Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vehicular energy absorption structure
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Application No.: US15221954Application Date: 2016-07-28
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Publication No.: US09932006B2Publication Date: 2018-04-03
- Inventor: Hiroki Hashimoto , Toshihiro Goto , Shintaro Kitakata , Shigenori Hashida
- Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Toyota
- Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Toyota
- Agency: Oliff PLC
- Priority: JP2015-188563 20150925
- Main IPC: B60R19/34
- IPC: B60R19/34 ; F16F7/12 ; F16F7/00

Abstract:
A vehicular energy absorption structure includes a hollow tubular energy absorption body made from a fiber reinforced resin, an opposing face (e.g., an attachment plate) that is provided facing an axial direction end portion of the energy absorption body, and against which the energy absorption body is crushed from the axial direction end portion during a vehicle collision, and a guide section (e.g., peripheral wall, ribs) that projects from the opposing face and that is disposed in an interior of the energy absorption body. The guide section includes an abutting section (e.g., abutting walls) that contacts a wall of the energy absorption body from the inner side of the wall during the vehicle collision, the abutting section being separated from the opposing face by an opening in the axial direction of the energy absorption body.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170088075A1 VEHICULAR ENERGY ABSORPTION STRUCTURE Public/Granted day:2017-03-30
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