Patent ID: 9409605
Filing Date: 2016-08-09
CPC Classification: B62D

Claim Text:
1. A side structure of a vehicle body, the side structure comprising: a center pillar extending in a vehicle vertical direction and separating, in a vehicle longitudinal direction, an entrance opening that is covered and uncovered with a front door from an entrance opening that is covered and uncovered with a rear door, wherein door body upper edge lines of the front door and the rear door linearly extend in the vehicle longitudinal direction, an outer panel of each of the front door and the rear door is either coated with a paint at least one of whose chroma, lightness, or hue differs from those of a paint used for coating of a pillar outer panel of the center pillar, or coated with a paint containing a flake-shaped brilliant material, a panel surface of the pillar outer panel has a protrusion in a middle in the vehicle vertical direction such that at least part of a lower portion of the panel surface projects toward an outside of the vehicle body relative to an upper portion of the panel surface, and a start end of the protrusion is located within a range of 15 mm below a door body upper edge line in at least a center portion in a pillar width of the pillar outer panel.