Vehicle body side structure

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11718350-B2
Application number	US-202217680429-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 25, 2022
Priority date	Mar 30, 2021
Publication date	Aug 8, 2023
Grant date	Aug 8, 2023

Abstract

This vehicle body side structure includes: side sills provided at both end portions of a floor section in a width direction of a vehicle and extending in a forward/rearward direction of the vehicle; a pillar extending upward from each of the side sills and having a pillar outer provided on an outside in the width direction of the vehicle; a crushing member provided on an inside in the width direction of the vehicle with respect to the pillar outer, having a lower portion joined to the side sill, and extending upward; an impactor which is provided above the crushing member, which is joined to an inside of the pillar outer in the width direction of the vehicle, and in which the impactor and the crushing member at least partially overlap in an upward/downward direction; and a seatbelt winding device provided on the outside in the width direction of the vehicle with respect to the crushing member and disposed inside an accommodation concave section formed in the impactor.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle body side structure, comprising:
side sills provided at both end portions of a floor section in a width direction of a vehicle and extending in a forward/rearward direction of the vehicle;
a pillar extending upward from each of the side sills and having a pillar outer provided on an outside in the width direction of the vehicle;
a crushing member provided on an inside in the width direction of the vehicle with respect to the pillar outer, having a lower portion joined to the side sill, and extending upward;
an impactor which is provided above the crushing member, which is joined to an inside of the pillar outer in the width direction of the vehicle, and in which the impactor and the crushing member at least partially overlap in an upward/downward direction; and
a seatbelt winding device provided on the outside in the width direction of the vehicle with respect to the crushing member and disposed inside an accommodation concave section formed in the impactor.

2. The vehicle body side structure according to claim 1 , wherein the impactor includes an upper wall fixed to the pillar outer,
a pair of upper side walls extending inward in the width direction of the vehicle from both end portions of the upper wall in the forward/rearward direction of the vehicle, and
an upper bottom wall configured to close below the pair of upper side walls, and is opened inward in the width direction of the vehicle,
the crushing member includes a lower wall disposed at a distance inward in the width direction of the vehicle with respect to the pillar outer, and
a pair of lower side walls extending outward in the width direction of the vehicle from both sides of the lower wall in the forward/rearward direction of the vehicle, and
is opened outward in the width direction of the vehicle, and
the pair of upper side walls and the pair of lower side walls are joined.

3. The vehicle body side structure according to claim 2 , wherein each of the lower side walls includes a lower inclined section inclined upward from the outside toward the inside in the width direction of the vehicle, and
the upper side wall includes an upper inclined section inclined upward from the outside toward the inside in the width direction of the vehicle and connected to the lower inclined section.

4. The vehicle body side structure according to claim 2 , wherein the impactor includes reinforcing sections which are continuous from the upper wall to the pair of upper side walls on both sides in the forward/rearward direction of the vehicle.

5. The vehicle body side structure according to claim 1 , wherein the crushing member is joined to an inner surface in the width direction of the vehicle and an upper surface of the side sill.

6. The vehicle body side structure according to claim 1 , wherein the pillar further includes a pillar inner provided inward in the width direction of the vehicle with respect to the pillar outer and having a lower end portion with an opening therein, and
the crushing member is disposed below the opening and inward in the width direction of the vehicle.

7. The vehicle body side structure according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a partition wall provided inside the side sill and at a position in which the partition wall and the crushing member overlap in the forward/rearward direction of the vehicle along a surface of the side sill which intersects the partition wall in the forward/rearward direction of the vehicle.

8. The vehicle body side structure according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a door beam provided in a door provided in a door opening formed on at least one side in the forward/rearward direction of the vehicle to be openable and closeable with respect to the pillar and provided to straddle the door opening in the forward/rearward direction of the vehicle with the door opening closed, and
a beam end of the door beam is disposed at a position in which the beam end and the impactor overlap in the upward/downward direction.

9. The vehicle body side structure according to claim 1 , wherein the impactor has a rigidity higher than that of the crushing member.

10. The vehicle body side structure according to claim 9 , wherein the impactor is made of a material having a sheet thickness larger than that of the crushing member.

Assignees

• Honda Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Hasegawa Atsushi
• Yamada Hitomi
• Takeuchi Ryotaro
• Fujii Takayuki

Classifications

• B62D25/025 Primary

  Side sills thereof · CPC title

• B62D21/157 Primary

  for side impacts · CPC title

• B62D27/023

  Assembly of structural joints · CPC title

• B62D25/04

  Door pillars {; windshield pillars} · CPC title

• B62D25/20

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