Vehicle body front portion structure

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9242673-B2
Application number	US-201314409385-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 4, 2013
Priority date	Jul 6, 2012
Publication date	Jan 26, 2016
Grant date	Jan 26, 2016

Abstract

A vehicle body front portion structure including a front side member disposed, with a longitudinal direction thereof being in a vehicle longitudinal direction, at a vehicle transverse direction outer side portion of a vehicle body front portion; a bumper reinforcement disposed, with a longitudinal direction thereof being in a vehicle transverse direction, at a vehicle front side of the front side member, and that is supported via a supporting member at a front end portion of the front side member; a plate portion whose plate thickness direction is in the vehicle longitudinal direction, and that extends toward a vehicle transverse direction outer side from the front end portion of the front side member; and a reinforcing member disposed at a vehicle rear side of the plate portion, and that, together with the plate portion, forms a closed cross-section as seen in a plan cross-section.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A vehicle body front portion structure comprising:
a front side member that is disposed, with a longitudinal direction thereof being in a vehicle longitudinal direction, at a vehicle transverse direction outer side portion of a vehicle body front portion;
a bumper reinforcement that is disposed, with a longitudinal direction thereof being in a vehicle transverse direction, at a vehicle front side of the front side member, and that is supported via a supporting member at a front end portion of the front side member;
a plate portion whose plate thickness direction is in the vehicle longitudinal direction, and that extends toward a vehicle transverse direction outer side from the front end portion of the front side member; and
a reinforcing member that is disposed at a vehicle rear side of the plate portion, and that, together with the plate portion, forms a closed cross-section as seen in a plan cross-section,
wherein:
the plate portion projects out further toward a vehicle transverse direction outer side than the bumper reinforcement,
the reinforcing member projects out toward a vehicle rear side from the plate portion, and
a rear end portion of the reinforcing member is made to be a free end.

2. The vehicle body front portion structure of claim 1 , further comprising:
a plate-shaped member that is sandwiched between the supporting member and the front side member,
wherein the plate portion is formed at the plate-shaped member.

3. The vehicle body front portion structure of claim 1 , wherein a position at which the plate portion is disposed is set such that a front wheel is positioned outside of a range of a rotational locus of the plate portion in a case in which the plate portion bendingly deforms toward a vehicle rear side with a proximal end portion thereof as a bending point.

4. The vehicle body front portion structure of claim 1 , wherein the reinforcing member is formed in a taper shape whose width in the vehicle transverse direction becomes narrower toward a vehicle rear side.

5. The vehicle body front portion structure of claim 1 , wherein the reinforcing member is formed in a triangular shape in plan view that is formed so as to be convex toward a vehicle rear side.

6. The vehicle body front portion structure of claim 1 wherein:
the reinforcing member has a ceiling wall portion and a bottom wall portion that are respectively formed in triangular shapes in plan view that are formed so as to be convex toward a vehicle rear side, and that oppose one another in a vehicle vertical direction,
a height, in the vehicle vertical direction, of the ceiling portion coincides with that of an upper side ridgeline portion that extends in the vehicle longitudinal direction along an upper wall portion of the front side member, and
a height, in the vehicle vertical direction, of the bottom wall portion coincides with that of a lower side ridgeline portion that extends in the vehicle longitudinal direction along a lower wall portion of the front side member.

7. The vehicle body front portion structure of claim 6 , wherein
the upper wall portion of the front side member has an upper-outer side ridgeline portion that extends in the vehicle longitudinal direction along an end portion at a vehicle transverse direction outer side, and an upper-inner side ridgeline portion that extends in the vehicle longitudinal direction along an end portion at a vehicle transverse direction inner side, and the height, in the vehicle vertical direction, of the ceiling wall portion coincides with that of at least the upper-outer side ridgeline portion that serves as the upper side ridgeline portion, and
the lower wall portion of the front side member has a lower-outer side ridgeline portion that extends in the vehicle longitudinal direction along an end portion at a vehicle transverse direction outer side, and a lower-inner side ridgeline portion that extends in the vehicle longitudinal direction along an end portion at a vehicle transverse direction inner side, and the height, in the vehicle vertical direction, of the bottom wall portion coincides with that of at least the lower-outer side ridgeline portion that serves as the lower side ridgeline portion.

8. The vehicle body front portion structure of claim 6 wherein:
the reinforcing member has an outer side vertical wall portion that connects oblique side portions at a vehicle transverse direction outer side of the ceiling wall portion and the bottom wall portion, and an inner side vertical wall portion that connects oblique side portions at a vehicle transverse direction inner side of the ceiling wall portion and the bottom wall portion, and
a rear end portion of the reinforcing member is made to be a rear side ridgeline portion that extends in the vehicle vertical direction and is formed by a connected portion of the outer side vertical wall portion and the inner side vertical wall portion.

9. The vehicle body front portion structure of claim 1 , wherein an end portion in the vehicle transverse direction of the plate portion projects out further toward the vehicle transverse direction outer side than an end portion in the vehicle transverse direction of the bumper reinforcement.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Okamoto Atsushi

Classifications

• B60R19/023

  Details · CPC title

• B62D21/02

  comprising longitudinally or transversely arranged frame members · CPC title

• B62D21/152 Primary

  Front or rear frames · CPC title

• B60R19/02

  Bumpers, i.e. impact receiving or absorbing members for protecting vehicles or fending off blows from other vehicles or objects ({B60R19/56 takes precedence; initiating brake action by contact of bumper with an external object B60T7/22; for rail vehicles B61F19/04; safety equipment for cycles B62J27/00;} integral with waterborne vessels or specially adapted therefor B63B59/02) · CPC title