Vehicle body front section structure
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakayoshi Shigihara
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Abstract
In a vehicle body front section structure according to the present invention, as well as a pair of left and right front side support portions and a pair of left and right rear side support portions that support a suspension member from the vehicle body, the suspension member is also coupled to a dash panel by coupling members. The coupling members are provided in the vehicle front-rear direction between the pair of left and right front side support portions and the pair of left and right rear side support portions, and provided in the vehicle width direction between the front side support portion and rear side support portion on the vehicle left side and the front side support portion and rear side support portion on the vehicle right side.
Claims2
A vehicle body front section structure comprising:
- a suspension member that supports left and right suspension devices, and that is coupled to an engine disposed in a vehicle body front section;
- a pair of left and right front side support portions that respectively support left and right front side portions of the suspension member from a vehicle body;
- a pair of left and right rear side support portions that respectively support left and right rear side portions of the suspension member from the vehicle body;
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- coupling members that are provided in a vehicle front-rear direction between the pair of left and right front side support portions and the pair of left and right rear side support portions, and that are provided in a vehicle width direction between the front side support portion and rear side support portion on a vehicle left side, and between the front side support portion and rear side support portion on a vehicle right side, each of the coupling members comprising
- a plate shaped portion that extends in a vehicle top-bottom direction with a plate thickness direction of the plate shaped portion oriented in the vehicle front-rear direction, only a lower end portion of the plate shaped portion being fixed to the suspension member, and
- a fixing portion that is fixed to the vehicle body and that extends from a top end portion of the plate shaped portion towards a vehicle rear side or a vehicle front side.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.