Vehicle body upper structure of automobile

Details Vehicle body upper structure of automobile Vehicle body upper structure of automobile

1996-10-29

1998-09-01

Sotelo, Jesus D.

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

Bodies

Body shell

280150B, B60R 2700

Patent

active

058000089

ABSTRACT:
A vehicle body upper structure of an automobile provided with a roofside rail (20) including an outer panel (22), a reinforcing panel (24) and an inner panel (26) and formed as a closed sectional structure by joining flange portions facing each other is disclosed. The inner panel (26) is formed by a steel plate having a smaller thickness than the thickness of the outer panel and the thickness of the reinforcing panel and is deformable when a predetermined or more load is applied. The inner panel has integrally a rising portion (28, 29) rising respectively inward from of a pair of flange portions (27A, 27B) and an inward portion (30) coupling the inward ends of these rising portions. The rising portion (29) is formed so as to buckle when a predetermined or more load is applied.

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patent: 3779595 (1973-12-01), Suzuki et al.
patent: 5163730 (1992-11-01), Welch
patent: 5382051 (1995-01-01), Glance
patent: 5560672 (1996-10-01), Lim et al.

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