FRONT BODY STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE

• Main Author: IINO ATSUSHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 17.08.2006
• Subjects: PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL; VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISEPROVIDED FOR

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a front body structure of a vehicle capable of preventing its airbag from making malfunction even in case the components constituting the body front part are formed on module system from a reinforced resin material. SOLUTION: An airbag sensor 100 is mounted on a radiator panel 2 installed in the front of the body 1, and a bumper supporting bracket 21 made of fiber-reinforced resin is attached fast to the front of the radiator panel 2. When an impact load is impressed on the forefront face 22d of the bracket 21 at the initial stage of a head-on collision, a tear-apart stress is concentrated on the forefront of a slit 22f formed in a side plate 22e, and an upper supporting part 22a and a lower supporting part 22c continued to the side plate 22e are torn apart up and down and destroyed. Because the bracket 21 is destroyed by the tear-apart stress at the initial stage of collision, the G-wave is free of inclusion of a noise component varying vigorously, and it is possible to prevent the airbag sensor 100 from making malfunction. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI