Patent ID: 9598112
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: B60Y,B62D

Claim:
1. A vehicle frame structure comprising: a front pillar having an internal space defined by a forward wall, a rear wall, an outer lateral side wall, and an inner lateral side wall, the internal space partitioned by longitudinally extending first and second ribs connecting inside faces of the forward and rear walls and a laterally extending third rib connecting an inside face of the inner side wall and the first rib, the first, second and third ribs separating the front pillar into a plurality of interior hollow portions, one of the hollow portions solely defining an outer lateral portion of the front pillar and the remaining hollow portions defining an inner lateral portion of the front pillar, two of the remaining hollow portions at least partially defined by the forward wall being dimensioned smaller than two of the remaining hollow portions at least partially defined by the rear wall, the two smaller dimensioned hollow portions configured as energy absorbing lobes of the inner lateral portion.