JP7103488B2 - Rear structure of the car body - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a vehicle body rear structure.

A wheel house for accommodating the rear wheels of the vehicle is formed at the rear of the vehicle body of an automobile or the like. The wheel house is formed by a wheel house outer panel and a wheel house inner panel that cover the rear wheels of the vehicle from the outside and the inside of the vehicle, respectively.

An absorber mounting portion for mounting, for example, a rear shock absorber is provided on the upper part of the wheel house inner panel, whereby the rear shock absorber is supported. The lower part of the wheel house inner panel is joined to the side members. The side members are arranged along the side edges of the rear floor panel forming the floor surface at the rear of the vehicle body and extend in the front-rear direction of the vehicle. Therefore, the wheel house inner panel is indirectly connected to the rear floor panel by being joined to the side member.

In such a vehicle body rear structure, when a load is received from the rear shock absorber, stress may be concentrated near the joint between the wheel house inner panel and the rear floor panel, and cracks may occur. For this reason, it is necessary to ensure rigidity in the vehicle body rear structure in which the absorber mounting portion is provided on the upper part of the wheel house inner panel.

Patent Document 1 describes a rear body structure of a vehicle in which a damper support portion for supporting an upper end portion of a suspension damper is provided in a rear wheel house. In this rear body structure, the first brace, the second brace, and the outer surface side reinforcing material are provided on the front side, the rear side, and the upper part of the rear wheel house, respectively.

The first brace and the second brace hang down from the vicinity of the damper support portion at the vehicle front position and the vehicle rear side of the rear wheel house, respectively. The lower parts of the first brace and the second brace are fixed to the rear side frame. The outer surface reinforcing material is the upper part of the rear wheel house located between the first brace and the second brace, and connects the rear wheel house and the roof side rail.

According to Patent Document 1, the first brace and the second brace receive the load input from the suspension damper, and the load is further transmitted to the roof side rail by the connecting member, so that the rigidity of the rear part of the vehicle body can be improved. There is.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2012-6507

However, in the vehicle body rear structure described in Patent Document 1, the rigidity is only increased as a whole by providing a plurality of braces and reinforcing members which are separate members on the wheel house inner panel. That is, in the wheel house inner panel, only two braces are joined before and after the absorber mounting portion between the absorber mounting portion and the side member, and the rigidity between the two braces is sufficient. Not secured.

In view of such a problem, the present invention provides a vehicle body rear structure capable of increasing the rigidity between the absorber mounting portion and the side member of the wheel house inner panel and reducing the deformation of the vehicle body due to the load received from the rear shock absorber. It is intended to be provided.

In order to solve the above problems, a typical configuration of the vehicle body rear structure according to the present invention includes a wheel house outer panel that covers the rear wheels of the vehicle from the outside and the inside of the vehicle to form a wheel house for accommodating the rear wheels. A rear structure of the vehicle body equipped with a wheel house inner panel, with side members arranged along the side edges of the rear floor panel forming the floor surface at the rear of the vehicle body and extending in the front-rear direction, and a wheel house extending from above the wheel house inner panel. It is further equipped with an absorber attachment part that is joined to the inside of the car of the inner panel and further extends to the side member and is joined to the side member, and an absorber attachment part that is placed on the upper part of the absorberrin force and to which the rear shock absorber is attached. The wheel house inner panel is a panel connection that connects the front panel and the rear panel, which are joined to the front and rear of the absorber force, respectively, and the front panel and the rear panel between the absorber mounting portion and the side member. It is characterized by including a part.

According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a vehicle body rear structure capable of increasing the rigidity between the absorber mounting portion and the side member in the wheel house inner panel and reducing the deformation of the vehicle body due to the load received from the rear shock absorber. ..

It is a figure which shows schematic the vehicle to which the vehicle body rear structure which concerns on embodiment of this invention is applied. It is a figure which shows the internal structure of the vehicle body rear structure shown in the area A of FIG. FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along line BB of the rear structure of the vehicle body of FIG. FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line CC of the rear structure of the vehicle body of FIG.

A typical configuration of the vehicle body rear structure according to the embodiment of the present invention is a wheel house outer panel and a wheel house inner that cover the rear wheels of the vehicle from the outside and the inside of the vehicle to form a wheel house for accommodating the rear wheels. A rear body structure with panels, side members arranged along the side edges of the rear floor panel forming the floor surface at the rear of the vehicle body and extending in the front-rear direction, and wheel house inner panels extending from above the wheel house inner panels. The wheel house inner is further equipped with an absorber line that is joined to the inside of the car and further extends to the side member and is joined to the side member, and an absorber mounting part that is placed on the upper part of the absorber line force and to which the rear shock absorber is mounted. The panel includes a front panel and a rear panel that are joined to the front and rear of the absorber force, respectively, and a panel connecting portion that connects the front panel and the rear panel between the absorber mounting portion and the side member. It is characterized by including.

According to the above configuration, the absorber mounting portion and the side member are directly connected by the absorber reinforcement. Further, at the position where the panel connecting portion is located between the absorber mounting portion and the side member, the absorber reinforcement and the panel connecting portion are overlapped with each other, so that the plate thickness is increased. Therefore, the rigidity between the absorber mounting portion and the side member is increased, and the deformation of the vehicle body due to the load received from the rear shock absorber can be reduced. Further, since the absorber force extends to the side member and is connected to the side member, the load can be distributed to the highly rigid side member. Therefore, deformation due to stress concentration around the absorber force can be prevented.

At the rear end of the front panel and the front end of the rear panel, a first bulging portion that bulges outward from the vehicle in the vertical direction of the vehicle is formed, and the first bulging portion is formed together with the absorber line force. The first closed cross section is formed, and the panel connecting portion is formed with a second bulging portion that bulges outward from the vehicle in the front-rear direction of the vehicle, and the second bulging portion is formed together with the absorber linforce. It is preferable that a closed cross section is formed, and the first closed cross section and the second closed cross section are continuous.

As a result, the first bulging portion is formed in the vehicle vertical direction at the rear end of the front panel, that is, the front side of the absorber mounting portion, and further, the first bulging portion is formed in the vehicle vertical direction at the front end of the rear panel, that is, the rear side of the absorber mounting portion. The protrusion is formed. Further, a second bulging portion is formed in the front-rear direction of the vehicle below the panel connecting portion, that is, the absorber mounting portion. Since the first closed cross section formed by each of the two first bulges and the second closed cross section formed by one second bulge are continuous, the overall shape is H-shaped when viewed from the side. Can form a closed cross-section structure. Therefore, the rigidity between the absorber mounting portion and the side member can be further increased, and the deformation of the absorber mounting portion can be reduced. Further, the closed cross-sectional structure having an H shape is formed by superimposing an absorber force on the rear end of the front panel, the front end of the rear panel, and the panel connecting portion from the inside of the vehicle. Therefore, the rigidity can be increased without adding other reinforcing members, so that the space inside the vehicle interior and the wheel house does not become narrow.

The front panel, the rear panel, and the panel connecting portion may be integrally molded. As a result, the wheel house inner panel including the front panel, the rear panel and the panel connecting portion becomes an integrally molded product. Therefore, when forming the wheel house inner panel, it is not necessary to add or divide each component configuration, and other members such as a bracket for assembling the further divided components are also unnecessary. Therefore, it is possible to suppress an increase in production cost and man-hours and improve productivity.

Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. The dimensions, materials, and other specific numerical values shown in the examples are merely examples for facilitating the understanding of the invention, and do not limit the present invention unless otherwise specified. In the present specification and drawings, elements having substantially the same function and configuration are designated by the same reference numerals to omit duplicate description, and elements not directly related to the present invention are not shown. do.

FIG. 1 is a diagram schematically showing a vehicle 102 to which the vehicle body rear structure 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention is applied. The arrows X and Y shown in the following figures indicate the front side of the vehicle and the outside of the vehicle, respectively. A wheel house 106 for accommodating the rear wheels 104 of the vehicle shown in the region A of FIG. 1 is formed in the vehicle body rear structure 100.

The wheel house 106 shown in FIG. 1 is formed by a wheel house outer panel 108 (see FIG. 3) that covers the rear wheels 104 from the outside of the vehicle and a wheel house inner panel 110 (see FIG. 3) that covers the rear wheels 104 from the inside of the vehicle. ing. Note that the rear wheel 104 is not shown in FIG.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an internal structure of the vehicle body rear structure 100 shown in the region A of FIG. The figure shows the internal structure of the vehicle body rear structure 100 as seen from the outside of the vehicle. The vehicle body rear structure 100 further includes a side member 112 and an absorber force 114. The side member 112 is a highly rigid member located below the wheel house inner panel 110, is arranged along the side end of the rear floor panel 116 shown in FIG. 3 forming the floor surface at the rear of the vehicle body, and extends in the front-rear direction of the vehicle. ing.

As shown in FIG. 2, the absorber reinforcement 114 is a member that is joined to the inside of the wheel house inner panel 110 to reinforce the wheel house inner panel 110. The absorber force 114 extends from above the wheelhouse inner panel 110 toward the side member 112. Here, in FIG. 2, the outlines of the absorber reinforcement 114 before and after the vehicle are schematically shown by dotted lines D and E.

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line BB of the vehicle body rear structure 100 of FIG. The lower portion 118 of the absorber force 114 is joined to the side member 112 as shown in FIG. As a result, the absorber force 114 is indirectly connected to the rear floor panel 116. The upper end 120 of the absorber force 114 is joined to the upper end 122 of the wheel house outer panel 108.

As shown in FIG. 3, a mounting panel 128 on which the absorber mounting portion 126 is formed is arranged on the upper portion 124 of the absorber reinforcement 114. The rear shock absorber 130 shown by the chain line in FIG. 2 is attached to the absorber mounting portion 126. Therefore, the absorber mounting portion 126 receives a load from the rear shock absorber 130 during traveling or the like.

Therefore, in this embodiment, a configuration is adopted in which the rigidity between the absorber mounting portion 126 and the side member 112 is increased to reduce the deformation of the vehicle body due to the load received from the rear cushion absorber 130. As shown in FIG. 3, in the vehicle body rear structure 100, the absorber mounting portion 126 and the side member 112 are directly connected by the absorber reinforcement 114, and the rigidity is further increased by the shape of the wheel house inner panel 110 described later. ..

The wheelhouse inner panel 110 includes an integrally molded front panel 132, rear panel 134 and panel connecting portion 136 as shown in FIG. The front panel 132 and the rear panel 134 are joined to the front and rear of the absorber force 114, respectively.

The panel connecting portion 136 of FIG. 2 connects the front panel 132 and the rear panel 134 between the absorber mounting portion 126 and the side member 112. Therefore, at the position where the panel connecting portion 136 is located between the absorber mounting portion 126 and the side member 112, the absorber reinforcement 114 and the panel connecting portion 136 are overlapped with each other, and the plate thickness is increased.

As shown in FIG. 2, the rear end 138 of the front panel 132 is formed with a first bulging portion 140 that bulges outward from the vehicle in the vertical direction of the vehicle. The front end 142 of the rear panel 134 is formed with a first bulging portion 144 that bulges outward from the vehicle in the vertical direction of the vehicle. The panel connecting portion 136 is formed with a second bulging portion 146 that bulges outward from the vehicle in the front-rear direction of the vehicle. In FIG. 2, the first bulging portion 140, 144 and the second bulging portion 146 are shaded. As described above, in the wheel house inner panel 110, the first bulging portion 140, 144 and the second bulging portion 146 are formed on the front side, the rear side and the lower side of the absorber mounting portion 126, respectively.

FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line CC of the vehicle body rear structure 100 of FIG. As shown in FIG. 4, the first bulging portions 140, 144 and the second bulging portion 146 form the first closed cross section 148, 150 and the second closed cross section 152 together with the absorber line force 114, respectively. Further, as shown in FIG. 4, the first closed cross sections 148 and 150 are located before and after the second closed cross section 152 and are continuous with the second closed cross section 152.

Therefore, as shown in FIG. 2, the wheel house inner panel 110 forms a closed cross-section structure having an H shape as a whole in a side view by the continuous first closed cross sections 148 and 150 and the second closed cross section 152. ..

As shown in FIG. 3, the absorber mounting portion 126 and the side member 112 are directly connected by the absorber reinforcement 114. Further, at the position where the panel connecting portion 136 is located between the absorber mounting portion 126 and the side member 112, as shown in FIG. 4, the absorber reinforcement 114 and the panel connecting portion 136 are overlapped with each other, so that the plate thickness becomes thicker. ing. Therefore, the rigidity between the absorber mounting portion 126 and the side member 112 is increased, and the deformation of the vehicle body due to the load received from the rear shock absorber 130 can be reduced.

Further, as shown in FIG. 3, since the absorber force 114 is connected to the side member 112, the load can be distributed to the side member 112 having high rigidity, which is caused by stress concentration around the absorber force 114. Deformation can be prevented.

Further, as shown in FIG. 4, in the wheel house inner panel 110, the first bulging portion 140, 144 and the second bulging portion 146 are formed on the front side, the rear side and the lower side of the absorber mounting portion 126. Therefore, the rigidity between the absorber mounting portion 126 and the side member 112 can be further increased, and the deformation of the absorber mounting portion 126 can be reduced.

Further, the wheel house inner panel 110 has an absorber having a continuous closed cross-section structure having a first closed cross section 148, 150 and a second closed cross section 152 (FIG. 4), which are H-shaped in the side view of FIG. 2, overlapping from the inside of the vehicle. It is formed together with Reinforce 114. Since the rigidity can be increased without adding other reinforcing members in this way, the space inside the vehicle interior and the wheel house 106 does not have to be narrowed.

The wheel house inner panel 110 shown in FIG. 2 is a molded product in which the front panel 132, the rear panel 134, and the panel connecting portion 136 are integrally molded. Therefore, when forming the wheel house inner panel 110, it is not necessary to add or divide each component configuration, and other members such as a bracket for assembling the further divided components are also unnecessary. Therefore, it is possible to suppress an increase in production cost and man-hours and improve productivity.

Although not shown, the front panel 132, the rear panel 134, and the panel connecting portion 136 may be separately molded and then assembled to form the wheel house inner panel 110. Even in such a case, the absorber mounting portion 126 and the side member 112 are directly connected by the absorber reinforcement 114, and the panel connecting portion 136 is further overlapped to increase the plate thickness, so that the rigidity is increased. Can be enhanced.

Although preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described above with reference to the accompanying drawings, it goes without saying that the present invention is not limited to such examples. It is clear that a person skilled in the art can come up with various modifications or modifications within the scope of the claims, which naturally belong to the technical scope of the present invention. Understood.

The present invention can be used for the rear structure of the vehicle body.

100 ... Rear structure of vehicle body, 102 ... Vehicle, 104 ... Rear wheel, 106 ... Wheel house, 108 ... Wheel house outer panel, 110 ... Wheel house inner panel, 112 ... Side member, 114 ... Absorber reinforcement, 116 ... Rear floor panel, 118 ... lower part of the absorber force, 120 ... upper end of the absorber force, 122 ... upper end of the wheel house outer panel, 124 ... upper part of the absorber force, 126 ... absorber mounting part, 128 ... mounting panel, 130 ... rear shock absorber, 132 ... Front panel, 134 ... Rear panel, 136 ... Panel connecting part, 138 ... Rear end of front panel, 140, 144 ... First bulge, 142 ... Front end of rear panel, 146 ... Second bulge, 148 , 150 ... 1st closed cross section, 152 ... 2nd closed cross section

Claims (6)

A wheel house inner panel that covers the rear wheels of the vehicle from the inside,
An absorber force that extends from above the wheelhouse inner panel and is joined to the inside of the wheelhouse inner panel.
It is a vehicle body rear structure including an absorber mounting portion which is arranged on the upper part of the absorber reinforcement and to which a rear shock absorber is mounted.
The wheel house inner panel
The front and rear panels joined to the front and rear of the absorber force, respectively,
Includes a panel connecting portion that connects the front panel and the rear panel below the absorber mounting portion.
The panel connecting portion has a rear body structure characterized by forming a front-rear closed cross section extending in the front-rear direction of the vehicle together with the absorber reinforcement. The vehicle body rear structure according to claim 1, wherein the rear end of the front panel forms a vertically closed cross section on the front side extending in the vertical direction of the vehicle together with the absorber reinforcement. The vehicle body rear structure according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the front end of the rear panel forms a vertically closed cross section on the rear side extending in the vertical direction of the vehicle together with the absorber reinforcement. The vehicle body rear structure according to claim 2, wherein the front-rear closed cross section and the front-side vertical closed cross section are continuous. The vehicle body rear structure according to claim 3, wherein the front-rear closed cross section and the vertical closed cross section on the rear side are continuous. A wheel house inner panel that covers the rear wheels of the vehicle from the inside,
An absorber force that extends from above the wheelhouse inner panel and is joined to the inside of the wheelhouse inner panel.
It is a vehicle body rear structure including an absorber mounting portion which is arranged on the upper part of the absorber reinforcement and to which a rear shock absorber is mounted.
The wheel house inner panel
The front and rear panels joined to the front and rear of the absorber force, respectively,
Includes a panel connecting portion that connects the front panel and the rear panel below the absorber mounting portion.
The rear end of the front panel and the front end of the rear panel form a vertically closed cross section extending in the vertical direction of the vehicle together with the absorber line force, respectively.
The absorber reinforcement is a vehicle body rear structure characterized in that the lower parts of the vertically closed cross section are joined to the panel connecting portion so as to be connected in the front-rear direction.

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