Patent ID: 6102466
Filing Date: 2000-08-15
Classification: B60N,B60R,B62D

Abstract:
A foot-rest support plate used in a vehicle body of a vehicle having a dashboard provided with a rear surface, a vertical portion, and an inclined lower end portion, side-frames in front of a vehicle compartment, the side-frames coupled at rear ends thereof to a front surface of said dashboard, and a floor panel, the foot-rest support plate being an included component of the vehicle with said dashboard and said floor panel, said foot-rest support plate having a non-deformed state and a deformed state, wherein said foot-rest support plate changes from the non-deformed state to the deformed state due to a collision of the vehicle, said foot-rest support plate comprising:a vertical plate portion that contacts the rear surface of said dashboard;a rearward-declining plate portion connected to a lower end of said vertical plate portion, and adapted to face a bottom of a foot of an occupant of the vehicle which forms a foot-ankle joint angle; anda horizontal plate portion connected to a lower end of said rearward-declining plate portion and contacts an upper surface of said floor panel, said vertical plate portion being coupled to the vertical portion of said dashboard, said horizontal plate portion being coupled to said floor panel, and said rearward-declining plate portion contacts the inclined lower end portion of the dashboard when in said non-deformed state, wherein a portion of at least one of the vertical plate, the rearward-declining plate and horizontal plate portions is not in contact with the rear surface of the dashboard, the lower end of the vertical plate portion, and the upper surface of the floor panel, respectively, when the footrest support plate is in the deformed state.