US 11,939,899 B2
Vehicle rear structure
Takuya Oshima, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/666,593.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-021799 (JP), filed on Feb. 15, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0260003 A1, Aug. 18, 2022
Int. Cl. F01N 13/18 (2010.01)
CPC F01N 13/1822 (2013.01) 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle rear structure comprising:
a rear exterior member that is made of a resin and provided at a rear portion of a vehicle body;
a metal exhaust finisher provided at a terminating end portion of an exhaust pipe; and
a reinforcing block to which the exhaust finisher is fixed and which is attached to the rear exterior member,
wherein the reinforcing block includes:
an upper side portion that straddles an upper portion of the exhaust finisher in a vehicle width direction;
an inner side portion extending downward from an inner region of the upper side portion in the vehicle width direction; and
an outer side portion extending downward from an outer region of the upper side portion in the vehicle width direction,
wherein one of the inner side portion and the outer side portion of the reinforcing block that has at least a longer vertical extension length is formed such that a cross-section thereof in a direction intersecting the extension direction is formed in substantially a U shape.