US 12,126,076 B2
Vehicle skeleton structure
Hiroyuki Kurokawa, Nisshin (JP); Shintaro Kitakata, Nisshin (JP); and Koichiro Ueno, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Nov. 17, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/989,118.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-193591 (JP), filed on Nov. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0170607 A1, Jun. 1, 2023
Int. Cl. H01Q 1/32 (2006.01)
CPC H01Q 1/3275 (2013.01) 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle skeleton structure comprising:
a roof reinforcement that configures a part of a roof section of a vehicle body, the roof reinforcement extending in a vehicle width direction, the roof reinforcement having a closed cross-sectional shape when viewed from the vehicle width direction, the roof reinforcement being configured such that a communication device capable of at least one of sending or receiving of radio waves can be disposed at an inner side thereof, and a penetrating section being formed at a portion at a vehicle upper side of the roof reinforcement, the roof reinforcement including:
an upper panel including:
an upper wall section that extends in the vehicle width direction and a vehicle front-rear direction; and
a lower panel positioned below the communication device;
a lid member positioned above the upper panel that closes off the penetrating section, the lid member being configured by a material capable of transmitting radio waves; and
a cylindrical section extending from the penetrating section toward a vehicle lower side that is provided integrally with the roof reinforcement at a peripheral edge of the penetrating section, wherein the cylindrical section includes a proximate end connected to the upper wall section at a peripheral edge of the penetrating section, and an opposite distal end, and wherein the cylindrical section extends linearly from the proximate end to the distal end towards a vehicle lower side.