US 12,122,238 B2
Vehicle body structure
Takayuki Kimura, Hiroshima (JP); Takehiro Kamei, Hiroshima (JP); Isao Toda, Hiroshima (JP); Haruo Ohe, Hiroshima (JP); Hironobu Hashiguchi, Hiroshima (JP); Hiroshi Tanaka, Hiroshima (JP); Masaya Hiramatsu, Hiroshima (JP); Masanobu Fukushima, Hiroshima (JP); and Takao Fukuda, Hiroshima (JP)
Assigned to MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION, Hiroshima (JP)
Filed by MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION, Hiroshima (JP)
Filed on Jan. 26, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/584,872.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-055397 (JP), filed on Mar. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0305915 A1, Sep. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. B60K 37/00 (2024.01); B62D 25/04 (2006.01)
CPC B60K 37/00 (2013.01) [B62D 25/04 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle body structure of a vehicle, comprising:
a vehicle interior;
a dash panel provided at a front of the vehicle interior to divide the vehicle interior and a power house storing a power train from each other in a vehicle front-rear direction; and
a cowl panel provided above the dash panel and extending in a vehicle width direction,
the dash panel including a bulge portion bulging from a center portion of the dash panel in the vehicle width direction toward a rear of the vehicle,
a portion of the bulge portion between front portions of a left wall portion and a right wall portion in the vehicle width direction being open forward,
the dash panel including a reinforcement disposed between the left wall portion and the right wall portion, the reinforcement being forward of a rear end wall portion of the bulge portion at a rear end portion of the vehicle,
the rear end wall portion of the bulge portion being positioned at a rear of a rear end portion at a center portion of the cowl panel in the vehicle width direction,
the reinforcement having a plate shape extending in an up-down direction and in the vehicle width direction,
a left end portion of the reinforcement in the vehicle width direction being fixed to an inner surface of the left wall portion of the bulge portion,
a right end portion of the reinforcement in the vehicle width direction being fixed to an inner surface of the right wall portion of the bulge portion,
the reinforcement having a deformation inducing portion inducing bending deformation of the reinforcement in response to a rearward load of the power train when the power train moves rearward upon a collision.