US 11,702,142 B2
Front vehicle-body structure of vehicle
Kosuke Mukaigawa, Hiroshima (JP); Hiroto Kido, Hiroshima (JP); Satoshi Nakamura, Hiroshima (JP); Fumihiro Kurohara, Hiroshima (JP); and Satoshi Okano, Hiroshima (JP)
Assigned to MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION, Hiroshima (JP)
Filed by Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima (JP)
Filed on Nov. 9, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/521,878.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-191012 (JP), filed on Nov. 17, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0153352 A1, May 19, 2022
Int. Cl. B62D 21/15 (2006.01); B62D 25/08 (2006.01); B60R 19/18 (2006.01); B62D 21/11 (2006.01); B60R 19/24 (2006.01)
CPC B62D 21/152 (2013.01) [B62D 25/085 (2013.01); B60R 19/18 (2013.01); B60R 19/24 (2013.01); B60R 2019/186 (2013.01); B62D 21/11 (2013.01); B62D 21/155 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A front vehicle-body structure of a vehicle, comprising:
a suspension subframe including a pair of left and right-side frames extending in a vehicle front-rear direction;
a front cross member connecting front-end portions of the side frames in a vehicle width direction;
a front beam member extending in the vehicle width direction on a vehicle front side relative to the suspension subframe;
a pair of left and right connecting members connecting front-end portions of the pair of left and right-side frames to the front beam member in the vehicle front-rear direction;
a high-rigidity portion having a higher rigidity than other portions of the side frame at a connecting portion between the front-end portion of each of the side frames and the front cross member, wherein
the front beam member has a side end portion extending on a vehicle-width-direction outer side relative to a connecting position with each of the pair of left and right connecting members; and
a protrusion portion protruding from the side end portion toward a vehicle rear side, the protrusion portion being configured to come into contact with the high-rigidity portion from the vehicle-width-direction outer side when a collision load from the vehicle front side is input to the side end portion.