Mazda Motor Corporation

Asami Iwamoto

Daisuke Umetsu

Tomonori Ohtsubo

Shingo Kunihiro

Hiroki Uemura

Isao Hirashima

Kazuhiro Tanaka

Yusaku Takeda

Toshihiko Tomita

Katsumi Sakane

Yasunari Hirotani

Masaki Nakaura

Hirotake Matsuki

A driving position adjusting apparatus for a vehicle comprises a driver's seat provided on a floor panel of a vehicle compartment, an operational pedal, such as an accelerator pedal, which is operated by a driver seated in the driver's seat, an incline-face portion which is provided on the floor panel, on which a heel of the driver operating the operational pedal is placed, the incline-face portion having an upper face which is inclined so that a front portion thereof is located at a higher position than a rear portion thereof, and a heel-placement height adjusting device which adjusts a height position of the driver's heel placed on the incline-face portion at least by moving up or down the incline-face portion.

Driving position adjusting apparatus for vehicle

A floor structure on a driver side of a vehicle where a control pedal, such as a brake pedal, adapted to be depressedly operated by a driver seated in a driver seat arranged at a front of a passenger compartment. The floor structure has a heel-placement zone which is provided on an approximately horizontal floor portion located rearward of a depressing point of the control pedal, and formed to have a frontward region adapted to allow a short person seated in the driver seat place his/her heel thereon and a rearward region adapted to allow a tall person seated in the driver seat place his/her heel thereon. The heel-placement zone includes an inclined surface portion formed in at least part thereof in such a manner as to rise relative to a surrounding area of the floor portion and has an upper surface extending obliquely upwardly and frontwardly. The floor structure can adjust a driving posture easily and adequately with a simple structure to allow a driver seated in the driver seat to adequately operate the control pedal.

Driver-side floor structure of vehicle

Disclosed is an automobile roof structure, which comprises a pair of right and left roof side rails, a transparent roof panelattached to cover a space between the roof side rails, a sun shadedisposed slidably along a bottom surface of the transparent roof panel, and a shade support memberfor supporting the sun shadein a slidingly movable manner. Each of the roof side railsincludes a rail outer paneland a rail inner panelformed, respectively, with roof flangeswhich are oriented to protrude in a laterally inward direction of an automobile body and joined together. The roof flanges, a lateral peripheral portion of the transparent roof panel, and the shade support member, are disposed within a given positioning zone where they overlap each other in top plan view. The opposite lateral peripheral portion of the transparent roof panelis fixed onto an upper surface of the roof flangeof the rail outer panel, and the shade support memberis fixed to a wall of the rail inner panelat a position outward of the automobile body relative to the roof flangeof the rail outer panel

Automobile roof structure

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Hiroshima, Japan

Asami Iwamoto