Nissan Motor Company Limited

Hideo Aizawa

Makoto Moriya

Hideo Ikeda

Hiroyasu Kan

Susumu Amagai

Shizuya Kawai

A lateral drag link type steering linkage for an automotive vehicle equipped with a vehicle frame and a pair of front wheels and a pair of rear wheels attached thereto. The linkage includes a relay lever pivotally mounted at one end thereof to the vehicle frame, the relay lever having a connecting portion, a drag link ball joint through which the connecting portion of the relay lever is movably joined to one end of a drag link, and a relay rod one end of which is movably connected to one end of a pitman arm for a steering gear and the other end of which is movably connected to the connecting portion of the relay lever. The drag link ball joint is positioned near the imaginary line between a pair of knuckle ball joints for a pair of knuckle arms.

Lateral drag link type steering linkage for a vehicle

A heat shield surrounds an exhaust tail pipe of an internal combustion engine so as to define a certain thickness of an insulating layer of air between the shield and the tail pipe.

Heat shield for an exhaust tail pipe

A shield member has a channel which receives therein an exhaust purifier and is formed with at least one hole in that region on the bottom wall of the channel which is not disposed under the exhaust purifier.

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Yokosuka, Japan

Hideo Aizawa