Patent ID: 8720984

Claim:
A vehicle-body structure of a vehicle, comprising: at least one vehicle-body forming member forming a closed-section portion continuously in a specified direction; a partition member extending in the specified direction and partitioning an inside of the closed-section portion of said vehicle-body forming member; and a bulkhead provided in the closed-section portion of said vehicle-body forming member and joined to the vehicle-body forming member, wherein said bulkhead is joined to an inner face of the vehicle-body forming member at specified positions which are located on both sides of said partition member, the bulkhead is joined to the partition member, and a joint portion of said vehicle-body forming member and said bulkhead includes a rigid joint portion where the vehicle-body forming member and the bulkhead are joined with a direct contact thereof and a flexible joint portion where the vehicle-body forming member and the bulkhead are joined via a damping member provided therebetween.