Abstract: A utility wall for a pickup truck includes: a first portion disposed along a first plane and including alternating first and second vertical columns of apertures, where: the first vertical columns include a vertically repeating pattern including: first rectangular apertures with longer sides oriented in a first direction; ovular apertures; and circular apertures; and the second vertical columns include second rectangular apertures with longer sides oriented in a second direction that is different than the first direction; second and third portions disposed along a second plane that is parallel to the first plane, the second and third portions including bolt apertures through which bolts can extend to bolt the utility wall to the pickup truck; a first c-shaped portion that connects a first end of the first portion to the second portion; and a second c-shaped portion that connects a second end of the first portion to the third portion.

Abstract: A vehicle bottom structure includes a slope device including a slope plate and guide rails, floor crossmembers, and a floor panel structure. The floor crossmembers are arranged at intervals in the vehicle front-rear direction. The slope device is provided between paired floor crossmembers, and the slope device is provided below a standing-ride region. The floor panel structure is provided over the paired floor crossmembers such that the floor panel structure is placed above the slope device and serves as a floor material in the standing-ride region. The floor panel structure includes panel segments extended in the vehicle front-rear direction so as to be provided over the paired floor crossmembers, and the panel segments are shorter than the whole length of the standing-ride region in the vehicle width direction. The panel segments are arranged side by side in the vehicle width direction in the standing-ride region.

Abstract: A fender apron includes: a front member; an upper member provided on the front member; a radiator side member connected to the front member; an upper lamp support member connecting the radiator side member and the upper member; and a side upper reinforce member connecting a first connection portion disposed between the front member and the radiator side member and a second connection portion disposed between the upper member and the upper lamp support member.

Abstract: A vehicle frame for a hybrid or electric vehicle includes a pair of longitudinally-extending side rails being positioned in spaced relation across a width direction of the vehicle frame to define a battery space therebetween. A side impact absorber is positioned on a first one of the pair of longitudinally-extending side rails. A first member of the side impact absorber is secured to an outboard sidewall of the first side rail to define a first impact energy-absorbing load path to the first side rail. The first member has a wave-form shape and extends laterally outward from the outboard sidewall to an outboard end of the side impact absorber. A second member of the side impact absorber is secured to the outboard sidewall of the first side rail, further from a height-wise center thereof, the second member defining a second impact energy-absorbing load path from the outboard end of the side impact absorber to the first side rail.

Abstract: A front vehicle-body structure is provided that is lightweight and reduces an impact load transmitted to lower limbs of an occupant. Embodiments include a transmission disposed in a vehicle front portion, a dash lower panel dividing an inside from an outside of a vehicle cabin in a vehicle rear of the transmission, and an organ type accelerator pedal disposed on a vehicle-width-direction inner side of the dash lower panel opposed to the transmission. The dash lower panel includes a panel rear portion in which the accelerator pedal is arranged, a panel front portion extending from the panel rear portion to a vehicle front upper side, and a fragile portion extending in a vehicle width direction along a boundary between the panel rear portion and the panel front portion, which is fragile compared to the panel rear portion and the panel front portion.

Abstract: A vehicle may include a body including a rear surface defining an opening, a door configured to open and close the opening, and a rear bumper reinforcement fixed to a portion of the body located below the opening via a crash box. The body may include a lower back reinforcement extending in a vehicle widthwise direction along a lower edge of the opening and at least a part of the lower back reinforcement may be located directly above the rear bumper reinforcement in a vehicle height direction.

Abstract: A side sill rigidity reinforcement structure for a vehicle is mounted an inside surface of a side sill of the vehicle, thereby improving rigidity against side collision. the side sill rigidity reinforcement structure includes: a side sill inner 11, a side sill outer 12 disposed outside the side sill inner 11 and bonded to the side sill inner 11, and a side sill reinforcement member 20 installed in a space between the side sill inner 11 and the side sill outer 12. In particular, the side sill reinforcement member 20 has a plurality of portions each having a closed section formed to penetrate in the width direction of the vehicle, and the portions are repeatedly formed in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle interior component comprising a cover rotatably coupled to a base at a pivot joint is disclosed. The component may comprise a mechanism comprising a projection engaging a first surface when the cover is closed and engaging a ramp as the cover is rotated between closed and open positions. The pivot joint may comprise an axle to provide an axis of rotation. The pivot joint may comprise the projection on the axle. One of the projection and the ramp may slide along the other as the cover opens and/or closes. The mechanism may comprise a cam surface and a follower. The base and/or cover may flex at the pivot joint. The cover may comprise a door, bin or sunglass bin. The component may comprise a console, center stack/console, floor console, overhead console, instrument panel, door panel, etc.

Abstract: A reinforcing element for reinforcing structural elements including at least one channel on an outer side. The outer side forms a shoulder next to the channel. Furthermore, the reinforcing element is provided for forming an open system in terms of an adhesion of the reinforcing element in the structural element, wherein, in a use state of the reinforcing element in the structural element, a space is formed between the shoulder of the reinforcing element and the structural element, which is open relative to an adjacent cavity of the structural element.

Abstract: The present impact absorbing member includes: a hat-shaped member having a hat top section; and a plate-shaped member facing the hat top section. A deformation guidance section is provided on a wall section of at least one of the hat top section and the plate-shaped member. The deformation guidance section includes: a first high strength section having relatively higher buckling resistance in the wall section; and a pair of low strength sections having relatively lower buckling resistance and arranged on both sides of the first high strength section therebetween in a view along the longitudinal direction. Furthermore, the impact absorbing member includes a pair of second high strength sections disposed on both sides of the deformation guidance section to be adjacent to the pair of low strength sections in a view along the longitudinal direction and having a higher buckling strength relative to the low strength sections.

Abstract: A floor structure for a vehicle includes: a center floor; a plurality of longitudinal members attachably disposed on a top surface of the center floor; a plurality of seat rails disposed in the plurality of longitudinal members, respectively; and a battery assembly arranged under the center floor.

Abstract: The invention relates to a front end panel assembly (100) for an electric vehicle (300), the assembly comprising: -an at least partially optically transparent laminate sheet (108) having side edges, comprising an optically transparent thermoplastic substrate and at least one protective layer; -a spacing structure (112) comprising a base (110) and a peripheral upstanding wall (120) extending from the base, wherein the upstanding wall connects to the laminate at or near at least part of the side edges of the laminate, such that a space (122) is formed and enclosed between the laminate sheet and the spacing structure, and wherein the at least one protective layer of the laminate faces away from the spacing structure.

Abstract: A vehicle storage structure is deformed and crushed, when an excessive load is inputted to a vehicle from outside, without any influence to functions of surrounding structures. The vehicle storage structure includes a case formed in a box shape having side walls, rising integrally with a periphery of a bottom plate, and an open top face, wherein when a line in a vehicle front-rear direction, connecting centers in an up-down direction of the bottom plate, is defined as a bottom-plate center line, and a line connecting a front end of the bottom-plate center line with a rear end of the bottom-plate center line is defined as a bottom-end connection line, the bottom-plate center line is a polygonal line having a ridge as a folding point and the ridge is positioned higher than the bottom-end connection line.

Abstract: A beam assembly includes a first beam that has a first tubular portion and a first projecting portion that extends from the first tubular portion. A second beam has a second tubular portion and a second projecting portion that extends from the second tubular portion. The elongated interior of the first tubular portion defines a first hollow area and the elongated interior of the second tubular portion defines a second hollow area. The first beam is attached to the second beam with the first projecting portion attached to the second tubular portion and the second projecting portion attached to the first tubular portion to define a third hollow area between the first and second projecting portions.

Abstract: A vehicle lower structure includes: a battery pack having first and second battery units and a battery cover; and a fuel tank that is arranged on a vehicle rear side to be higher than the first and second battery units. At positions under a floor panel, the first and second battery units are arranged on both sides in a vehicle width direction of a propeller shaft. The battery cover has a coupling section that couples first and second battery accommodation sections. The coupling section couples the first and second battery accommodation sections such that a vehicle rear side thereof is higher than the first and second battery accommodation sections, extends in the vehicle width direction at a position above the propeller shaft, and is arranged next to a vehicle front side of the fuel tank.

Abstract: The invention relates to a crash structure for a motor vehicle, comprising a carrier body, from the carrier surface of which at least one deformation unit formed integrally with the carrier body protrudes, which deformation unit is formed by at least two deformation elements arranged one over the other and connected to each other and by an impact surface, wherein: a longitudinal section of each deformation element has two longitudinal section surfaces lying opposite each other and following respective non-straight curves; the impact surface is spaced apart from the carrier surface by the deformation elements.

Abstract: A structural reinforcement, utilized to reinforce a structural joint of a vehicle, and method of reinforcing a structural joint of a vehicle. The structural reinforcement having a clamshell structure comprising two complimentary halves. The structural reinforcement further comprising an activatable composition.

Abstract: The vehicle body includes: a pair of left and right rear side members extending in a front-rear direction of the vehicle body, and a rear bumper beam which extends in a left-right direction of the vehicle body to be coupled to each rear side member at both ends, and bulges rearward toward a center of the left-right direction. The rear bumper beam has an intermediate body extending in the left-right direction at the center of the left-right direction, and inclined bodies which are displaced forward as expanding to the left and right toward the respectively corresponding rear side member from both ends of the intermediate body. A rearward surface of the intermediate body includes a vertical surface, and an inclined surface which is continuous from at least either an upper end or a lower end of the vertical surface and is displaced forward as separating from the vertical surface.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a vehicle body with a battery connected thereto including a lower panel of a vehicle which extends in a horizontal direction, and to which a battery case in which a battery is provided in an upper portion or a lower portion is coupled, a seat cross member configured to extend in a direction parallel to a transverse direction of the vehicle and located on an upper surface or a lower surface of the lower panel, a battery cross member provided in the battery case, configured to extend in the direction parallel to the transverse direction of the vehicle, and located to correspond to the seat cross member in a vertical direction of the vehicle, and a coupling device configured to simultaneously pass through to couple the lower panel, the seat cross member, and the battery cross member in the vertical direction of the vehicle.

Abstract: A motor vehicle bumper that has a transverse carrier which can be secured transversely relative to the longitudinal carriers of the motor vehicle by crash boxes. The transverse carrier has a shell member which is open toward the front side and which has a rear wall and two outer members which are both adjoined at the end side by an outwardly directed longitudinal flange. The shell member has a central longitudinal portion which is adjoined in the direction toward the two ends of the transverse carrier by a transition portion, an intermediate portion, a crash box connection portion and an end portion. The shell member is closed at least over the majority of the length thereof by a closure plate which forms the front side. In the transition portions, the shell member has a minimum depth which is less than the maximum depth in the central longitudinal portion.