Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Nifco Inc.

Futaba Industrial Co., Ltd.

Kazuaki Kurita

Takehiko Nemoto

Nobuyasu Yamada

Akihiro Deshimaru

Norito Nishizawa

Hiroshi Ioku

Masao Wakigami

A steering member includes a main body extending in a vehicle-width direction, at least one support part, a reinforcing part, and a bracket. The support part supports the steering. The reinforcing part is formed in a plate-like shape and attached to a reinforced area of an outer circumferential surface of the main body. The bracket is attached to the reinforcing part and extends from the reinforcing part toward a front side of the vehicle so as to be attached to a body of the vehicle. The outer circumferential surface of the main body comprises a support area to which the at least one support part is attached. The reinforced area faces the support area across the main body.

Steering member

A steering support structure includes: an instrument panel reinforcement extending in a vehicle width direction; and a steering support bracket attached to the instrument panel reinforcement and supports a steering column. The steering support bracket includes an upper bracket joined to an upper side of the instrument panel reinforcement in a vehicle up-down direction, and a lower bracket joined to a lower side of the instrument panel reinforcement in the vehicle up-down direction and fastened and fixed to the upper bracket.

Steering support structure

To obtain a foldable storage box in which an open state can be easily held. When a bottom board () in a stored state is transitioned to an open state, a pressing part () formed on the bottom board () presses one projecting part of a V form of a rotating member (). The rotating member () rotates when the rotating member () is pressed, and a rod-form lock member () connected with the rotating member () rotates so as to extend in a horizontal direction. A leading end part of the lock member () is thereby inserted into a recessed pocket part () formed on a second side wall board (B). The lock member () is disposed so as to span between a first side wall board (A) and the second side wall board (B) when the leading end part of the lock member () is inserted into the pocket part. In other words, a lock device () is disposed in a locked state in which an open state of the side wall boards () is locked.

Foldable storage box

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Kazuaki Kurita