To effectively prevent the occurrence of breakage of a vehicle body side member due to abutting of a towing hook installing portion on the vehicle body side member at the time of vehicular collision.
The towing hook installation structure for an automobile is provided with a body frame made from a pair of right and left rear side frames 1, and a bumper reinforcement 4. A towing hook for the automobile is installed to a towing hook installing portion 7 supported by the bumper reinforcement 4. In that case, a vertical center 4B of the bumper reinforcement 4 and a vertical center 1A of the body frame are offset in a vertical direction of a vehicle body. A supporting position 7A of the towing hook installing portion 7 to the vertical center 4B of the bumper reinforcement 4 is offset in the opposite direction to the offset direction of the bumper reinforcement 4 to the body frame.
NAKAYAMA NOBUYUKI
JP2002068015A | 2002-03-08 | |||
JP2000296742A | 2000-10-24 |
Takao Ito
Jiro Higuchi
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