Patent ID: 6446562
Filing Date: 2002-09-10
Classification: B61D,B62D

Abstract:
A car body comprising two side structures, a roof structure and an underframe, wherein:a lower end portion of a first hollow-shaped material constituting a lower end portion of said side structure is formed so that a face plate at the external side of said car has a lower end portion which projects further downward than a lower end portion of a face plate at the internal side of said car; said lower end portions of said two face plates are connected with an inclined first rib; said lower end portion of said face plate at the internal side of said car is connected to said face plate at the external side of said car with a substantially horizontal second rib; members of said first hollow-shaped material positioned above said second rib are removed therefrom at one or more doorways; said car body includes a fourth rib projecting toward the internal side of said car at the vicinity of an upper end of said first rib; said fourth rib is bonded to a leading end of a second hollow-shaped material constituting the underframe; said lower end portions of the two face plates of said first hollow-shaped material are respectively bonded to the second hollow-shaped material; and said second hollow-shaped material includes a third rib substantially parallel to the inclined first rib.