Patent ID: 7976098
Filing Date: 2011-07-12
Classification: B62D

Abstract:
1. A side vehicle-body structure of a vehicle, comprising a center pillar which includes a pillar outer panel, a pillar inner panel, and a pillar reinforcement which is provided between the pillar outer panel and the pillar inner panel, wherein said pillar reinforcement comprises an upper part and an lower part, a boundary line of the upper and lower parts of the pillar reinforcement being positioned below a middle level of the pillar reinforcement in a vertical direction of a vehicle body, wherein each of the upper and lower parts of the pillar reinforcement includes a side wall portion which extends along a side face of the vehicle body and a pair of vertical wall portions which extend inwardly in a vehicle width direction from front and rear end portions of the side wall portion, and wherein at least one of the pair of vertical wall portions of said lower part of the pillar reinforcement is slant relative to the vehicle width direction so that the distance between the pair of vertical wall portions becomes wider toward an inward direction in the vehicle width direction, a slant angle of said at least one of the pair of vertical wall portions of the lower part of the pillar reinforcement being greater than that of the vertical portions of the upper part of the pillar reinforcement.