Automotive vehicle body having tailor welded blanks

Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Structural detail

Reexamination Certificate

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C296S193050

Reexamination Certificate

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07011361

ABSTRACT:
An automotive vehicle body includes a floor structure, a roof structure and a door opening panel welded to the floor and roof structure. The door opening panel is formed from a tailor welded metal blank furnishing a first thickness of metal for a lower portion of the door opening panel and a second thickness of material for an upper portion of the door opening panel. The lower and upper portions of the door opening panel are joined at an approximately horizontal weld line which is concealed by a passenger door, and in one embodiment, a pickup box.

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patent: 2002/0190544 (2002-12-01), Yamamoto et al.

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