IP Library Granted Patent US 10,442,472
Granted Patent B2
US 10,442,472 · App. 15/762,359 · Granted Oct 15, 2019

Vehicle floor panel

Inventors: Shusuke Sanai (Hamamatsu, JP); Tomomi Ichida (Hamamatsu, JP); Kanji Takaoka (Toyota, JP); Yukitane Kimoto (Nagoya, JP); Tomoya Yabu (Wako, JP); Yoshinori Yamamori (Tokyo, JP); Hideaki Maeda (Sunto-gun, JP); Tsubasa Ono (Tokyo, JP); Hiroshi Yuchi (Maibara, JP); Yasuhiro Kira (Maibara, JP); Kazuaki Amaoka (Nagoya, JP)
Assignees: Suzuki Motor Corporation; Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha; TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.; Honda Motor Co., Ltd.; Mitsubishi Motors Corporation; Subaru Corporation; Dome Co., Ltd.
B62D25/20B62D29/04
View Patent ↗
Loading inventors, assignments & file history…
Monitor This Case
Get email alerts when status or documents change.
Order Certified Copies
Most orders are placed with the USPTO same day — all within 24 business hours.
Order via The Patent Place →
Pre-filled with this patent's details
Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 10,442,472
App. No.
15/762,359
Granted
Oct 15, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

To provide a vehicle floor panel having a certain rigidity and being less prone to deformation during manufacturing and deformation when the vehicle floor panel installed in a vehicle is subjected to loads in various directions from outside the vehicle. A vehicle floor panel includes a floor panel main body made of a fiber-reinforced resin, a plurality of recesses 23 - 1 to 23 - 7 protruding on one of a lower surface 22 and upper surface of the floor panel main body and depressed on the other of the surfaces and arranged by being spaced apart from one another, and ribs 24 - 1 to 24 - 12 connecting two adjacent ones of the recesses on the one of the surfaces of the floor panel main body.

Claims (12)

1. A vehicle floor panel comprising:

a floor panel main body made of a fiber-reinforced resin;

a plurality of recesses protruding on one of a lower surface and an upper surface of the floor panel main body and depressed on the other of the surfaces, and arranged by being spaced away from one another; and

a rib connecting two adjacent ones of the recesses on the one of the surfaces of the floor panel main body.

2. The vehicle floor panel according to claim 1 , wherein the rib is provided in parallel to a straight line linking a center of one of the two adjacent recesses to a center of the other.

3. The vehicle floor panel according to claim 2 , wherein a plurality of the ribs are provided in parallel to the straight line.

4. The vehicle floor panel according to claim 1 , wherein a height of the rib is less than a depth of the recesses.

5. The vehicle floor panel according to claim 1 , wherein the recesses are circular in planar view and arc-shaped in longitudinal section.

6. The vehicle floor panel according to claim 1 , wherein a plurality of unit recess groups are arranged on the floor panel main body along at least one of a vehicle front-rear direction and a vehicle width direction, where each of the unit recess groups is made up of one recess and six recesses provided adjacent to the recess and surrounding the recess.

7. The vehicle floor panel according to claim 6 , wherein the six recesses are arranged at predetermined intervals along a circumferential direction.

8. The vehicle floor panel according to claim 1 , wherein the fiber-reinforced resin is a discontinuous fiber-reinforced resin.

9. The vehicle floor panel according to claim 1 , further comprising a peripheral wall portion erected upward from an outer edge of the vehicle floor panel main body, wherein the recesses are provided by being spaced away from the peripheral wall portion.

Assignments (9)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Mar 1, 2021
From: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
To: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 055472/0944 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 10, 2018
From: MAEDA, HIDEAKI; AMAOKA, KAZUAKI
To: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION; TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA; TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.; HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.; MITSUBISHI MOTORS CORPORATION; SUBARU CORPORATION; DOME CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 045765/0011 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 10, 2018
From: KIMOTO, YUKITANE
To: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
Reel/Frame 045765/0161 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 10, 2018
From: SANAI, SHUSUKE; ICHIDA, TOMOMI
To: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 045765/0326 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 10, 2018
From: YUCHI, HIROSHI; KIRA, YASUHIRO
To: DOME CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 045765/0487 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 10, 2018
From: ONO, TSUBASA
To: SUBARU CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 045765/0612 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 10, 2018
From: YABU, TOMOYA
To: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 045765/0709 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 10, 2018
From: YAMAMORI, YOSHINORI
To: MITSUBISHI MOTORS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 045765/0859 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 10, 2018
From: TAKAOKA, KANJI
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 046113/0725 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2015-188634 · Sep 25, 2015 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20180273114A1 · Sep 27, 2018