Patent ID: 6299239
Filing Date: 2001-10-09
Classification: B60N,B62D

Abstract:
A vehicle body structure, comprising:a center pillar arranged on a lateral side of a passenger's room to extend up and down, the passenger's room being defined by the vehicle body;side panels positioned in front and behind the center pillar, respectively;a floor panel arranged at the bottom of the passenger's room;a floor tunnel formed to project upward at the center of the floor panel of the vehicle's width direction and also extend in the fore-and-aft direction of the vehicle body;a passenger's seat arranged on the floor panel, between the floor tunnel and the side panel;a load-direction converting member has an input part to receive a side impact load and an output part to transmit the side impact load to the floor tunnel, the input part being arranged higher than the output part;the passenger's seat has a seat back and a seat cushion;wherein the load-direction converting member depends at least partially below the seat back.