Mazda Motor Corporation

Hisashi Kajikawa

Masaki Fukuma

Satoshi Imamura

Mitsuo Iwano

Eiichi Tanaka

Junki Kitano

Yasuyuki Imano

Toshinobu Yoneya

Ryoko Motohiro

Yuichi Someno

Takahiro Iwai

Provided is a method for manufacturing a knuckle that includes a bearing mounting portion on which a hub bearing is mounted, a damper holding portion which holds a damper, and a damper mounting arm portion which couples the bearing mounting portion and the damper holding portion, the method being such that by using one core, the knuckle is integrally casted so as to formed therein a cylindrical opening which is the inner space of the damper holding portion, a hollow opening in which the inner space in a hollow portion of the damper mounting arm portion, the hollow portion extending in a closed cross section from the damper holding portion, is continuous with an opening formed in the damper holding portion, and an arm-portion opening which is surrounded by a front arm portion and a rear arm portion of the damper mounting arm portion, extending from the hollow portion.

Method for manufacturing automobile knuckle and automobile knuckle

A counterweight forms a crankshaft of an engine, and includes: an arm connecting a crank journal and crank pin of the crankshaft; a neck extending from a first connection face of the arm in a direction opposite to the crank pin; and a substantially fan-shaped weight continuous with a portion of the neck opposite to the crank journal. The weight has left and right shoulders continuous with the neck, and each of the shoulders is tilted to be away from the neck at an angle with respect to a horizontal line orthogonal to a crankshaft center when viewed along the crankshaft center, the angle being 15&#xb0; or more and 22.5&#xb0; or less.

Counterweight, and crankshaft with the counterweight

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Hiroshima, Japan

Hisashi Kajikawa