Mazda Motor Corporation

Daikyonishikawa Corporation

Starlite Co., Ltd.

Kazuma Kondou

Arihiro Furumoto

Yuhki Takanaga

Manabu Yamaoka

Masanori Ogawa

Sakayu Terada

Kunio Takahashi

Takayuki Nakamae

Yushi Matsuda

Yoshiatsu Kuga

Naoki Nagano

Toshio Sakamoto

Masao Hara

Yasunori Kageyama

Naoaki Yamamoto

Tadashi Udo

Daisaburou Adachi

Takahide Ohhira

Yutaka Tsukiji

Tarou Maeda

Hiroshi Yokokura

Yoshimitsu Hayamizu

Naoya Takashima

Toshio Takata

Tatsuhiko Iwamoto

Minoru Ohkubo

Provided is a vehicle shutter capable of detecting a flap to which power transmission is cut off by providing turn restriction units each having a simple structure in flaps. The vehicle shutter is provided with: a plurality of flapscapable of opening and closing an outside air introduction pathfor introducing outside air into an engine compartment and arranged in parallel to each other so as to cross the outside air introduction path; a linkage operation section linking the flapswith each other to perform an opening/closing operation of the flaps; a drive section driving the flapsto be open and closed through the linkage operation section; an abnormality detection section detecting an abnormality of the flapson the basis of an operating state of the drive section; and an abnormality notification section notifying the abnormality to a user on the basis of output from the abnormality detection section. Opening failure detecting restriction unitsand closing failure detecting restriction unitsare formed on adjacent flapsas turn restriction units which restrict, when power transmission to one of the adjacent flapsfrom the drive section is cut off, the other flapfrom turning.

Vehicle shutter

A grill shutter unit comprises a shutter unit provided in back of a traveling-air introductory port formed at a front end of a vehicle body and including shutter members, and a traveling-air guide member including a guide frame portion provided at an outer peripheral edge portion of the shutter unit and a seal portion provided to extend forward continuously from a front end of the guide frame portion and be made from soft synthetic resin having more flexibility than the frame portion, wherein the grill shutter unit is configured such that when the shutter members are closed, a seal portion of the traveling-air guide member is pressed against an outer peripheral wall face of the traveling-air introductory port by pressure of traveling air shut off by the shutter members closed.

Grill shutter structure of vehicle

An opening portion is formed at an upper-side portion of a shroud panel so as to penetrate the panel longitudinally. A face member and a face support member form a duct that guides part of outside air coming in through an outside-air intake of the face member to an opening portion of the shroud panel. Accordingly, there can be provided a bumper structure that can properly guide the outside air to an engine room behind the heat exchanger.

Bumper structure of automotive vehicle

In the case of mounting a liquid storage tank or an intake air resonator on a substantially frame-shaped resin shroud panel () with an opening () in which a radiator () is disposed, the shroud panel () is integrally formed at its both lateral sides with body fastening parts () which will be fastened to right and left front side frames (), respectively, and the body fastening parts () are integrally formed on their outsides in the vehicle width direction with casing placement parts () on which will be placed a casing () for a liquid storage tank and a casing () for an intake air resonator in proximity to the body fastening parts (), respectively.

Vehicle front end structure

Disclosed is a front structure of a vehicle, which comprises a pair of right and left front side frames, a shroud installed between respective front ends of the side frames, a pair of right and left headlamps each arranged on a lateral side of a corresponding one of laterally opposite sidewalls of the shroud and provided with a headlamp housing serving as an outer shell thereof, and a hood panel adapted to cover above the shroud when it is in a fully closed position. In this front structure, each of the headlamp housings has a contact portion located below a corresponding one of opposite front lateral ends of the hood panel in the fully closed position, and each of the sidewalls of the shroud has an upper region provided with a catch portion which is disposed above and in opposed relation to the contact portion of a corresponding one of the headlamp housings and adapted to come into contact with the contact portion when the headlamp housing is applied with an eternal impact force, so as to restrict an upward movement of the headlamp.

Front structure of vehicle

The invention provides a structure of a front part of a vehicle body that is simple and free from the risk of maloperation. In the event of a collision between the vehicle and a pedestrian, a projecting part sweeps the pedestrian by parts of his or her legs lower than the knees in the event of a collision between the vehicle and the pedestrian, causing the pedestrian to be thrown over toward the vehicle, and after an energy-absorbing member has absorbed impact energy exerted on the legs, the pedestrian is caused to drop onto the top of a hood and protected from secondary damage. In one specific example, a structure of a front part of a vehicle body in which a bumper ( ) is provided at a lower front position of a hood ( ) of the vehicle comprises a lateral supporting member ( ) provided in the front part of the vehicle body and extending in the direction of vehicle width, an energy-absorbing member ( ) provided ahead of the lateral supporting member ( ), and a projecting part ( ) provided at a lower part of the bumper in such a manner that a forward end of the projecting part ( ) juts out more frontward than the lateral supporting member ( ).

Structure of the front of a vehicle body

The present invention provides a vehicle lamp device capable of relieving the impact acting from the vehicle lamp device to an obstacle, and thereby achieving a simple and relatively spaceless structure. The vehicle lamp device comprises a thin grooved portion (a displacement allowing structure) for allowing the housing to be displaced. The displacement allowing structure is provided in an interfering portion of the housing interfering with a front side frame (a vehicle body member) which locates in the displacement area where the housing is displaced and interrupts the housing to be displaced when the vehicle lamp device collides with an obstacle.

Vehicle lamp device

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Aki-gun, Japan

Kazuma Kondou