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US 6,805,401 B2Granted
Vehicle floor structure
AssigneeHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsNaoki Hayashi, Toshizumi Yamaguchi, Satoru Kawabe, Toshihiko Sato
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Abstract
A vehicle floor structure with a floor body provided to a body frame is provided. The floor body is a hollow panel integrally formed by arranging a plurality of core materials with spaces on a flat plate and placing another flat plate over the core materials. In order to increase the rigidity of the entire floor body, core materials in edge portions of the floor body are joined to the body frame.
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A vehicle floor structure, comprising:
- a body frame;
- and
- a floor body of a hollow panel having a first flat plate, a plurality of core materials arranged with spaces on said first flat plate, and a second flat plate placed over said core materials,
- wherein core materials in edge portions of said floor body are joined to said body frame, and
- wherein said core materials include a plurality of longitudinal core materials extending in a longitudinal direction of a vehicle and arranged side by side in a transverse direction of the vehicle, and a plurality of cross core materials extending in the transverse direction of the vehicle and arranged side by side in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle along a left edge portion and a right edge portion of the edge portions of the floor body.
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A vehicle floor structure, comprising:
- a body frame including left and right front side frames extending in a longitudinal direction of the body frame, said left and right front side frames having rear ends;
- and
- a floor body of a hollow panel having a first flat plate, a plurality of first, second, and third core materials in first, second, and third sections, respectively, and a second flat plate placed over said first, second, and third core materials, said floor body further including first, second, and third cross core materials separating said rear ends of said left and right front side frames from said first section first core materials, separating said first section first core materials from said second section second core materials, and separating said second section second core materials from said third section third core materials, respectively, said first core materials in said first section arranged to extend radially rearward directly or indirectly from the rear ends of said left and right front side frames;
- wherein said floor body has a front end connected to rear ends of said left and right front side frames of said body frame.
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