Vehicle structure
AssigneeMitsubishi Jidosha Engineering Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTakayuki Yatabe, Keishi Goto, Masashi Umeda, Akitoshi Shii
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Abstract
A vehicle structure, preferably applied to a vehicle with 2-door automobiles with the intention of inhabitation of center pillar deformation, particularly intrusion inside the vehicle, as a side impact collision, including: a rear roof rail which is placed in a reward position of a center pillar and which forms a rear end of a roof of a vehicle; and a connector which connects a closed section formed on the center pillar and a closed section formed on the rear roof rail so that the first and the second closed sections are formed into a continuous closed section and which includes a side roof rail part which forms a portion of a side roof rail that extend in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle.
Claims8
A vehicle structure, comprising:
- a rear roof rail placed in a reward position of a center pillar and which forms a rear end of a roof of a vehicle;
- and
- a connector which connects a first closed section formed on the center pillar and a second closed section formed on said rear roof rail, such that the first and the second closed sections are formed into a continuous closed section and which includes a side roof rail part which forms a portion of a side roof rail that extend in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle,
- wherein, said side roof rail is connected to said rear roof rail via said connector.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.