Mazda Motor Corporation

Hiroyuki Matsuda

Minoru Nakamura

Katsunori Monden

Tsuyoshi Yamagiwa

Mitsutoshi Yamanishi

Keishi Nishimura

Hiroshi Nagai

Hiroyuki Kihara

Shiori Matsuda

An impact absorbing member is disposed between a roof panel and a top ceiling disposed below the roof panel. The impact absorbing member includes a base plate portion and a hollow, cone-shaped portion extending upward from the base plate portion. The cone-shaped portion has a fragile portion that facilitates vertical crush and deformation.

Vehicle interior structure

An interior structure of a vehicle comprises a shock absorbing member attached to a vehicle body inside a roof trim above a pillar trim, a curtain airbag device including a curtain airbag stored in a roof trim and an inflator to supply gas to the curtain airbag, wherein the curtain airbag has a bending portion in which a rear end portion of the curtain airbag bends forwardly in a storage state, a gas supply portion of the inflator is provided in front of the bending portion of the curtain airbag, and the shock absorbing member holds the bending portion of the curtain airbag inserted into an inside from a vehicle front side with an opening, a holding clip and a storage portion.

Interior structure of vehicle

An windbreak aero-board apparatus disposed behind a passenger seat of an open-top vehicle for protecting a passenger on the seat from a swirling wind blast is comprised of a lower shield member transversely extending and secured to opposite sides of the vehicle body and an upper shield member transversely extending in the vehicle body which is connected to the lower shield member so as to turn up and down between an upright position in which the upper shield member stands up on top of the lower shield member and a retracted position in which the upper shield member is placed below the top of the lower shield member.

Windbreak aero-board apparatus for open-top vehicle

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Hiroshima, Japan

Hiroyuki Matsuda