FRONT BODY STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE

• Main Authors: SHIMADA TOMOHIRO, KURODA SUSUMU, YOSHIURA REIKO, TASHIRO KUNIYOSHI, WATANABE SHIGEAKI, NAKAZA NORIHIRO, KITO MASATOKI, MIYAZAKI HAYATO, EGUCHI SATORU, TAKAHASHI RYUICHI, TAKESHIGE KAZUNORI, O TSUTOMU
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 09.09.2021
• Subjects: LAND VEHICLES FOR TRAVELLING OTHERWISE THAN ON RAILS; MOTOR VEHICLES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRAILERS; TRANSPORTING

To ensure both pedestrian protection performance which is exerted through deformation of a bracket, which links an engine hood with a fender, occurring when a pedestrian collides with an area around a border between the engine hood and fender, and fender support rigidity against a small load to be inputted by pushing the fender down with a hand.SOLUTION: A bracket 10 is included to couple an apron reinforcement 5 located below an engine hood 3 to an upper part of a fender 4 disposed outside in a vehicle width direction of the engine hood 3. The bracket 10 includes a fender fixture 11 to be fixed to a flange 4ub included in an upper end 4u of the fender 4, a body 12 extended below from the fender fixture 11 and located outside in the vehicle width direction of the apron reinforcement 5, and an apron reinforcement fixture 13 that is extended from inside in the vehicle width direction of the body 12 toward the apron reinforcement 5 and fixed to the apron reinforcement 5. The body 12 has a bend 15 that bends toward outside in the vehicle width direction.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】歩行者がボンネットとフェンダーの境界周辺に衝突した際のボンネットとフェンダーとを連結するブラケットの変形による歩行者保護性能と、フェンダーの下方への手押し等により入力される小荷重に対するフェンダー支持剛性とを両立すること。【解決手段】ボンネット３の下方に設けられたエプロンレイン５と、ボンネット３の車幅方向外側に設けられたフェンダー４の上部と、を連結するブラケット１０とを備え、ブラケット１０は、フェンダー４の上端部４ｕに有するフランジ部４ｕｂに固定されるフェンダー固定部１１と、フェンダー固定部１１から下方に延びエプロンレイン５の車幅方向外側に位置する本体部１２と、本体部１２の車幅方向内側からエプロンレイン５の側へ延びエプロンレイン５に固定されるエプロンレイン固定部１３とを備え、本体部１２は車幅方向外側に向けて湾曲する湾曲部１５を備えたものである。【選択図】図１