Mazda Motor Corporation

Eiichi Mizuno

Noritaka Sakiyama

Kenji Matsumoto

Kiyoshige Yamada

Koji Kishino

Toshio Hasuike

Yoshikazu Kono

Yukito Matsui

A skylight window formed in a top roof of an automotive car body is either fully or partly opened and closed by front and rear sliding roof portions. The front and rear sliding roof portions, or roofs, each independently moves between closed and open positions. The front sliding roof is guided to its open position by front roof guide mechanisms disposed on opposite sides of the skylight window so as to locate the front sliding roof over a rear stationary roof in the open position. The rear sliding roof is guided to its open position by rear guide mechanisms disposed on opposite sides of the skylight window so as to locate the rear sliding roof under the rear stationary roof in the open position. These front and rear sliding roofs, when closed, are even with a plane including the top roof of the card body.

Power sliding sunroof

An automobile rear body structure includes a roof panel, for forming an upper surface of a roof portion of a vehicle body, which is provided with an integrally formed downwardly extending portion to form an outer surface of a rear pillar at a rear side portion thereof. The rear body structure also includes a rear fender panel joined to a lower end of the downwardly extending portion for forming an outer surface of a rear side wall, a quarter panel located inside the rear fender panel, and a reinforcement member for connecting the rear fender panel and the quarter panel at a location near a lower end of the rear pillar. The reinforcement member may be formed by bending the rear fender panel inwardly from a joint between the rear fender panel and the downwardly extending portion of the roof panel. Alternatively, the reinforcement member may be formed of a separate reinforcement element.

Structure of an automobile body in the vicinity of a roof panel, a rear

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Hiroshima, Japan

Eiichi Mizuno