side sill (12), the first cross member (15), and the second cross member (16), respectively, between the first cross member (15) and the second cross member (16). This enables an improvement in stiffness of the vehicle body against side impact efficiently by a simple reinforcing structure.
Claims8
A vehicle body structure comprising:
- a side sill portion provided at both sides of the vehicle body;
- a floor tunnel portion provided in a longitudinal direction in a middle of the vehicle body;
- a floor portion disposed between said side sill portion and said floor tunnel portion;
- a first cross member disposed on said floor portion, having one end thereof connected to said side sill portion and the other end thereof connected to said floor tunnel portion and supporting a front side of a seat;
- a second cross member provided in rear of the first cross member above said floor portion, having one end thereof connected to said side sill portion and the other end thereof connected to said floor tunnel portion and supporting a rear side of the seat;
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- a third cross member provided between said first cross member and said second cross member above said floor portion in substantially parallel, having one end thereof connected to said side sill portion, a front edge thereof connected to said first cross member, and a rear edge thereof connected to said second cross member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.