Patent ID: 8251268
Filing Date: 2012-08-28
Classification: B60R

Abstract:
1. A cargo support carrier provided for a vehicle, said carrier comprising: an outer frame member formed as a frame protruding in a widthwise direction with respect to a body center as viewed from above to surround a periphery; and a reinforcing member provided inside the outer frame member and connected at an end to the outer frame member to constitute a cargo support surface (B); wherein the outer frame member includes left and right side portions disposed in the widthwise direction with respect to the body center and extending in a back-and-forth direction, and front and rear side portions extending in the widthwise direction from front and rear of the side portions toward the body center, one of the front and rear side portions is located on a body central portion side to form a stepped-bottom portion lower than the other of the front and rear side portions, the stepped-bottom portion merges with the left and right side portions via oblique line portions which extend obliquely with respect to the body center, one of the front and rear portions of the left and right side portions obliquely bend toward the body center to form the oblique line portions, and part of the oblique line portions are formed as slant portions bending toward the body center, slanting obliquely downwardly and merging with the stepped-bottom portion, the other of the front and rear portions of the left and right side portions bends toward the body center to form the other of the front and rear side portions, the reinforcing member includes a cross pipe connecting the left and right side portions and back-and-forth members slanting forward or rearward from the cross pipe and widthwise inwardly to form almost-parallel lines whose width is progressively narrowed as the back-and-forth members go forward or rearward and joined to the stepped-bottom portion, the back and forth members are joined to vicinities of the oblique line portions of the stepped-bottom portion, and first stays for attachment of the carrier to a vehicle body are attached to such respective joint portions so as to project downward, the other side of the front and rear side portions extend parallel to the cross pipe from left and right the side portions toward the body center, a widthwise inside portion of the other of the front and rear side portion forms a corner portion, bends forward, extends obliquely downward so as to be parallel to the left and right back-and-forth members, and forms an end side portion joined to a horizontal-directional intermediate portion of the cross pipe, and second stays for attachment of the carrier downward from the corresponding vicinities of the corner portions, a single flat surface, taken as an outer frame flat surface (A), is formed of top portions of portions including the left and right side portions and the other sides of the front and rear side portions among the outer frame member, a single flat surface, taken as the cargo support surface (B), is formed of top portions of portions including the stepped-bottom portion, the back-and-forth member, the cross pipe and the end side portion, and the cargo support surface (B) is inclined with respect to and made lower than the outer frame flat surface (A).