Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Structural detail
Patent
1995-04-03
1996-08-27
Pedder, Dennis H.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Structural detail
296115, 296209, B62D 2520
Patent
active
055493505
ABSTRACT:
A rear underbody which forms a rear-under section of a vehicle body is provided with a pair of rear floor side members disposed along a longitudinal direction of the vehicle body in respective vicinities of both end portions of the rear underbody in a transverse direction of the vehicle body. The pair of rear floor side members each forms an enclosed cross-sectional configuration which extends in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle body. A cross member which extends substantially straight in the transverse direction of the vehicle body is disposed apart from and under a rear floor pan between the pair of rear floor side members at respective substantially central portions of a pair of rear wheel house inners. Both end portions, in the transverse direction of the vehicle body, of the cross member are respectively welded to an inner surface of the inside wall portion, in the transverse direction of the vehicle body, of the rear floor side member. A lower-arm bracket which supports a rear lower arm is disposed in a central portion, in the transverse direction of the vehicle body, of a lower surface of the cross member. This causes vibration of the rear floor pan to be sufficiently controlled and causes road noise to be sufficiently reduced.
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Automotive Industries, Body Design, Aug. 1, 19940.
Akiyama Akira
Arakawa Michio
Kiessig Hartmut M.
Ogawa Hisashi
Pedder Dennis H.
Toyota Jidosha & Kabushiki Kaisha
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