Patent ID: 7641246

Claim:
A bumper beam structure for a vehicle, comprising: a beam body designed to be fixedly supported on left and right frames of a vehicle body; and a height-raising wall provided on an upper portion of the beam body, the height-raising wall including: a bottom wall portion fixed to the upper portion of the beam body; a running-up preventing wall portion integral with and extending upwardly from a side edge of the bottom wall portion so as to prevent a vehicle of a higher height from running up onto the vehicle provided with the bumper beam structure; a first reinforcing wall portion connecting to respective first end edges of the running-up preventing wall portion and the bottom wall portion; and a second reinforcing wall portion connecting to respective second end edges of the running-up preventing wall portion and the bottom wall portion, which are opposite to the respective first end edges of the running-up preventing wall portion and the bottom wall portion, wherein the first reinforcing wall portion is integral with the bottom wall portion and extends contiguously from the first end edge of the bottom wall portion, the first reinforcing wall portion having a first support portion formed integrally therewith and overlapping the first end edge portion of the running-up preventing wall portion, and wherein the second reinforcing wall portion is integral with the bottom wall portion and extends contiguously from the second end edge of the bottom wall portion, the second reinforcing wall portion having a second support portion formed integrally therewith and overlapping the second end edge portion of the running-up preventing wall portion.