IP Library Granted Patent US 10,144,457
Granted Patent B2
US 10,144,457 · App. 15/450,768 · Granted Dec 4, 2018

Vehicle hood

Inventors: Masatoshi Yoshida (Kobe, JP); Hiroko Kashima (Kobe, JP); Hideki Ishitobi (Nagoya, JP)
Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
B62D25/105B62D27/026
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Patent No.
US 10,144,457
App. No.
15/450,768
Granted
Dec 4, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is a vehicle hood that allows a reduction in thickness of an outer panel while providing stiffness of the outer panel. A vehicle hood includes an outer panel, an inner panel, and a plurality of adhesive components. The inner panel has a plurality of beads. Each bead has a support part that supports each adhesive component. The adhesive components are provided on the support parts so as to be intermittently aligned along a specific direction. A support-part interval between the support parts adjacent to each other in an intersecting direction is smaller than an adhesive-component interval between the adhesive components adjacent to each other on the support parts.

Claims (27)

1. A vehicle hood comprising:

an outer panel;

an inner panel disposed below the outer panel; and

a plurality of adhesive components connecting the outer panel to the inner panel,

wherein:

the inner panel has a plurality of beads, the beads each having a shape extending along a specific direction and being disposed so as to be intermittently aligned along an intersecting direction intersecting with the specific direction;

each of the beads has a support part that has a shape extending along the specific direction and supports each of the adhesive components at a position opposed to the outer panel;

the adhesive components are provided on the support parts so as to be intermittently aligned along the specific direction; and

a support-part interval between the support parts adjacent to each other in the intersecting direction is smaller than an adhesive-component interval between the adhesive components adjacent to each other on each of the support parts.

2. The vehicle hood according to claim 1 ,

wherein adhesive components disposed on a specific support part among the support parts and adhesive components disposed on a support part adjacent to the specific support part in the intersecting direction are disposed in a zigzag pattern.

3. The vehicle hood according to claim 1 ,

wherein:

the outer panel is made of aluminum or aluminum alloy;

the outer panel has a middle adhesive region between a portion located on a foremost bead located in a forefront among the beads and a portion located on a rearmost bead located most rearward among the beads in a vehicle front-hack direction; and

an index value 175 to 235, the index value being represented by a ratio of the adhesive-component interval to a thickness of the outer panel in the middle adhesive region.

4. The vehicle hood according to claim 3 ,

wherein:

the inner panel further has a front support part that supports an adhesive component at a position opposed to the outer panel between the foremost bead and a front end of the inner panel;

the outer panel has a front adhesive region between the portion located on the foremost bead and a front end of the outer panel in the vehicle front-back direction; and

an index value is 80 to 100, the index value being represented by a ratio of a front adhesive-component interval between the adhesive components in a vehicle width direction in the front adhesive region to the thickness of the outer panel.

5. The vehicle hood according to claim 1 ,

wherein:

an edge of the outer panel configures a folded grip part that grips an edge of the inner panel from two sides in a thickness direction of the inner panel while being folded inward; and

a thickness of the inner panel is at least 0.8 times a thickness of the outer panel.

6. The vehicle hood according to claim 5 ,

wherein the thickness of the inner panel is not more than 1.1 times the thickness of the outer panel.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 6, 2017
From: YOSHIDA, MASATOSHI; KASHIMA, HIROKO; ISHITOBI, HIDEKI
To: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
Reel/Frame 041476/0805 →
Priority Claims (2)
JP 2016-070579 · Mar 31, 2016 · national
JP 2016-163477 · Aug 24, 2016 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20170282978A1 · Oct 5, 2017