Vehicle body structure

Details Vehicle body structure Vehicle body structure

1997-03-10

1999-11-30

Pape, Joseph D.

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

Bodies

Body shell

296189, 29620301, 296204, 296209, B60J 700

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059929219

ABSTRACT:
A vehicle body structure in which load from a front of a vehicle, which load is applied to a front side member, is absorbed via a reinforcing member fixed to a floor panel and extending in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle. The reinforcing member is provided so as to be inclined, with respect to the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, toward a side sill provided at a vehicle transverse outer side of the reinforcing member, and is provided such that, when a load is applied, the reinforcing member is slidable toward a rear of the vehicle with a rear end portion of the reinforcing member contacting the side sill.

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