US 12,252,086 B2
Vehicle horn configuration structure
Takahiro Daibo, Tokyo (JP); Hiroshi Suzuki, Tokyo (JP); and Yusuke Takeuchi, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Honda Montor Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Oct. 5, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/960,761.
Claims priority of application No. 202111180052.8 (CN), filed on Oct. 11, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0109981 A1, Apr. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. B60R 19/18 (2006.01); B60Q 5/00 (2006.01); B60R 19/02 (2006.01); B60R 19/48 (2006.01)
CPC B60R 19/18 (2013.01) [B60Q 5/00 (2013.01); B60R 19/023 (2013.01); B60R 19/48 (2013.01); B60R 2019/1806 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle horn configuration structure, comprising:
a bumper beam arranged at a front of a vehicle and extending in a vehicle left-right direction;
a bumper cover arranged at a position forward of the bumper beam in a vehicle front-rear direction;
a horn component arranged at a position rearward of the bumper beam in the vehicle front-rear direction, and arranged at a position so that a sound-emitting part faces downward in a vehicle up-down direction and is located above a lower end of the bumper beam; and
a duct component extending in the vehicle front-rear direction and arranged at a position located between the horn component and the bumper cover in the vehicle front-rear direction to guide a sound of the horn component to an opening provided on the bumper cover, wherein
a lower surface of the duct component has an inclined surface that is inclined rearward and upward, and
the inclined surface has a hole that opens rearward in the vehicle front-rear direction.