Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Structural detail
Reexamination Certificate
2011-08-23
2011-08-23
Pedder, Dennis (Department: 3612)
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Structural detail
C296S187090, C293S133000, C293S155000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08002338
ABSTRACT:
Horizontally elongated member interconnects respective front end portions of a lower frame and a front side frame spaced apart from each other in a width direction of the vehicle body. Impact absorbing section is mounted on a substantially entire front surface of the horizontally elongated member, and a bumper beam is fixedly mounted to the front surface of the impact absorbing section. The impact absorbing section is a cylindrical member having a cross-sectional shape elongated in the width direction and having its outer side wall portion disposed generally on an imaginary extension line of an inner vertical wall portion of the lower frame.
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Matsuura Yuji
Yasuhara Shigeto
Honda Motor Co. Ltd.
Pedder Dennis
Rankin , Hill & Clark LLP
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