Patent ID: 6631942
Filing Date: 2003-10-14
Classification: B62D

Abstract:
A front body structure for a vehicle, comprising:an engine room arranged in front of a vehicle cabin, for accommodating a power unit for the vehicle; a dash panel disposed between the engine room and the vehicle cabin; a side member arranged in each lateral side of the vehicle to extend from the engine room to the underside of a cabin floor defining the vehicle cabin, in a fore-and-aft direction of vehicle continuously; a body side frame having a side-frame inner panel arranged inside the vehicle cabin and a side-frame outer panel arranged outside the vehicle cabin; and a torque box formed to extend from the vicinity of a joint between the side member and the dash panel to the body side frame, in the form of a box having a torquebox inner panel inside the vehicle cabin and a torque-box outer panel outside the vehicle cabin, wherein a front tire and a wheel are arranged on the side of the torque-box outer panel of the torque box, and the body side frame is connected with the torque box so that an outside surface of the side-frame outer panel is substantially connected an outside surface of the torque-box outer panel.