Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vehicle lower section structure
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Application No.: US15264874Application Date: 2016-09-14
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Publication No.: US09884659B2Publication Date: 2018-02-06
- Inventor: Yoichiro Onishi
- Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Toyota-shi
- Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Toyota-shi
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2015-215020 20151030
- Main IPC: B60N99/00
- IPC: B60N99/00 ; B62D25/20 ; B62D21/03 ; B62D25/04

Abstract:
A vehicle lower section structure including: rockers; a floor tunnel; and a floor cross member that extends along the vehicle width direction and couples the rocker and the floor tunnel together, that includes an upper wall, a front wall extending downward from a front end portion of the upper wall, and a rear wall extending downward from a rear end portion of the upper wall that together with the floor panel configure a closed cross-section, wherein of the front wall and the rear wall, a first cutout portion is formed in a lower edge of an end portion at the rocker side of the wall further from a center pillar, and a second cutout portion that is smaller than the first cutout portion is formed in a lower edge of an end portion at the rocker side of the wall closer to the center pillar.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170120959A1 VEHICLE LOWER SECTION STRUCTURE Public/Granted day:2017-05-04
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