Vehicle body lateral structure

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9809261-B2
Application number	US-201414916196-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 4, 2014
Priority date	Sep 4, 2013
Publication date	Nov 7, 2017
Grant date	Nov 7, 2017

Abstract

A vehicle body lateral structure includes a rear strake which is provided with a mounting part for being mounted on a plate-shaped member of a side sill through a rear inner fender, a bolt fastening surface which protrudes from the mounting part by a first protrusion amount toward the front of the vehicle, and a bolt through-hole which opens from the bolt fastening surface toward the front of the vehicle. The rear inner fender includes a cut-out section which has a larger diameter than the bolt fastening surface. A stepped bolt includes in its axial direction, a screw portion which screws into a nut fixed to the plate-shaped member of the side sill, a small-diameter cylindrical portion, and a flange portion which has a smaller diameter than the bolt fastening surface.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A vehicle body lateral structure comprising:
a wheel house which is provided on a vehicle body lateral part to house a tire;
an inner fender which covers a face of the wheel house, the face being on a side facing the tire; and
a strake which is bolted through the inner fender to a wheel house fastening hole provided on the wheel house, wherein
the strake includes a mounting part for being mounted through the inner fender to the wheel house fastening hole, a bolt fastening surface protruding from the mounting part by a predetermined protrusion amount toward the wheel house and capable of housing a head portion of a bolt, and a bolt through-hole formed on the bolt fastening surface;
the inner fender includes a cut-out section at a position corresponding to the bolt fastening surface, the cut-out section having a larger diameter than the bolt fastening surface; and
the bolt includes, in an axial direction in a following order, a screw portion which screws into the wheel house fastening hole, the head portion having a larger diameter than the screw portion and a smaller diameter than the bolt through-hole, and a flange portion having a larger diameter than the bolt through-hole and a smaller diameter than the bolt fastening surface, and wherein
the strake is bolted to the wheel house fastening hole to allow the bolt fastening surface to be sandwiched between the flange portion and the wheel house and to allow the inner fender to be sandwiched between the mounting part and the wheel house.

2. The vehicle body lateral structure according to claim 1 , wherein
the wheel house has a wheel house inner disposed inside in a vehicle width direction, and a wheel house outer disposed outside in the vehicle width direction, and includes an overlapped section in which an outer end portion in the vehicle width direction of the wheel house inner overlaps an inner end portion in the vehicle width direction of the wheel house outer, and wherein
an inner fastening hole provided on the outer end portion in the vehicle width direction of the wheel house inner and an outer fastening hole provided on the inner end portion in the vehicle width direction of the wheel house outer are overlapped to constitute the wheel house fastening hole.

3. The vehicle body lateral structure according to claim 1 , further comprising
a side sill which extends in a front-rear direction of the vehicle body in a position anterior to the wheel house, wherein
the side sill includes a side sill flange portion at a rear end thereof, and
the side sill flange portion includes a side sill fastening hole which is fastened by the bolt together with the wheel house fastening hole.

4. The vehicle body lateral structure according to claim 3 , further comprising
a nut into which the screw portion of the bolt screws, the nut being on a front face side of the side sill flange portion and coaxially with the wheel house fastening hole and the side sill fastening hole, wherein
the wheel house inner, the wheel house outer, and the side sill flange portion are sandwiched between the nut and the head portion.

5. The vehicle body lateral structure according to claim 1 , wherein
the mounting part includes a second mounting part for being mounted through the inner fender to the vehicle body, and
the inner fender is sandwiched between the second mounting part and the wheel house.

6. The vehicle body lateral structure according to claim 2 , further comprising
a side sill which extends in a front-rear direction of the vehicle body in a position anterior to the wheel house, wherein
the side sill includes a side sill flange portion at a rear end thereof, and
the side sill flange portion includes a side sill fastening hole which is fastened by the bolt together with the wheel house fastening hole.

Assignees

• Honda Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Emura Masahiko

Classifications

• B62D25/025

  Side sills thereof · CPC title

• B62D35/02

  Streamlining the undersurfaces {(B62D35/005, B62D35/007, B62D35/008 take precedence)} · CPC title

• B62D25/16 Primary

  Mud-guards or wings; Wheel cover panels (equipped with means for freeing wheels or tyres from foreign matter B60S) · CPC title

• B62D37/02 Primary

  by aerodynamic means · CPC title

• Y02T10/88

  Optimized components or subsystems, e.g. lighting, actively controlled glasses · CPC title