Front body member for vehicle
AssigneeHyundai Motor Company
InventorHyun Sik Kim
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Abstract
A front body member which transfers collision energy to a front side member, or allows collision energy to be absorbed by the front side member at a time of a vehicle collision, may include an upper portion and a lower portion with respect to a height direction of the vehicle body, in which the upper portion and the lower portion of the front body member further include an upper flange and a lower flange, respectively, which are formed along perimeters of the upper portion and the lower portion to be in surface-to-surface contact with each other, and an empty space is formed in each of the upper portion and the lower portion of the front body member for a target internal space to be formed in the front body member when the upper flange and the lower flange are in surface-to-surface contact with each other.
Claims18
A front body member installed on a front portion of a front side member forming a frame of a front side of a vehicle body in a length direction of the vehicle body, and configured to transfer collision energy to the front side member, or allow the collision energy to be absorbed by the front side member at a time of a vehicle collision, the front body member comprising:
- an upper portion and a lower portion with respect to a height direction of the vehicle body,
- wherein the upper portion and the lower portion of the front body member include an upper flange and a lower flange, respectively, which are formed along perimeters of the upper portion and the lower portion to be in surface-to-surface contact with each other,
- wherein an empty space is formed in each of the upper portion and the lower portion of the front body member for a target internal space to be formed in the front body member when the upper flange and the lower flange are in surface-to-surface contact with each other, and
- wherein the upper portion and the lower portion of the front body member together form an opening into which the front portion of the front side member is inserted and an engaging inner perimeter surface on the front body member which overlaps an outer perimeter surface of the front portion of the front side member inside the opening, in a state in which the upper flange and the lower flange are in contact with each other.
A front body member which is installed on a front portion of a front side member forming a frame of a front side of a vehicle body in a length direction of the vehicle body, and configured to transfer collision energy to the front side member, or allow the collision energy to be absorbed by the front side member at a time of a vehicle collision,
- wherein the front body member is integrally formed to have a target internal space,
- wherein when the front body member is engaged with the front portion of the front side member, the front body member is formed to have a parallel face which is parallel with a length direction and a height direction of the front side member, a vertical face which is perpendicular to the parallel face, a diagonal face which forms predetermined angles with respect to the parallel face and the vertical face, and upper and lower cover faces in a vehicle height direction which are perpendicular to the parallel face, the vertical face, and the diagonal face, and
- wherein the front body member is integrally formed with an opening into which the front portion of the front side member is inserted, and an engaging inner perimeter surface which overlaps an outer perimeter surface of the front portion of the front side member inside the opening.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.