A vehicle body transformable front section structure including: a front side member; a crash box that is configured including a tube shaped section having mountain portions and valley portions provided alternately along the vehicle front-rear direction and capable of extending in the vehicle front-rear direction, and that is attached to an end portion at a vehicle front side of the front side member; bumper reinforcement; a collision prediction section; and a gas generator; the tube shaped section being configured including a first wall portion and a second wall portion respectively disposed connected to each other in the vehicle front-rear direction through each of the mountain portions; and a recess being formed on an inner face side of the tube shaped portion in at least one out of the first wall portion or the second wall portion so as to enlarge the surface area of the inner face.
Vehicle body transformable front section structure
2017-07-11
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B60R Fahrzeuge, Fahrzeugausstattung oder Fahrzeugteile, soweit nicht anderweitig vorgesehen , VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR |