US 11,787,478 B2
Automobile inner panel and automobile panel
Ryuichi Nishimura, Tokyo (JP); Koichi Hamada, Tokyo (JP); Atsuo Koga, Tokyo (JP); Takeshi Kawachi, Tokyo (JP); Yasunori Sawa, Tokyo (JP); and Tohru Yoshida, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/422,129
Filed by NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Dec. 27, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/051435
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 9, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/145198, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 16, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-002993 (JP), filed on Jan. 10, 2019; application No. 2019-002994 (JP), filed on Jan. 10, 2019; application No. 2019-002995 (JP), filed on Jan. 10, 2019; and application No. 2019-144365 (JP), filed on Aug. 6, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0126926 A1, Apr. 28, 2022
Int. Cl. B62D 25/12 (2006.01); B60R 21/34 (2011.01)
CPC B62D 25/12 (2013.01) [B60R 2021/343 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An automobile inner panel, comprising:
a plurality of sub-units each including a flange, an inclined wall continuous with the flange, and a bottom portion continuous with the inclined wall and separated from the flange,
wherein:
the bottom portions of the sub-units which are adjacent to each other are butted against each other and are directly continuous with each other;
a maximum value of a distance between two of the flanges of two of the sub-units in which the bottom portions are arranged separated from each other and which are adjacent to each other is 250 mm or less; and
at least at one part of an outermost circumferential sub-unit, which is the sub-unit arranged adjacent to an outer circumferential edge of the automobile inner panel, a height from the bottom portion to the flange is lower than a height from the bottom portion to the flange in another sub-unit.