Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Jidoshi Kabushiki Kaisha

Hiroyuki Watanabe

Yasushi Tanaka

Eiichi Hamada

Motomu Hayashi

Kenji Ono

Makoto Hamada

Mikio Ohashi

Ichiro Suzuki

Naoto Kitagawa

Shuji Miura

Kunihiko Masaki

Mitsuo Kawase

Kazuo Kitamura

Nobuo Wakimoto

Ken Miura

Kuniaki Osaka

The present door for a motor vehicle includes a door glass, a door glass piece and a guide groove. The door glass piece has a substantially crank shape and a forward end sliding portion offset into the vehicle and secured to an end portion of the door glass, the sliding portion of the door glass piece being slidably guided by the guide groove on a door frame aligned to enable opening and closing of the door glass, while the outer surfaces of the door glass and the door frame are substantially flush with each other. According to the present invention the sliding portion of the door glass piece and the door glass are formed such that an angle formed by a center line of the sliding portion and the outer surface of the door glass is less than 180.degree., the outer surface of the vehicle being curved and the door glass conforming to the curvature of the outer surface of a vehicle body, which is continuously formed by the outer surfaces of the door glass and the door frame.

Construction of door in motor vehicle

A vehicle roof and door connection having a panel member for covering a portion of the exterior of the vehicle. The panel member includes a roof portion and a side portion. The side portion contains an upper end connected to the roof portion and a lower end. The lower end is spaced from the upper end and includes an engagement member. The panel member also includes a channel recessed along the upper end. A support frame is connected to the panel member along the interior of the vehicle through an attachment member having an upper frame and a lower frame. The upper frame contains a first planar portion adjacent the support frame and the second planar portion adjacent the engagement member. The lower frame includes an inner extension and an outer extension. The inner extension is secured to the upper frame, while the outer extension extends along the exterior of the vehicle proximate the lower end to form a gap between the outer extension and the lower end, which is filled with a sealing resin. A door frame supports a window and engages the lower frame when the door is closed.

Vehicle roof and door connection

A vehicle door comprising a door section having a door panel and a window frame, wherein the door panel includes an inner housing extending between an exterior and an interior of the vehicle. A door glass is slidably mounted between the window frame and the inner housing. The door glass has an arcuate configuration when viewed in cross section in the direction of the length of the vehicle and defines a projected normal arc of curvature corresponding to the arcuate configuration of the door glass when the door glass is in a closed position. The projected normal arc of curvature extends downward from a closed position of the door glass. A guide channel is provided for guiding the door between the closed position and an open position. The guide channel defines an actual arc of curvature when viewed in cross section in the direction of the length of the vehicle, which is displaced radially inwardly from the normal arc of curvature. Therefore, the door glass is slidably positioned to be closer to the interior of the vehicle when slid to an open position along the guide channel than if it were slid along the projected normal arc of curvature.

A vehicle door comprising a door section having a door panel and a window frame, wherein the door panel includes an inner housing extending between an exterior and an interior of the vehicle. Forward and rearward guide channels are secured to the door panel and extend within the inner housing and the window section of the door. Guide members connected to a door glass ride within the forward and rearward channels and include attachment members secured to the door glass for positioning the door glass in response to movement of the guide members within the forward and rearward channels. Forward and rearward brackets are attached to the window frame and include weather seals extending between the bracket and the door glass. A housing supporting a mirror is mounted on the vehicle door and extends along the forward bracket. The housing is mounted so that the forward guide channels are positioned between the forward bracket and the mirror, in order to prevent an obstructed view of the mirror by a vehicle occupant.

A door construction in a motor vehicle, wherein there is provided a door outer panel, which has the upper portion being first inwardly bent in the direction of the door thickness and then upwardly bent in a substantial crank shape, to thereby constitute a ledge portion and an upper end welded flange upwardly extending from the inner end of the ledge portion, the upper end welded flange of the door outer panel is welded to another upper end welded flange of a reinforcing panel, and a belt molding, the width thereof is made smaller at the top portion than at the other portions, covering the outer surface, top end face and inner surface of the welded flanges is solidly secured to the reinforcing panel, the lengths of the upper end welded flanges, which are projected from the ledge portion, of the door outer panel and the reinforcing panel are reduced to the minimum lengths required for welding, and the width in the direction of the door thickness of a belt line portion at the top end of the belt molding is made smaller than a width substantially equal to the weld thickness of the pair of upper end welded flanges.

Door construction in motor vehicle

A vehicle body structure for positioning a gear shift lever upon a central portion of a floor tunnel, underneath which is provided a fuel tank having a complementary shape to that of the fuel tunnel. The displacement of the shift lever is transmitted through a shift linkage to a transmission. The shift linkage extends through a clearance created between a shift lever cover and the floor tunnel and is substantially parallel to the longitudinally extending tunnel.

Vehicle body structure for a longitudinally extending floor tank and a

A vehicle body floor construction of a motor vehicle, wherein a tunnel being upwardly projecting, downwardly opening and disposed in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle is formed at the central portion in the widthwise direction of a floor panel, a fuel tank is disposed in the tunnel and at least one cross member traversing the fuel tank disposed in said tunnel in front, at the back or at the underneath of the fuel tank in a manner to block the tunnel are integrally formed on the floor panel.

Vehicle body floor construction of motor vehicle

A vehicle body floor construction of a motor vehicle, wherein a tunnel upwardly projecting from the surface of a floor panel and disposed in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle is formed at the central portion in the widthwise direction of the floor panel and includes a fuel tank disposed therein, and said tunnel is made to serve as an armrest for an occupant at the upper surface thereof at an inner side of an occupant's seat.

In construction of a door in a motor vehicle, in which a slide piece or pieces secured to end portion of a door glass are slidably coupled into a guide groove of a guide portion of a door frame to thereby guide the door glass in the vertical direction, the outer surface of the door glass and the outer surface of the door frame are substantially flush with each other, and the construction includes a door glass weather strip for sealing between the door glass and the door frame and a door weather strip for sealing between the door and the body when the door is closed, the door glass weather strip is provided closer to the compartment's side than said guide portion, the slide piece is secured to the forward end of a bracket projecting outwardly from an end edge of the door glass substantially in parallel to the glass surface, the guide portion is opened toward the end edge of the door glass to thereby form a guide groove for enclosing said slide piece, the outer wall surface of the guide portion is made substantially flush with the door glass, and the door weather strip is mounted at a position offset closer to a center pillar in the longitudinal direction than an end face of the door glass weather strip, which is farthest from the center pillar in the longitudinal direction and on the compartment's side in the rear of the door glass weather strip.

A fuel tank construction of a motor vehicle, wherein: a tunnel upwardly projecting from the surface of a floor panel, connected at the rear end thereof to a back panel and disposed in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle is formed at the central portion in the widthwise direction of the floor panel and a fuel tank is disposed in the tunnel; and the construction comprises a through-hole formed in the back panel at a position corresponding to an upper portion of an internal of the tunnel, a cross member forming a closed cross-section in the widthwise direction of the vehicle cooperation with the back panel at a position downwardly of the through-hole, an inlet pipe on the tank's side connected to the fuel tank, passing through said through-hole of the back panel and reaching a position upwardly of the cross member, and further, bent outwardly in the widthwise direction of the vehicle along the upper surface of the cross member, and a hose disposed upwardly of the cross member and connecting the inlet pipe on the tank's side to an inlet pipe on the body's side.

Fuel tank construction of motor vehicle

A front seat belt retractor disposing structure which has a floor cross member formed in a hollow inverted U-shaped cross-section in such a manner that the lower opening makes contact with the floor of a vehicle under a rear seat along the transverse direction for containing a front seat belt retractor so that a front seat belt can be drawn externally. Thus, the front seat belt retractor disposing structure can provide sufficient rear seat passengers' accommodation and feet retention spaces by containing the retractor within the floor cross member.

Front seat belt retractor disposing structure

A fuel tank construction of a motor vehicle, wherein a fuel tank disposed in a tunnel projecting upwardly from the surface of a floor panel, opening downwardly, disposed in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle and formed at the central portion in the widthwise direction of the floor panel is of such an arrangement that a pair of upper and lower tanks being of substantially triangular shapes are welded into a substantially square shape in cross section to form the fuel tank and seam portions formed by the welding are located at opposite corner portions and on one of diagonal lines of a space formed by the substantially square shape.

A steering assembly supporting device of a motor vehicle comprising a horizontally extending base portion and a vertically extending leg portion. The base portion extends in parallel to the cowl inner panel at a position which is arranged in the rear of and remote from the cowl inner panel. The outer end of the base portion is fixed onto the cowl side panel and the lower end of the leg portion is fixed onto the floor. The intermediate portion of the base portion is fixed onto the cowl inner panel via a bracket. The steering tube of the steering assembly is supported by the intermediate portion of the base portion.

Steering assembly supporting device of a motor vehicle

A supporting structure for a suspension member on a vehicle includes a front cushion and a rear cushion provided between the suspension member and the body of the vehicle. The front cushion is designed with a small spring rate against a load acting longitudinally on the vehicle and a vertical load on the vehicle. The rear cushion provides a large spring rate against a vertical load on the vehicle.

Supporting structure for a suspension member for a vehicle

A front wheel supporting device for a motor vehicle including a laterally elongated suspension bracket having a cross-section in substantially a U shape and provided on the undersurface of the forward of a motor vehicle body with the opening of the U directed downwardly and a lower arm bracket supports provided adjacent the opposite ends of lower arm brackets for supporting the forward ends of the lower arms extending inwardly of the front wheels which are disposed outwardly of the lower arm brackets. The lower arm brackets each has in the hollow space thereof a steering gear operationally associated with a steering wheel and a steering rod outwardly extending from the steering gear box. The front wheel supporting device is characterized by an engine mount bracket integrally provided on the suspension bracket at the upper and outer surfaces of the suspension bracket and an engine coupled to and supported by the engine mount bracket.

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Toyota, Japan

Hiroyuki Watanabe