Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Body shell
Patent
1996-12-20
1998-11-10
Pike, Andrew C.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Body shell
296 391, 280751, B62D 2504
Patent
active
058333037
ABSTRACT:
A pillar construction for a vehicle body includes a steel pad formed from a resilient sheet steel and disposed between a pillar inner panel of a pillar main body and a pillar trim. In a secondary collision in which the pillar trim is subjected to a force directed outward of a vehicle body and deformed thereby, the steel pad produces a reaction force against deformation of the pillar trim at the initial stage of the secondary collision and substantially no reaction force at the final stage of the secondary collision.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3779595 (1973-12-01), Suzuki et al.
patent: 5609385 (1997-03-01), Daniel et al.
Kawai Akira
Maki Tetsuo
Saito Ken-ichi
Nissan Motor Co,. Ltd.
Pike Andrew C.
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