Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Structural detail
Reexamination Certificate
2006-04-11
2006-04-11
Pedder, Dennis H. (Department: 3612)
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Structural detail
C296S204000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07025412
ABSTRACT:
A vehicle body structure with a floor panel having rigidity to withstand an impact energy at an offset collision of the vehicle is provided. The floor panel has a plurality of beads formed in a direction in which an impact energy acts. The beads are formed in the floor panel such that they extend obliquely rearward from left and right floor frame members toward the transversal center and are aligned longitudinally of the vehicle body.
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Nakamura Tadashi
Toba Yoshiyuki
Pedder Dennis H.
Rankin, Hill Porter & Clark LLP
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