Patent ID: 7472942
Filing Date: 2009-01-06
Classification: B60J,B62D

Abstract:
1. A vehicle side portion structure, which is applied to a vehicle body, comprising: a side door turnably supported around a door hinge attached to a pillar that is arranged at the side of a vehicle body and extends in the substantially up and down directions of the vehicle, said pillar having a rear flange; a preset gap between the surfaces of the pillar and the side door that face each other, and in which a centroid position of the cross-sectional surface of the side door is arranged so as to be offset towards the exterior side in the vehicle widthwise direction relative to a centroid position of the cross-sectional surface of the pillar; and a load-conveying component provided at the gap or in the vicinity thereof having an end surface facing the rear flange of the pillar that suppresses the rotational displacement of the pillar around the door hinge when a frontal collision load is input, said frontal collision load moving the end surface of the load-conveying component in a first direction into contact with the rear flange of the pillar, said contact preventing the load-conveying component from further movement in the first direction, thereafter forcing the frontal collision load to act upon the side door as an axial force towards the rear side of the vehicle.