Patent ID: 9469348
Filing Date: 2016-10-18
CPC Classification: B60N,B62D,Y10T

Claim Text:
1. A product comprising: a vehicle rocker having a first wall, and a rocker side reinforcement attached to the first wall, a seat support defining at least one recess attached to the rocker side reinforcement, a first lateral beam attached and received by the at least one recess and a second lateral beam attached to and received by the at least one recess and wherein the seat support includes a flange, and wherein the rocker side reinforcement includes a first planar wall and a second planar wall, the first planar wall and second planar wall forming an obtuse angle, the flange attached to the second planar wall of the rocker side reinforcement and a plurality of flow drill screws extending through the flange and the second planar wall of the rocker side reinforcement, wherein the first planar wall, the second planar wall and the obtuse angle, and the flange are constructed and arranged to prevent the flow drill gun from engaging the first planar wall of the rocker side reinforcement or the first planar wall of the rocker during driving a flow drive screw.