Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Structural detail
Patent
1989-10-20
1990-08-21
Focarino, Magaret A.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Structural detail
296201, B60K 3700
Patent
active
049500244
ABSTRACT:
A cowl box extends in the transverse direction of a vehicle body in front of the passenger room between left and right hinge pillars and is defined by a windshield support member on which the windshield of the vehicle is supported and a dashboard upper member which is joined to the lower surface of the windshield support member. The dashboard upper member has a vertical wall portion facing the passenger room. The cowl box having an open cross-section. A reinforcement is provided along the joining line of the dashboard upper member to the windshield support member. The reinforcement is formed of end portions which extend along respective end portions of the joining line of the dashboard upper member to the windshield support member and a main portion which extends along the rest of the joining line of the dashboard upper member to the windshield support member. The end portions are on the passenger room side over the entire length thereof and are fixed to the corresponding hinge pillars. The main portion is on the side remote from the passenger room.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4699419 (1987-10-01), Kawase et al.
patent: 4750780 (1988-06-01), Harasaki et al.
patent: 4789198 (1988-12-01), Ide
Osumi Masahiro
Watari Tadayoshi
Focarino Magaret A.
Hoge Gary C.
Mazda Motor Corporation
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