US 11,697,329 B2
Vehicle door structure
Atsushi Hasegawa, Wako (JP); Yoshihiro Fujimura, Tokyo (JP); Yasuhisa Egawa, Tokyo (JP); Takuro Nishida, Tokyo (JP); and Yumi Saito, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 26, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/681,725.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-059323 (JP), filed on Mar. 31, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0314756 A1, Oct. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. B60J 5/04 (2006.01)
CPC B60J 5/0444 (2013.01) [B60J 5/043 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle door structure comprising:
a horizontal beam arranged inside a door of a vehicle to extend in a vehicle front-rear direction; and
a vertical beam arranged inside the door to extend in a vehicle up-down direction, wherein
a vehicle front-side end and a vehicle rear-side end of the horizontal beam are each fixed to a door frame,
the vertical beam includes an upper vertical beam extending upward from the horizontal beam and a lower vertical beam extending downward from the horizontal beam,
the upper vertical beam and the lower vertical beam each are fixed in a cantilever fashion to an intermediate portion of the horizontal beam in an axial direction thereof,
the upper vertical beam and the lower vertical beam each includes a beam body portion and a coupling portion provided at an end of the beam body portion,
the coupling portion forms an L-cross sectional shape, and includes a flat plate portion and a bent portion integrally formed with the flat plate portion and bent in the vehicle up-down direction substantially perpendicularly from the outer end of the flat plate portion in the vehicle width direction,
a dimension of the flat plate portion in the vehicle front-rear direction is larger than a dimension of the end of the beam body portion in the vehicle front-rear direction,
the flat plate portion is joined to an upper face and a lower face of the horizontal beam, respectively, and
the bent portion is joined to an outer side face of the horizontal beam in the vehicle width direction.