Mazda Motor Corporation

Ayumi Hamamoto

Hideharu Kaeriyama

Chikara Sato

Xiaoguang Liu

Kansei Yamaguchi

Nozomi Tanaka

Shiori Tontani

A vehicle ensures deployment stability of a compact knee airbag while improving design flexibility, by disposing the knee airbag in a lower portion of a storage box. The vehicle includes a knee airbag arranged in front of a passenger seat in a lower portion of a glove box. The glove box has a housing which is fixed to an instrument panel by a plurality of support portions and which demarcates a storage space. An instrument panel member fixed to the vehicle body is disposed above a ceiling wall of the housing. The ceiling wall has a displacement regulation wall portion which bulges upward compared to another portion of the ceiling wall and is spaced apart from the instrument panel member such that the displacement regulation wall portion abuts the instrument panel member when the knee airbag is deployed.

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Hiroshima, Japan

Ayumi Hamamoto