US 7,552,964 B2
Front windshield support structure of a vehicle
Yoji Saito, Wako (Japan)
Assigned to Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Feb. 27, 2008, as Appl. No. 12/38,281.
Claims priority of application No. 2007-052414 (JP), filed on Mar. 02, 2007.
Prior Publication US 2008/0211255 A1, Sep. 04, 2008
Int. Cl. B62D 25/08 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 296—192  [296/187.04; 296/96.21; 296/201] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
12. A front windshield support structure of a vehicle, comprising:
a dashboard upper part including a reinforcing part, and a windshield support, the reinforcing part being defined to have a box-shaped cross section by a reinforcing beam being connected to the dashboard upper part; and
a lower end of a front windshield being supported on an upper portion of the reinforcing part via the windshield support;
wherein the windshield support includes a front-side member and a rear-side member whose upper portions supporting the front windshield are connected to each other and whose lower portions are directly connected to an upper portion of the reinforcing part; and
wherein the front-side member is bent into a chevron shape in cross section such that a vertically intermediate part thereof projects forward, the rear-side member is bent into a chevron shape in cross section such that a vertically intermediate part thereof projects rearward, and the front-side member and the rear-side member form a box-shaped cross section.