Automobile floor panel and automobile floor panel manufacturing method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11230082-B2
Application number	US-201716338823-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 31, 2017
Priority date	Oct 24, 2016
Publication date	Jan 25, 2022
Grant date	Jan 25, 2022

Abstract

A vehicle floor panel is provided in which a honeycomb core made of metal sandwiched and adhered between two CFRP plates is one in which a large number of core units formed into a polygon shape are continuous within one plane so as to share a side of the polygon. Since closed-section parts formed by a hat-shaped cross section part formed along the side and one CFRP plate are continuous with each other at a vertex of the polygon of the adjacent core units, not only is it possible to lighten the weight by opening the interior of the polygon (P) shape core unit, but it is also possible to enhance the energy-absorbing performance by dispersing and transmitting a collision load inputted into one direction of the floor panel toward a plurality of other directions because the high strength load transmission path is continuous with other load transmission paths.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A vehicle floor panel in which a honeycomb core made of metal is sandwiched between two CFRP plates and adhered,
wherein the honeycomb core comprises a plurality of core units each formed into a polygon shape defined by a plurality of sides, the core units being continuous within one plane so as to share the sides of the polygon of each core unit with those of adjacently positioned, surrounding ones of the core units, each of the sides forms a hat-shaped cross section part by a raised top face, a pair of side faces extending downwards from the top face, and a pair of flange faces, and closed cross-section parts are formed by adhering one of the CFRP plates to the pair of flange faces such that the closed cross-section parts linearly extend along the sides and are continuous with each other at vertexes of the polygons of the adjacent core units.

2. The vehicle floor panel according to claim 1 , wherein the core units are each a square shape or an equilateral triangle shape.

3. The vehicle floor panel according to claim 1 , wherein a pair of the honeycomb cores are adhered to each other via the respective top faces of the hat-shaped cross section parts.

4. The vehicle floor panel according to claim 3 , wherein the flange faces of the hat-shaped cross section part of the pair of honeycomb cores are adhered to the CFRP plate by an urethane-based adhesive having a modulus of elasticity of 10 to 120 MPa.

5. The vehicle floor panel according to claim 3 , wherein the top faces of the hat-shaped cross section parts of the pair of honeycomb cores are adhered to each other by an epoxy-based adhesive.

6. The vehicle floor panel according to claim 3 wherein the top faces of the hat-shaped cross section parts of the pair of honeycomb cores are adhered to each other by an urethane-based adhesive having a modulus of elasticity of 10 to 120 MPa.

7. The vehicle floor panel according to claim 1 , wherein end parts of the two CFRP plates are adhered to each other by an epoxy-based adhesive.

8. The vehicle floor panel according to claim 1 , wherein the side faces of hat-shaped cross section parts that are adjacent to each other are continuous while being smoothly curved.

9. A manufacturing method for the vehicle floor panel according to claim 1 , wherein an adhesive is cured by induction heating (IH) the honeycomb core by an IH heater.

10. A manufacturing method for the vehicle floor panel according to claim 1 , wherein the honeycomb core is manufactured by deep drawing an aluminum plate by blow molding.

11. The vehicle floor panel according to claim 1 , wherein the raised top face is shared by adjacent two core units, and
one of the pair of side faces constitutes one of the adjacent two core units and the other of the pair of side faces constitutes the other of the adjacent two core units.

Assignees

• Honda Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ayuzawa Shotaro

Classifications

• B21D47/04

  composite sheet metal profiles · CPC title

• B62D25/20

  Floors or bottom sub-units {(sub-frames for mounting engine or suspensions B62D21/11; drip trays F16N31/006)} · CPC title

• B32B7/022

  Mechanical properties · CPC title

• B32B2307/708

  Isotropic · CPC title

• B62D29/005

  preformed metal and synthetic material elements being joined together, e.g. by adhesives · CPC title