A cargo box for a pickup truck includes a bed and a pair of sidewalls connected to opposing longitudinal sides of the bed. Each of the sidewalls has an inner panel and an outer panel. The outer panel has a wall portion, a lower portion, and an upper portion connected to the inner panel to join the inner and outer panels together. At least one brace is disposed in one of the sidewalls and includes a first flange connected to the upper portion, a second flange connected to the lower portion, and a third flange connected to an interior surface of the wall portion.
Stiffening brace for pickup truck box outer panel
2017-09-12
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B62D MOTOR VEHICLES , Motorfahrzeuge |
OUTER PLATE PANEL STIFFENING STRUCTURE AND STIFFENING OUTER PLATE PANEL
European Patent Office | 2019
|European Patent Office | 2019
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