Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Structural detail
Reexamination Certificate
2006-02-28
2006-02-28
Patel, Kiran B. (Department: 3612)
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Structural detail
C180S274000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07004534
ABSTRACT:
A structure of a cowl and its vicinities is provided which is capable of, even in a vehicle which has an open cowl structure, using the open cowl structure as a member which connects the right and left bodies of the vehicle, and at the same time, realizing a structure that is useful for protecting a pedestrian. At the end part of a cowl12in the vehicle rear direction, one end of a dash upper panel16is connected; its other end extends below the cowl12and in the vehicle front direction; from its middle part in the vehicle front-and-rear directions, a cowl cross-member lower9extends in the vehicle upper direction; at the upper-end part of the cowl cross-member lower9,a protrusion portion25is formed; and by welding it to a cowl cross-member upper10,a closed-section portion27is formed between them. Herein, the cowl cross-member upper10is thinner than the cowl cross-member lower9.
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Kageyama Yasunori
Nakamura Katsutoshi
Sogabe Hiroshi
Yoshii Noboru
Mazda Motor Corporation
Nixon & Peabody LLP
Patel Kiran B.
Studebaker Donald R.
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