Vehicle front portion structure

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9902350-B2
Application number	US-201615240338-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 18, 2016
Priority date	Sep 8, 2015
Publication date	Feb 27, 2018
Grant date	Feb 27, 2018

Abstract

An upper and lower pair of first beads that extend in a longitudinal direction are formed at an inner side wall of a front side spacer. The first beads project to the vehicle width direction outer side. Therefore, when a collision load diagonally to the rear-left side is inputted to a front end portion of the inner side wall, the first beads act to support the inner side wall adjacent above and below the first beads from the vehicle width direction outer side. Accordingly, tilting deformation of the inner side wall toward the vehicle width direction outer side at the beginning of a micro-wrap collision of a vehicle is suppressed. An overall dimension in the vertical direction of the general portions of the inner side wall is specified to be greater than an overall dimension in the vertical direction of the first beads.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle front portion structure comprising:
a bumper reinforcement that extends in a vehicle width direction at a front end portion of a vehicle;
a front side member that extends in the vehicle longitudinal direction, a front end portion of the front side member being joined to a vehicle width direction outer side portion of the bumper reinforcement;
a protruding portion provided integrally with, or as a separate body at, a rear wall of the bumper reinforcement, the protruding portion protruding to the vehicle width direction outer side from a vehicle width direction outer side end of the bumper reinforcement;
a front side spacer provided at the protruding portion, the front side spacer projecting to the vehicle front side from the protruding portion;
a rear side spacer provided at a side wall at the vehicle width direction outer side of the front side member, the rear side spacer being disposed at the vehicle rear side of the protruding portion;
one or a plurality of a first bead formed at an inner side wall that structures a side wall at the vehicle width direction inner side of the front side spacer, the each first bead extending in the vehicle longitudinal direction and projecting to the vehicle width direction outer side from the inner side wall; and
one or a plurality of a second bead formed at an outer side wall that structures a side wall at the vehicle width direction outer side of the front side spacer, the each second bead extending in the vehicle longitudinal direction and projecting to the vehicle width direction outer side from the outer side wall,
wherein an overall dimension in the vertical direction of a general portion of the inner side wall at which the first bead is not formed is specified to be larger than an overall dimension in the vertical direction of the one or plurality of first bead, and an overall dimension in the vertical direction of a general portion of the outer side wall at which the second bead is not formed is specified to be larger than an overall dimension in the vertical direction of the one or plurality of second bead.

2. The vehicle front portion structure according to claim 1 , wherein a front wall portion of the rear side spacer is joined to the protruding portion.

3. The vehicle front portion structure according to claim 2 , wherein a vertical dimension of each general portion of the inner side wall is specified to be larger than a vertical dimension of each first bead, and a vertical dimension of each general portion of the outer side wall is specified to be larger than a vertical dimension of each second bead.

4. The vehicle front portion structure according to claim 2 , wherein numbers of the first bead and the second bead are equal, and vehicle vertical positions of the first bead and the second bead coincide.

5. The vehicle front portion structure according to claim 1 , wherein a vertical dimension of each general portion of the inner side wall is specified to be larger than a vertical dimension of each first bead, and a vertical dimension of each general portion of the outer side wall is specified to be larger than a vertical dimension of each second bead.

6. The vehicle front portion structure according to claim 5 , wherein numbers of the first bead and the second bead are equal, and vehicle vertical positions of the first bead and the second bead coincide.

7. The vehicle front portion structure according to claim 1 , wherein numbers of the first bead and the second bead are equal, and vehicle vertical positions of the first bead and the second bead coincide.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ito Keita
• Takahashi Yuji
• Hayashi Yusuke
• Sotoyama Yoshitaka
• Matsumoto Yousuke

Classifications

• B60R19/04 Primary

  formed from more than one section {in a side-by-side arrangement} · CPC title

• B62D21/152

  Front or rear frames · CPC title

• B60R19/18

  {characterised by the cross-section;} Means within the bumper to absorb impact · CPC title

• B60R2019/186

  Additional energy absorbing means supported on bumber beams, e.g. cellular structures or material · CPC title