Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Body shell
Reexamination Certificate
2008-05-07
2009-02-17
Pape, Joseph D (Department: 3612)
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Body shell
C296S193070, C296S204000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07490892
ABSTRACT:
A vehicle deck structure that can suppress deformation of a deck floor is provided. The vehicle deck structure includes a deck floor extending in a vehicle body front-rear direction and a vehicle width direction, a cross member having a longitudinal direction that corresponds to the vehicle width direction and provided at a lower side of the deck floor, a mount lower surface reinforcement that closes off a downward open end of the cross member to form a closed cross-section portion Sc, a collar that is provided within the closed cross-section portion Sc and supports a fastening load for fastening the deck floor to a chassis frame F, and a rear cross reinforcement that is provided at a front side or a rear side in the vehicle body front-rear direction with respect to an installation portion of the collar at the deck floor. The rear cross reinforcement includes an upper wall joined with the deck floor, a lower wall fixed at a front flange of the mount lower surface reinforcement, and an upright wall connecting the upper wall and the lower wall.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5730486 (1998-03-01), Jurica
patent: 7322640 (2008-01-01), Ni et al.
patent: 6-25085 (1994-04-01), None
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner LLP
Pape Joseph D
Toyota Jidosha & Kabushiki Kaisha
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