VEHICLE BODY STRUCTURE

摘要

An automobile body structure that, when an automobile door receives a side collision load, restricts the entry of the door into the automobile interior and that can have such a function at low cost. In the automobile body structure, a side collision load (F) to an automobile door is transmitted to a load receiving member (20) of an automobile body via an impact beam (2) and a door box (4) of that door and is then transmitted from the load receiving member (20) to a cross-member (10). The load receiving member (20) is a straight linear tube body placed between left and right doors so as to extend in the lateral direction of the automobile. The load receiving member (20) is constructed from a load receiving tube (30) adapted so that it can transmit the collision load from the door box (4) of either of the doors to the door box of the other door, and also has connection sections (40) for supporting, near the left and right doors, the load receiving tube (30) and connecting the tube (30) to the cross-member.