Vehicle body lower section structure

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9266568-B2
Application number	US-201414547645-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 19, 2014
Priority date	Nov 25, 2013
Publication date	Feb 23, 2016
Grant date	Feb 23, 2016

Abstract

A vehicle body lower section structure has a rocker that extends in a vehicle body front-rear direction at an outside in a vehicle width direction of a floor panel; and a dashboard cross member that extends in the vehicle width direction at a lower side of a dashboard panel, and an outside end portion of the dashboard cross member in the vehicle width direction is superimposed on and connected to an upper face of the rocker.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle body lower section structure comprising:
a rocker that extends in a vehicle body front-rear direction at an outside in a vehicle width direction of a floor panel; and
a dashboard cross member that extends in the vehicle width direction at a lower side of a dashboard panel, the dashboard cross member having an outside end portion in the vehicle width direction superimposed on and connected to an upper face of the rocker, the dashboard cross member including;
a first cross member that extends in the vehicle width direction, first cross member having a hat shaped cross-section protruding toward an upper side of the first cross member; and
a second cross member that extends in the vehicle width direction at a vehicle body front side from the first cross member, the second cross member having a hat shaped cross-section protruding toward an upper side of the second cross member.

2. The vehicle body lower section structure of claim 1 , wherein the outside end portion of the dashboard cross member is superimposed on and connected to an inside face of the rocker.

3. The vehicle body lower section structure of claim 1 , wherein the outside end portion of the dashboard cross member is connected to a lower side of a front pillar.

4. The vehicle body lower section structure of claim 1 , wherein the outside end portion of the dashboard cross member is disposed in a position overlapping, in a vehicle body up-down direction, with a rear end portion of a front wheel, as viewed along the vehicle width direction.

5. The vehicle body lower section structure of claim 1 , wherein the dashboard cross member includes:
a coupling member that integrally couples together: (i) a substantially center portion in the vehicle width direction of the first cross member, and (ii) a substantially center portion in the vehicle width direction of the second cross member in the vehicle front-rear direction, the coupling member having a hat shaped cross-section protruding toward an upper side.

6. The vehicle body lower section structure of claim 5 , wherein the first cross member, the second cross member, and the coupling member are integrated together by contiguously providing: (i) a flange portion at a front side in the vehicle body front-rear direction of the first cross member, (ii) a flange portion at a rear side in the vehicle body front-rear direction of the second cross member, and (iii) a plurality of flange portions at both a left side and a right side in the vehicle width direction of the coupling member.

7. The vehicle body lower section structure of claim 1 , wherein the outside end portion of the dashboard cross member is provided with a first flange portion that bends so as to be superimposed on the upper face of the rocker and the inside face of the rocker, and a second flange portion that bends so as to extend upward from an outer end portion of the first flange portion and an outer end portion of the second cross member.

8. The vehicle body lower section structure of claim 5 , wherein
a flange portion at a rear side in the vehicle body front-rear direction of the first cross member is provided at a rear end portion of the dashboard cross member, and
an outside end portion in the vehicle width direction of the rear side flange portion is disposed in a position at substantially a same height as a lower face of the rocker.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Nishino Akira
• Nishida Gen
• Takahashi Hideyuki
• Kasai Satoshi
• Noguchi Daisuke

Classifications

• B62D25/025

  Side sills thereof · CPC title

• B62D25/2045 Primary

  the subunits being fire walls · CPC title

• B62D25/14

  Dashboards as superstructure sub-units (other dashboard aspects B60K) · CPC title

• B62D25/145

  having a crossbeam incorporated therein · CPC title