Mazda Motor Corporation

Fumie Kitakaze

Kenji Kashiyama

Tomohiro Koguchi

Masaaki Sato

Akinobu Aoki

Noriyoshi Okii

Nobuhiro Fujii

Atsushi Hisano

Disclosed is an arrangement structure for a sensor to be mounted to an engine of a vehicle, wherein the engine is arranged in an engine compartmentof the vehicle in a posture allowing a crankshaftof the engine to be oriented in a widthwise direction of the vehicle. The arrangement structure comprises a driveshaftarranged along a vehicle-rearward lateral surface of the enginefacing in a rearward direction of the vehicle, to rotatably drive a front wheel, and a flange sectionprovided as a joining section between two members () constituting the engine, to protrude in the rearward direction of the vehicle and at a height position below that of the driveshaft, wherein the sensoris mounted to the vehicle-rearward lateral surface of the engineat a height position located above the flange sectionand in overlapping relation with the driveshaftwhen viewed from a rear side of the vehicle. The arrangement structure of the present invention is capable of more reliably protecting the sensor mounted to the engine against foreign objects, such as water and a pebble, to adequately maintain performance of the sensor on a long-term basis.

Arrangement structure for sensor to be mounted to engine of vehicle

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Hiroshima, Japan

Fumie Kitakaze