Mazda Motor Corporation

Daikyonishikawa Corporation

Hitoshi Ochimizu

Takahiro Hirano

Masaya Hiramatsu

Kazuhiro Tanaka

Toshiteru Yoshimura

Yasuhiro Morita

Hideki Hayashi

Shohei Kuroda

Ryo Oyama

Hiroshi Kushida

Shunsuke Nobuoka

Noriaki Igaki

Chikara Sato

Ryosuke Matsuo

Go Aoyama

Yasuaki Okazaki

A vehicle interior structure includes a pedal-backward-preventive bracket against which a supporting portion of a control panel abuts when the control pedal controlled by a foot of a driver moves backward, the pedal-backward-preventive bracket being fixed to an instrumental panel support member extending in a vehicle width direction, a mount bracket on which a head-up display is mounted, the mount bracket being fixed to the instrumental panel support member, and a load transfer portion that is provided between the pedal-backward-preventive bracket and the mount bracket to transfer a rearward load input to the pedal-backward-preventive bracket to the mount bracket via the supporting portion.

Vehicle interior structure

A steering member comprises a beam member extending in a vehicle width direction, a steering bracket supporting a steering device, and side brackets fixed to hinge pillars. The beam member includes a weak portion provided between the steering bracket and the side brackets on a driver-seat side and configured to be weak against a load inputted in a vehicle longitudinal direction, and an extension portion provided to extend toward a vehicle outward side beyond the side bracket provided on a passenger-seat side and configured to prevent the steering member receiving the input load from sliding toward the passenger-seat side by contacting the hinge pillar. Accordingly, the steering device can be prevented from moving inward in a vehicle frontal collision, thereby restraining a passenger with an airbag properly.

Front vehicle-body structure of vehicle

A structure of a vehicle instrument panel area, which is capable of sufficiently ensuring a frontward displacement of a steering column adapted to be displaced frontwardly in response to an impact load applied thereto frontwardly, even under a condition that a column cover is disposed to overlap with a meter unit when viewed in an axial direction of the steering column. A meter unitis attached to an instrument panelthrough brittles portions, in such a manner as to allow the attachment therebetween to be released when a column coveris brought into contact with the meter unit

Structure of instrument panel area of vehicle

Disclosed is a vehicle interior illumination structure comprising, in combination, an instrument panelinstalled in a front interior area of a vehicle, and a light-guiding illumination memberdisposed in the instrument panel. The instrument panelis formed with a step portion S laterally extending at a height approximately equal to or above that of a mounting portion of a shaft of a steering wheelto the instrument panel. The step portion S is defined in such a manner that a step upper surfacelocated on the upper side of the step portion and a step lower surfacelocated on the lower side of the step portion are formed in the instrument panel, and the step upper surfacehas a rear edgeprotruding in the rearward direction of the vehicle relative to a front edgeof the step lower surface. The illumination memberis arranged to extend laterally at a position which is adjacent to the front edgeof the step lower surfaceand capable of preventing illumination light of the illumination memberfrom directly coming within the field of view of a driver sitting in a front seat in the vehicle interior. The vehicle interior illumination structure of the present invention can prevent illumination light of the illumination member from obstructing the driver's view.

Vehicle interior illumination structure

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Higashihiroshima, Japan

Hitoshi Ochimizu