Mazda Motor Corporation

Hidemitsu Shinhara

Akiyoshi Masuda

Ken Yamada

Tomohiro Komaji

Shunsuke Hirai

Yasuhiko Nishida

Hidekazu Shiraishi

Hiroaki Ishizu

Daisuke Nakayama

Takumi Fukuda

Masashi Notomi

Eiji Oro

Masaki Mouri

Masayoshi Sannabe

Takanori Yoshida

Masahiro Awane

Yuuki Sano

Hajime Ito

A vehicle door is provided having an outer panel reinforced by a panel reinforcement and which is configured to generate low-frequency sound dominantly at the time of closing the door. The door has an outer panel openably/closably attached to a vehicle body by a front hinge; and a panel reinforcement extending in a vehicle front-rear direction on an inner side of the outer panel. The outer panel and the panel reinforcement are fixed by plural adhesion sections. The number of the adhesion sections in an upper area of the outer panel is larger than the number of the adhesion sections in a lower area of the outer panel. The number of the adhesion sections provided in a front lower area near the front hinge in the lower area is larger than the number of adhesion sections in a rear lower area away from the front hinge in the lower area.

Vehicle door

Provided is a rear vehicle-body structure of a vehicle, capable of reducing vibrations transmitted from a rear wheel to a floor panel, while ensuring required performance for rear side frames and a cross member. The rear vehicle-body structure comprises a symmetric pair of frame members extending in a vehicle longitudinal direction along respective lateral sides of a rear of a vehicle body of the vehicle, and a rear-side rear cross member bridging the symmetric pair of frame members in a vehicle width direction, wherein an attachment portion between each of the frame members and the rear-side rear cross member provided with rigidity difference generation part to generate a rigidity difference between the frame member and the rear-side rear cross member.

Rear vehicle-body structure of vehicle

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Hiroshima, Japan

Hidemitsu Shinhara