Patent ID: 7984943

Claim:
A vehicular hood structure comprising: a hood outer panel that structures an outer plate of a hood that openably covers an engine compartment; a hood inner panel that is disposed at a hood lower side relative to the hood outer panel and structures an inner plate of the hood, and that is provided with a skeleton portion at which a plurality of reinforcement beads are formed in a central region excluding outer peripheral end portions, and a flat portion extending in a hood width direction adjacent to a hood front side of the skeleton portion; and a hood lock reinforce that is disposed between the hood outer panel and the hood inner panel to serve for reinforcement at a hood front end portion and extends in the hood width direction, and that is provided with a lower wall portion that includes a portion at which a striker is fixed and that is disposed at the hood inner panel side, a standing wall portion that rises diagonally upward toward the hood back from a rear end in a hood length direction of the lower wall portion and at which a weakened portion is provided, the weakened portion deforming at a time of input of a load of a predetermined value or greater from a hood upper side, a rear end portion that is provided continuously with the hood back side of the standing wall portion and that is joined to the hood outer panel, and legs that extend to the hood back side at portions of the rear end portion spaced at a predetermined distance in the hood width direction and that are joined to the flat portion.