US 12,257,964 B2
Vehicle body structure
Junya Harada, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jun. 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/829,514.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-101263 (JP), filed on Jun. 18, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0402449 A1, Dec. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. B60R 19/34 (2006.01); B60R 19/18 (2006.01); B60R 19/24 (2006.01)
CPC B60R 19/34 (2013.01) [B60R 19/18 (2013.01); B60R 19/24 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle body structure comprising an extension to be held between a bumper beam extending in a vehicle width direction and a side frame extending in a vehicle front-rear direction, wherein
the extension includes:
a fixing plate made of a plate member and fixed to a projecting end of the side frame so as to face in the vehicle front-rear direction;
a crushing body arranged on the fixing plate; and
a coupling strip made of a plate member, extending along the vehicle front-rear direction, and coupling an outer end in the vehicle width direction of the fixing plate with an outer end in the vehicle width direction of the bumper beam so as to integrally continue to the fixing plate and the bumper beam,
the coupling strip
has a substantially L-shape, with a portion thereof closer in the vehicle front-rear direction to an interior of a vehicle bent inward in the vehicle width direction,
is overlapped with, on an outer side in the vehicle width direction of, the fixing plate, and
has an end thereof closer in the vehicle front-rear direction to the interior joined to a plate surface, facing the interior, of the fixing plate.