Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

F-tech Inc.

Showa Corporation

F. Tech Incorporation

Junichi Midorikawa

Mitsuru Inoue

Hiroyuki Takahashi

Yasutaka Ohta

Yutaka Hozumi

Takuya Yanagida

Tetsu Ogawa

Yohei Kenmotsu

Masayuki Sasaki

Kenji Fukasawa

Kenji Kato

Sumitaka Ito

A motor drive device includes: a trailing arm that extends in a vehicle front-rear direction and includes a vehicle body-side attachment portion and wheel-side support portion, the vehicle body-side attachment portion formed on a forward portion side of the trailing arm and coupled to a vehicle body via a rubber bush, the wheel-side support portion formed on a rear side of the trailing arm and supporting a rear wheel; and a motor that is supported by the trailing arm and drives the rear wheel. The motor and the rubber bush are disposed in such a way that motor and the rubber bush are seen as being substantially aligned in a vehicle up-down direction when viewed in a vehicle width direction.

Motor drive device

A suspension arm mounting structure comprises: an arm body section () which is disposed between a wheel and a vehicle body and which is configured from a plate-shaped member; a rubber elastic body () which is provided between the arm body section () and the vehicle body; and a shaft section () which is extended from the arm body section () in the front-rear direction of the vehicle, is press-fitted or fitted in the through-hole () of the rubber elastic body (), and has a tube-like shape or a closed cross-sectional shape. The shaft section () has a pressing section () which causes both end surfaces of the plate-shaped member to face each other and press against each other so that the opposing end surfaces are in contact with each other so as to press against each other.

Suspension arm mounting structure

A vehicular suspension includes a trailing arm and a substantially plate-like lower arm. The trailing arm is pivotably supported at its front end on a vehicle body via an elastic joint and extends from the front end toward the rear of the vehicle body. The lower arm extends in the vehicle width direction with its inner end pivotably supported on the vehicle body and its outer end fixed to a rear part of the trailing arm. A flat first seating surface of an end plate welded to the rear end of the trailing arm is superimposed on a flat second seating surface provided at the outer end of the lower arm, and an inner periphery of a closed rectangular opening formed on the second seating surface is welded to the first seating surface by a weld. The second seating surface of the lower arm protrudes from a main body portion via a slant surface.

Vehicular suspension

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Tochigi, Japan

Junichi Midorikawa