Joining structure for member in vehicle body

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10071774-B2
Application number	US-201515313908-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 25, 2015
Priority date	May 27, 2014
Publication date	Sep 11, 2018
Grant date	Sep 11, 2018

Abstract

Not only a reduction in the load resistant performance of a structural member in a vehicle body having a quenched portion with a tensile strength of 1,470 MPa or greater, but also a reduction in the shock absorbing performance associated with the HAZ softening by welding are suppressed. In a joining structure ( 10 ) for a member in a vehicle body in which a first member ( 11 ) that is made of steel, has a closed hollow cross-section having no outward flange, and is provided with a quenched portion having a tensile strength of 1,470 MPa or greater, a base material portion having a tensile strength of less than 700 MPa, and a transition portion ( 17 ) between the quenched portion ( 16 ) and the base material portion ( 18 ) in a longitudinal direction thereof, and a second member ( 12 ) that is made of steel and overlaps the first member ( 11 ) are welded to each other in an overlapping portion, the overlapping portion exists over the base material portion ( 18 ) from the quenched portion ( 16 ) of the first member ( 11 ) through the transition portion ( 17 ), and a welding portion ( 13 ) formed by welding exists in the transition portion ( 17 ) or the base material portion ( 18 ) in the first member ( 11 ).

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A joining structure for a member in a vehicle body comprising:
a first member made of steel, extending in one direction, having a closed hollow cross-section that is free of an outwardly-extending flange, the first member including:
a quenched portion having a tensile strength of 1,470 MPa or greater,
a base material portion having a tensile strength of less than 700 MPa, and
a transition portion between the quenched portion and the base material portion in which a tensile strength gradually changes from the tensile strength of the quenched portion to the tensile strength of the base material portion;
a second member made of steel and only partially overlapping an external surface of the first member by an overlapping portion, and an edge of the second member is on the quenched portion,
the first member and the second member welded to each other in the overlapping portion, and
the overlapping portion overlapping the first member from the quenched portion through the transition portion and over the base material portion; and
a welding portion formed by the welding existing in the transition portion or the base material portion in the first member.

2. The joining structure for a member in a vehicle body according to claim 1 ,
wherein a ratio (X/L) of a length (X) mm to a length (L) mm is 0.25 or greater, the length (X) mm being a length from an end portion of the second member on a side facing the quenched portion of the first member to an end portion of the quenched portion of the first member in the one direction, the length (L) mm being a length from an end portion of the welding portion on a side facing the quenched portion of the first member to the end portion of the second member on the side facing the quenched portion of the first member, and
the length (X) is indicated by the coordinates to the one direction as the origin position of the end portion of the second member on the side facing the quenching portion of the first member.

3. The joining structure for a member in a vehicle body according to claim 1 ,
wherein the welding portion is an arc welding portion, a laser welding portion, or a resistance spot welding portion.

4. The joining structure for a member in a vehicle body according to claim 1 ,
wherein the first member has a rectangular cross-sectional shape, and the second member is formed of a third member having a hat-shaped cross-section overlapping three sides of the first member and a fourth member joined to overlap two flanges of the third member and overlapping the remaining one side of the first member.

5. The joining structure for a member in a vehicle body according to claim 1 ,
wherein the second member has a joining hole that is a work hole for a case where the welding portion is formed.

6. The joining structure for a member in a vehicle body according to claim 1 ,
wherein the first member is manufactured by three-dimensional hot bending and quenching.

Assignees

• Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp

Inventors

• Yoshida Michitaka
• Tomizawa Atsushi
• Uematsu Kazuo

Classifications

• B23K26/24

  Seam welding · CPC title

• F16B5/08

  by means of welds or the like (welding B23K) · CPC title

• B23K9/00

  Arc welding or cutting · CPC title

• B21D7/162

  Heating equipment · CPC title

• B62D65/02

  Joining sub-units or components to, or positioning sub-units or components with respect to, body shell or other sub-units or components · CPC title