Patent ID: 6991282

Claim:
An apparatus for controlling rigidity of a vehicle body, comprising: a plate member disposed parallel with a direction of a collision load, the plate member having a first end facing toward the direction of the collision load from which the collision load is applied to the vehicle body, a second end opposite to the first end, and top and bottom ends; a base member disposed at the second end of the plate member; a slide member having opposite top and bottom plates and one vertical plate contiguously extending between edges of the top and bottom plates, with the top plate disposed over the top end of the plate member, the bottom plate disposed underneath the bottom end of the plate member, and the vertical plate disposed at the first end of the plate member, wherein the slide member is slidable with respect to the base member in a collision; and an attachment for establishing and releasing connection between the top end of the plate member and the top plate of the slide member and between the bottom end of the plate member and the bottom plate of the slide member.