Vehicle lower section structure

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9637075-B2
Application number	US-201514741895-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 17, 2015
Priority date	Jul 4, 2014
Publication date	May 2, 2017
Grant date	May 2, 2017

Abstract

There is provided a vehicle lower section structure including a rocker that extends in a vehicle front-rear direction at a vehicle width direction outer side, a tunnel section that extends in the vehicle front-rear direction at a central portion in the vehicle width direction, a pair of dash cross members that extend in the vehicle width direction at a lower side of a dash panel, that are separated by the tunnel section, tunnel reinforcement that is disposed at a lower side in the vehicle up-down direction that extends in the vehicle front-rear direction, wherein a first front flange is formed at a front end of the dash cross member in the vehicle front-rear direction, and wherein a second front flange is disposed at a position opposing the first front flange across the dash panel or a floor section.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle lower section structure comprising:
a rocker that extends in a vehicle front-rear direction at a vehicle width direction outer side of a floor section of a vehicle compartment;
a tunnel section that extends in the vehicle front-rear direction at a central portion of the floor section in the vehicle width direction, and that projects toward the upper side in a vehicle up-down direction;
a pair of dash cross members that extend in the vehicle width direction at a lower side of a dash panel provided at a front portion of the floor section in the vehicle front-rear direction, that are separated by the tunnel section, and that couple together the rocker and the tunnel section; and
tunnel reinforcement that is disposed at a lower side of the floor section in the vehicle up-down direction and at an outer side of the tunnel section in the vehicle width direction, and that extends in the vehicle front-rear direction,
wherein a first front flange is formed at a front end of the dash cross member in the vehicle front-rear direction, and is joined to either the dash panel or the floor section, and
wherein a second front flange is formed at a front end of the tunnel reinforcement in the vehicle front-rear direction, and is joined to either the dash panel or the floor section at a position opposing the first front flange across the dash panel or the floor section.

2. The vehicle lower section structure of claim 1 , further comprising:
a side member that is disposed at the outer side of the tunnel section in the vehicle width direction and at a front side of the floor section in the vehicle front-rear direction, and that extends in the vehicle front-rear direction; and
an inner torque box that is disposed between the side member and the tunnel reinforcement at an angle toward the vehicle width direction inner side on progression toward the vehicle front-rear direction rear side, with a front end of the inner torque box joined to a vehicle width direction inner side of the side member, and a rear end of the inner torque box joined to the tunnel reinforcement.

3. The vehicle lower section structure of claim 2 , wherein:
a third front flange is formed at a front end of the inner torque box in the vehicle front-rear direction, and is joined to either the dash panel or the floor section at a position opposing the first front flange across the dash panel or the floor section.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Atsumi Hyuga
• Nuruki Tetsuo
• Teramoto Daisuke
• Hasegawa Kayoko

Classifications

• B60R19/023 Primary

  Details · CPC title

• B62D25/20

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

• B62D25/2045

  the subunits being fire walls · CPC title

• B62D25/025 Primary

  Side sills thereof · CPC title