Mazda Motor Corporation

Atsushi Nishiyama

Toshiro Kondo

Nobuhiro Komatsu

Masayoshi Sannomiya

Mitsuru Fujinaka

Yoshio Fujii

Kousuke Murakami

Masayuki Takamitsu

Ryuji Matsumura

Kenzo Kihara

A vehicle body structure has a chassis frame to which a pair of side sills are rigidly connected sideways by a plurality of connecting bracket assemblies. One of the connecting bracket assemblies is disposed between a pair of pillars and includes an outer bracket member connected to each side sill and an inner bracket member connected to the chassis frame.

Body structure of an automotive vehicle

A front body structure of an automotive vehicle includes a pair of support members disposed on opposite sides of a section between a front body and a passenger compartment of the automotive vehicle, the support members having high rigidity, and a pair of front side frames disposed in a lengthwise direction of the vehicle. Each of the front side frames includes a front portion, a rear portion connected to one of the support members and an, intensive deformable portion which allows intensive compressive deformation of a portion of the front side frame before the rear portion of the front side frame when the vehicle encounters a head-on collision.

Front body structure of an automotive vehicle

A is a vehicle suspension mounting structure for mounting a suspension device to a vehicle body. At least the upper arm of the suspension device is constituted by two link members disposed to be spaced apart by a predetermined distance in the vertical direction of the vehicle body with respect to a vehicle wheel support member. The suspension mounting structure includes a mounting mechanism for mounting the rear end of the upper link member to a dash panel.

Vehicle suspension mounting structure

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Hiroshima, Japan

Atsushi Nishiyama