Installation structure for a side sill garnish

• US 7,040,682 B2
• Filed: 10/08/2004
• Issued: 05/09/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Fujita, Kenji, Tokumoto, Daisuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Pedder, Dennis H.
• Application Number:
  US10/979,660
• Publication Number:
  US 20050093343A1
• Time in Patent Office: 578 Days
• Field of Search: 296/1.08, 296/209, 527/165
• US Class Current: 296/1.08
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 13/04 External Ornamental or guard strips; Ornamental inscriptive devices thereon fastening strips or bars to sheets or plates by means of clips F16B5/12
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2013/046 Foot boards

Abstract

A side sill garnish comprises a side covering part that covers the side part of a side sill outside the vehicle in the transverse direction; a side installation part that is installed on the side part of the side sill; a bottom covering part that extends from the bottom edge of the side covering part toward the internal direction of the vehicle along the transverse direction and covers the bottom of the side sill; a bottom installation part that is installed on the bottom of the side sill; and wherein the bottom installation part extends from the side covering part toward the bottom of the side sill separately from the bottom covering part.

Claims

1. An installation structure for a side sill garnish installed on a side sill, wherein the side sill garnish comprises:

a side covering part that covers a side part of the side sill outside the vehicle in the transverse direction;

a side installation part that is installed on the side part of the side sill;

a bottom covering part that extends from the bottom edge of the side covering part toward the internal direction along the transverse direction of the vehicle and covers the bottom of the side sill;

a bottom installation part that is installed on the bottom of the side sill that extends from the side covering part toward the bottom of the side sill, and that is disposed above and separately from the bottom covering part; and

a notch part formed in the bottom covering part below the bottom installation part, the notch part allowing a fixing element to pass through the bottom covering part and into the bottom installation part.

2. An installation structure for a side sill garnish according to claim 1, wherein the bottom installation part is formed separately from the side covering part, and is installed on the side covering part.