Patent ID: 7828330

Claim:
A vehicle front body structure comprising: left and right damper housings having mounted thereto respective upper portions of left and right front suspension dampers; left and right front side frames having respective ones of the left and right damper housings attached thereto, each of the left and right front side frames having a side frame body of a substantially U sectional shape with an upwardly oriented opening; left and right damper housing connection brackets each inserted in the opening of the side frame body of a corresponding one of the left and right front side frames and thereby fixed to the side frame body of the corresponding left or right front side frame; left and right welding connection sections each formed on the corresponding left or right damper housing in such a shape as to be fixed to a corresponding one of the damper housing connection brackets; left and right lid members each fitted in the opening of the side frame body of the corresponding left or right front side frame to thereby form the front side frame as a structure of a closed sectional shape; and wherein each of the damper housing connection brackets comprises a corner member formed by bending a steel plate and having a rib section partitioning an inside space of the corresponding left or right front side frame, and corner portions of the left and right damper housings are lapped over the corner members of respective ones of the left and right damper housing connection brackets.