US 12,005,959 B2
Body of vehicle
Kyosuke Kawase, Okazaki (JP); and Satoshi Ikeda, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP); and SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP); and SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/705,590.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-064160 (JP), filed on Apr. 5, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0315112 A1, Oct. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. B62D 21/15 (2006.01); B62D 25/20 (2006.01)
CPC B62D 21/15 (2013.01) [B62D 25/20 (2013.01); B62D 21/157 (2013.01); B62D 25/2018 (2013.01); B62D 25/2027 (2013.01); B62D 25/2036 (2013.01); B62D 25/2045 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A body of a vehicle, the body comprising:
a center tunnel that extends in a front-rear direction of the vehicle;
a floor panel that extends from the center tunnel to both sides of the vehicle in a right-left direction;
a floor cross member that is provided on an upper face of the floor panel and that extends in the right-left direction of the vehicle, straddling the center tunnel;
a reinforcing member joined to an upper face of the center tunnel and to a front face of the floor cross member;
a forward tunnel reinforcement that extends in the front-rear direction of the vehicle and that is provided on a lower face of the center tunnel;
a rearward tunnel reinforcement that extends in the front-rear direction of the vehicle and that is provided on the lower face of the center tunnel, the rearward tunnel reinforcement located rearward from the forward tunnel reinforcement; and
an overlap portion in which the forward tunnel reinforcement and the rearward tunnel reinforcement overlap each other, the overlap portion provided downward from the floor cross member.