Patent ID: 9555836
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: B62D

Claim:
1. A vehicle side structure comprising: a rocker that extends in a vehicle front-rear direction on each of both sides of a vehicle lower portion in a vehicle width direction, the rocker including a closed cross-section that is constituted by a rocker outer reinforcement and a rocker inner panel, the rocker outer reinforcement including a side wall portion, an upper wall portion and a lower wall portion; a front pillar that extends upward in a vertical direction of a vehicle from a front end portion of the rocket; and a gusset that is provided at a lower end portion of the front pillar, the gusset including a body wall portion, the vehicle width direction being coincident with a thickness direction of the body wall portion, the body wall portion being joined to the front pillar, the gusset including a bottom wall portion that is bent inward in the vehicle width direction at a lower end portion of the body wall portion, the bottom portion being joined to an upper face of the upper wall portion of the rocker reinforcement.