Patent ID: 11970212
Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
Field: Machine tools (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. An automotive-structural-part joint structure formed by bending one metal sheet, the automotive-structural-part joint structure including a groove portion including a top portion and a pair of side wall portions, and the automotive-structural-part joint structure being provided at an end part of one automotive structural part in a longitudinal direction, and configured to join the one automotive structural part to another automotive structural part in an intersecting direction, the automotive-structural-part joint structure comprising:
a pair of vertical rib portions configured to stand upward from both side ends of the top portion; and
an outward-directed flange portion configured to extend outward from three side edges of the groove portion on an end part side where the other automotive structural part is joined, the flange portion being continuously formed along the three side edges, wherein
each of the vertical rib portions is formed by overlapping parts of the metal sheet, one of the parts being bent upward and extending from a side end of the top portion, another part extending upward from an upper end of corresponding one of the side wall portions, and
the flange portion includes parts of the metal sheet bent outward and extending from the respective side wall portions, a part of the metal sheet bent upward and extending from the top portion, and parts of the metal sheet bent outward and extending from the respective vertical rib portions.