Suzuki Motor Corporation

Suzuki Motor Company

Akira Furukawa

Minoru Araki

Hideyuki Genma

A sliding rail structure that allows the back and forth travel of the seat with respect to the vehicle floor surface, wherein the sliding rail comprises a lower rail and an upper rail that is mounted on the seat in advance, and a groove longer than the lower rail is formed in the longitudinal direction of the floor panel constituting the vehicle floor surface. The lower rail and an extension that continues from the lower rail are installed in the groove and the upper rail slides inside the lower rail and extension This structure provides both satisfactory dimensional accuracy for installation of the seat and sliding rail as well as a long traveling distance in the longitudinal direction, facilitates passengers to get on and off the vehicle floor, and improves appearance.

Seat sliding structure

Automobile windows on both sides of the vehicle are curved inwardly and arcuately toward the top of the compartment and are made separate from the doors and slidably abutted at least at the front edges on the support frame for the windshield, at least either of the side windows being made openable by sliding them upwardly. When opened, they are accommodated in recesses formed for that purpose in the roof that covers a middle part of the ceiling space above the car body. Alternatively, the windows extend toward each other until their upper edges overlap along the central longitudinal line of the ceiling space above the car body, the windows being made slidable relative to each other, one over the other in a superposed relation, so that either window, when opened, is partly or fully superposed, as desired, parallelly over or under the other.

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Hamamatsu, Japan

Akira Furukawa