Vehicle side door structure

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9718330-B2
Application number	US-201615258714-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 7, 2016
Priority date	Sep 14, 2015
Publication date	Aug 1, 2017
Grant date	Aug 1, 2017

Abstract

A vehicle side door structure is provided including: an outer panel that configures a portion at a vehicle width direction outer side of a side door and that extends along a vehicle up-down direction and a vehicle front-rear direction; an inner panel that configures a portion at a vehicle width direction inner side of the side door, that extends along the vehicle up-down direction and the vehicle front-rear direction, and that, together with the outer panel, forms an internal space; an impact beam having both length direction end portions fixed to the inner panel, that is configured in a straight tube shape extending along the vehicle front-rear direction, and that is disposed at an outer panel side in the internal space; and a sensing bracket that is provided at the impact beam and that juts out from the impact beam toward the outer panel.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle side door structure comprising:
an outer panel that configures a portion at a vehicle width direction outer side of a side door and that extends along a vehicle up-down direction and a vehicle front-rear direction;
an inner panel that configures a portion at a vehicle width direction inner side of the side door, that extends along the vehicle up-down direction and the vehicle front-rear direction, and that, together with the outer panel, forms an internal space;
an impact beam having both length direction end portions fixed to the inner panel, that is configured in a straight tube shape extending along the vehicle front-rear direction, and that is disposed at an outer panel side in the internal space; and
a sensing bracket that is provided at the impact beam and that juts out from the impact beam toward the outer panel.

2. The vehicle side door structure of claim 1 , wherein
the sensing bracket is disposed, in a vehicle side-on view, further toward a vehicle rear side and a vehicle lower side than a center portion of the outer panel.

3. The vehicle side door structure of claim 1 , wherein:
a vehicle front-rear direction center portion of the outer panel curves so as to bulge toward the vehicle width direction outer side; and
a jutting out amount of the sensing bracket from the impact beam toward the outer panel increases on progression toward the vehicle front-rear direction center portion of the outer panel.

4. The vehicle side door structure of claim 2 , wherein:
a vehicle front-rear direction center portion of the outer panel curves so as to bulge toward the vehicle width direction outer side; and
a jutting out amount of the sensing bracket from the impact beam toward the outer panel increases on progression toward the vehicle front-rear direction center portion of the outer panel.

5. The vehicle side door structure of claim 1 , wherein:
the sensing bracket includes:
a side wall portion that faces the outer panel and extends along the length direction of the impact beam,
an upper wall portion that extends out from a peripheral edge at a vehicle upper side of the side wall portion toward the vehicle width direction inner side, and
a lower wall portion that extends out from a peripheral edge at a vehicle lower side of the side wall portion toward the vehicle width direction inner side; and

an upper side bead portion is formed at the upper wall portion so as to protrude out toward the vehicle upper side and run along an upper edge of the side wall portion, and a lower side bead portion is formed at the lower wall portion so as to protrude out toward the vehicle lower side and run along a lower edge of the side wall portion.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kindaichi Tetsumasa
• Fujita Toshimitsu

Classifications

• B60R21/0136

  responsive to actual contact with an obstacle {, e.g. to vehicle deformation, bumper displacement or bumper velocity relative to the vehicle (monitoring crash strength in combination with passenger seat detection B60R21/01558)} · CPC title

• B60J5/0443 Primary

  Beams · CPC title