Vehicle body side sill reinforcing bulkhead

Details Vehicle body side sill reinforcing bulkhead Vehicle body side sill reinforcing bulkhead

1997-08-20

2000-04-25

Dayoan, D. Glenn

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

Bodies

Body shell

296 30, 296209, B62D 2702

Patent

active

060535644

ABSTRACT:
A body has a front side member and a side sill connected thereto. The side sill is disposed outwardly of and below the front side member in the width and height directions of the body. At a junction between the front side member and the side sill, a reinforcement member for reinforcing the junction is provided. The reinforcement member has a longitudinal wall and front and rear walls extending in the body width direction and functioning as bulkheads, and permits the junction to resist a bending moment caused by an impact force applied to the front of the body and acting on the junction in the backward, upward and inward directions of the body. Especially in an offset crash, the reinforcement member restrains a deformation of the side sill and decreases a recession of a front pillar, to thereby reduce a deformation of the passenger cabin.

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patent: 5242209 (1993-09-01), Yamauchi
patent: 5370438 (1994-12-01), Mori et al.

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