VEHICLE BODY STRUCTURE WITH IMPACT ABSORBING PART

• US 20170106909A1
• Filed: 10/10/2016
• Published: 04/20/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: DAIDO, Kazuhiro, ISHIZAKI, Tatsuya, HOJO, Akira
• Granted Patent: US 9,855,971 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 19/02 Bumpers, i.e. impact receiving or absorbing members for protecting vehicles or fending off blows from other vehicles or objects B60R19/56 takes precedence; initiating brake action by contact of bumper with an external object B60T7/22; for rail vehicles B61F19/04; safety equipment for cycles B62J27/00; integral with waterborne vessels or specially adapted therefor B63B59/02
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 19/34 destroyed upon impact, e.g. one-shot type
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/0004 Frontal collision
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2021/0023 Offset collision
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 21/152 Front or rear frames
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 25/082 Engine compartments

Abstract

A vehicle body structure includes a frame impact absorbing part extending from the side of a left front side frame in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle body. The frame impact absorbing part includes first and second frame bending members that form a frame tubular body, upper and lower frame flanges projecting outward from the frame tubular body, upper and lower first fragile portions that divide the frame flanges in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle body, and a plurality of frame rigid portions formed at a rear end of the frame tubular body on the rear side of the vehicle body with respect to the first fragile portions.

Claims

1. A vehicle body structure with an impact absorbing part, which includes an impact absorbing part extending in a longitudinal direction of a vehicle body from an end side of a vehicle body frame member,

wherein the impact absorbing part comprises:

a first bending member bent into a substantially U-shaped sectional shape;

a second bending member bent into a substantially U-shaped sectional shape and connected to the first bending member so as to form a hollow tubular body;

a flange projecting outward from the tubular body and extending in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle body up to a side of the vehicle body frame member on a lateral side of one of the first bending member and the second bending member;

a first fragile portion configured to divide the flange in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle body and serve as a starting point of deformation upon a light collision; and

a rigid portion formed on the side of the vehicle body frame member with respect to the first fragile portion.

2. The structure according to claim 1, wherein the impact absorbing part comprises a second fragile portion on a collision load input side with respect to the flange.

3. The structure according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle body frame member comprises a front side frame arranged on an outside in a vehicle width direction and extending in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle body,

the impact absorbing part comprises a frame impact absorbing part provided on a side of a front end of the front side frame,

an upper member is provided on an outside of the front side frame in the vehicle width direction,

a member impact absorbing part is provided on an outside of the impact absorbing part in the vehicle width direction on a side of a front end of the upper member, and

the member impact absorbing part comprises:

a hollow member tubular body extending in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle body; and

a third fragile portion formed in the member tubular body and arranged substantially at the same position as the first fragile portion in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle body.

4. The structure according to claim 3, wherein the member impact absorbing part comprises:

a member flange projecting outward from the member tubular body and extending up to a side of the upper member in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle body on the side of the upper member with respect to the third fragile portion; and

a member rigid portion formed on the side of the upper member with respect to the third fragile portion.

5. The structure according to claim 3, further comprising a bumper beam with a slope portion arranged at end portions of the frame impact absorbing part and the member impact absorbing part,

wherein the member impact absorbing part comprises an inner wall on an inside in the vehicle width direction, and

the inner wall is formed to curve such that an end portion of the inner wall comes close to the frame impact absorbing part toward the bumper beam.

6. The structure according to claim 4, wherein the member impact absorbing part comprises a fourth fragile portion on an outside of the member tubular body in the vehicle width direction.

7. The structure according to claim 3, wherein the frame impact absorbing part comprises a second fragile portion on a collision load input side with respect to the flange, and

in the frame impact absorbing part,

the tubular body is formed into a substantially octagonal section so as to form an upper outer ridge portion and a lower outer ridge portion on an outer side of the tubular body in the vehicle width direction,

an end portion of each of the upper outer ridge portion and the lower outer ridge portion is formed to curve such that the end portion comes close to the member impact absorbing part toward the bumper beam, and

the second fragile portion is provided in an outer wall on the outside of the tubular body in the vehicle width direction at the end portion of each of the upper outer ridge portion and the lower outer ridge portion.

8. The structure according to claim 5, wherein the bumper beam comprises:

a bumper front wall formed on a front side of the vehicle body;

a bumper upper portion projecting from an upper side of the front wall 122 to a rear side of the vehicle body; and

a bumper lower portion projecting from a lower side of the front wall to the rear side of the vehicle body,

the bumper beam is formed into a substantially U-shaped sectional shape by the bumper front wall, the bumper upper portion, and the bumper lower portion, and

the end portions of the frame impact absorbing part and the member impact absorbing part abut against the bumper front wall and are welded to the bumper front wall, a rear side of the bumper upper portion, and a rear side of the bumper lower portion.