Vehicle fender panel mounting structure
A vehicle fender panel mounting structure is provided in which good protection capability may be obtained for pedestrians, even when the break line portion between the hood and the fender panel is disposed offset in the vehicle width direction further inside than the vehicle body side structural member that is the corresponding mount for the fender panel. In a body in which a break line portion, of the front fender panel and a hood, is disposed offset further to the inside in the vehicle width direction than an apron upper member, an impact absorption bracket, made up from an upper bracket and a lower bracket, is disposed in a cantilever supported state, and by rotational deformation in a direction, an outside second angled portion contacts an upright wall portion, and after that time, bending deformation occurs in a successive manner, originating at a bent portion, from an inside second angled portion toward an outside second angled portion. A reaction force in the latter half of F-S characteristics may thereby be obtained.
1. A vehicle fender panel mounting structure comprising:
a fender panel top end side mounting portion, disposed at a vehicle body front portion side face;
a vehicle body side structural member, disposed further to the outside in the vehicle width direction, and further to the vehicle bottom direction side, than the fender panel top end side mounting portion, the vehicle body side structural member being the corresponding mount of the fender panel top end side mounting portion; and
an impact absorption bracket joining the fender panel top end side mounting portion and the vehicle body side structural member, the impact absorption bracket comprising:
a first angled portion, connecting the fender panel top end side mounting portion and the vehicle body side structural member in a substantially straight line;
a second angled portion, extending from a position at the top end of the first angled portion to a position that opposes in the vehicle width direction, or is able to oppose, an upright wall portion provided to the vehicle body side structural member; and
a connecting portion that connects the bottom end portion of the second angled portion to the bottom end portion of the first angled portion.
2. The vehicle fender panel mounting structure according to claim 1 , wherein the impact absorption bracket deforms due to an impact object impacting from a hood top side in the vicinity of a break line portion, the break line portion being located between an edge portion at the outside in the vehicle width direction of the hood that is disposed at the vehicle body front portion top face and a top end portion of the fender panel, and absorbs energy from the time of impact.
3. The vehicle fender panel mounting structure according to claim 1 , wherein the impact absorption bracket:
at a time of impact by an impact object, tilts in toward the inside in the vehicle width direction by rotation, with the bottom end portion of the first angled portion as the center of rotation and the side length of the first angled portion as the rotational radius; and
after the connection location of the second angled portion with the connection portion has contacted the upright wall portion of the vehicle body side structural member, bending deformation is generated in which, while the side length of the second angled portion is being reduced, the side length of the connection portion is increased by a corresponding amount along the upright wall portion.
4. The vehicle fender panel mounting structure according to claim 1 , wherein the connection location of the second angled portion with the connection portion is disposed further to the vehicle bottom direction side than a transverse wall portion provided at a position at the top end of the upright wall portion of the vehicle body side structural member, and disposed adjacent to, or in the vicinity of, the upright wall portion.
5. The vehicle fender panel mounting structure according to claim 1 , wherein a deformation load adjustment mechanism is provided to at least one of the second angled portion or the connection portion, the deformation load adjustment mechanism being for adjusting the deformation load from a time of impact by an impact object.
6. The vehicle fender panel mounting structure according to claim 1 , wherein the impact absorption bracket is divided into a top side bracket configuring a first angled portion side thereof, and a bottom side bracket that is disposed at the bottom face side of the top side bracket and configures a second angled portion and connection portion side thereof.
7. The vehicle fender panel mounting structure according to claim 1 , wherein the impact absorption bracket is configured with a press-formed component that is provided with the first angled portion, the second angled portion and the connection portion, all integrated together as one.