Vehicle storage structure

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11524722-B2
Application number	US-202117198605-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 11, 2021
Priority date	Mar 16, 2020
Publication date	Dec 13, 2022
Grant date	Dec 13, 2022

Abstract

A vehicle storage structure is deformed and crushed, when an excessive load is inputted to a vehicle from outside, without any influence to functions of surrounding structures. The vehicle storage structure includes a case formed in a box shape having side walls, rising integrally with a periphery of a bottom plate, and an open top face, wherein when a line in a vehicle front-rear direction, connecting centers in an up-down direction of the bottom plate, is defined as a bottom-plate center line, and a line connecting a front end of the bottom-plate center line with a rear end of the bottom-plate center line is defined as a bottom-end connection line, the bottom-plate center line is a polygonal line having a ridge as a folding point and the ridge is positioned higher than the bottom-end connection line.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle storage structure comprising:
a case formed in a box shape having side walls, rising integrally with a periphery of a bottom plate, and an open top face, wherein
when a line in a vehicle front-rear direction, connecting centers in an up-down direction of the bottom plate, is defined as a bottom-plate center line, and a line connecting a front end of the bottom-plate center line with a rear end of the bottom-plate center line is defined as a bottom-end connection line,
the bottom-plate center line is a polygonal line having a ridge as a folding point, and
the ridge is positioned higher than the bottom-end connection line.

2. The vehicle storage structure as claimed in claim 1 , comprising:
a main bottom plate to form a bottom surface of the case, wherein the main bottom plate is folded in an A-shape along a bottom ridge line, which extends in a vehicle width direction while overlapping with the ridge.

3. The vehicle storage structure as claimed in claim 2 , wherein
the side walls are each provided, at a portion intersecting the bottom ridge line, with a side-wall ridge line extending in the up-down direction,
wherein the side-wall ridge line protrudes outward in the vehicle width direction from the case more than a side-wall connection line connecting a front end of each of the side walls with a rear end of each of the side walls, to fold each of the side walls.

4. The vehicle storage structure as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the side-wall ridge line extends so as to overlap with a vertical line.

5. The vehicle storage structure as claimed in claim 3 ,
wherein the side walls are each provided, on an outer peripheral surface of the case, with side wall ribs rising outward of the case and extending in the up-down direction so as to be aligned in a vehicle front-rear direction at predetermined intervals,
wherein the side wall ribs are provided around a portion of the side wall overlapping with the side-wall ridge line.

6. The vehicle storage structure as claimed in claim 1 ,
wherein an angle between the bottom-plate center line of a portion of the bottom plate on a front side of the ridge and a front side wall of the side walls intersecting the bottom plate is an acute angle.

7. The vehicle storage structure as claimed in claim 1 ,
wherein the bottom plate is provided, on an outer peripheral surface of the case, with longitudinal bottom ribs rising downward and extending in the vehicle front-rear direction so as to be aligned in a vehicle width direction at predetermined intervals,
wherein the longitudinal bottom ribs are each partitioned into an outer bottom rib and an inner bottom rib at a portion thereof overlapping with the ridge.

8. The vehicle storage structure as claimed in claim 7 ,
wherein at least one of the outer bottom rib and the inner bottom rib is formed to have a height from the main bottom plate decreased in the vehicle front-rear direction toward the ridge.

Assignees

• Honda Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yamaoka Yuichiro

Classifications

• B60R13/013

  comprising removable or hinged parts, e.g. for accessing storage compartments · CPC title

• B62D21/152 Primary

  Front or rear frames · CPC title

• B60R5/02 Primary

  arranged at front of vehicle {(B60R5/003 takes precedence)} · CPC title