Mazda Motor Corporation

Iwao Koizumi

Satoshi Hayasaka

Kouichi Hayashi

Kunihiko Kurisu

Tadao Hoshino

Yasutake Tsuchida

Kazuhiro Ito

Dai Kimura

Takeshi Shinohara

Kousuke Takahashi

Kazuya Hamada

Kaname Sawai

Masayoshi Sannomiya

Shinichi Isayama

Akira Tamatani

Masashi Aikawa

Tomoyuki Mori

Atsunori Mori

Yuji Ishimoto

Kota Akagawa

Tsuneaki Zenitani

Kenji Nonaka

Kouji Kishino

Eiichi Hamanaga

Takeshi Tajima

Kenji Kato

Kiyoshi Kitsuki

Katsuya Miyazaki

Toshiaki Yamayoshi

Takashi Ono

Kouji Sakamoto

Portion of a headlight for a motor vehicle

Portion of a rear light for a motor vehicle

Bumper for motor vehicle

Disclosed is a vehicle body structure which has a sub-window plate and a front fender each disposed at the rear of a headlamp lens on a sidewall of a vehicle body. In the vehicle body structure, a longitudinally-extending concave portionis defined between the front fenderand a combination of a front pillarand a hood. The concave portionhas at least a frontward region partly receiving therein a headlamp lensand a rearward region receiving therein the sub-window plateat the rear of the headlamp lens, whereby a plurality of components including at least the headlamp lensand the sub-window plateare received in the concave portionto form a belt-line surface module F which continuously covers the concave portionto define a transparent or semi-transparent exterior surface on the sidewall of the vehicle body. The vehicle body structure of the present invention makes it possible to further effectively utilize a sidewall surface of the vehicle body so as to desirably enhance a function of the sidewall surface as a whole.

Vehicle body structure

Bumper of motor vehicle

Radiator grill

Center console of motor vehicle

Growing community of inventors

Hiroshima, Japan

Iwao Koizumi