Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Iida Industry Co., Ltd.

Keisuke Suzuki

Masato Nakamura

Yoshimitsu Yokoi

Kenji Takada

Hironao Ito

Tetsuya Shinohara

Yasunori Yamada

Shinichirou Murofushi

Shigeaki Kitamura

The disclosure provides a vehicle front structure that includes a dash panel that separates a front compartment and a vehicle cabin from each other, and dash members attached to a surface of the dash panel on a side of the vehicle cabin. Right and left wheel house portions are provided in right and left lower half portions of the dash panel, respectively, the right and left wheel house portions projecting towards the vehicle cabin so as to configure rear walls of wheel houses for front tire wheel assemblies, respectively. The dash members are attached to surfaces of the wheel house portions on the vehicle cabin side, respectively, so as to obliquely extend downward and inward in a vehicle width direction from upper ends of the wheel house portions in the vehicle width direction, respectively.

Vehicle front structure

A body frame structure forming a side part of an automobile includes an outer panel, an inner panel that forms a closed space elongated in a first direction between the inner panel and the outer panel, a metal outer R/F disposed within the closed space, a resin R/F disposed within the closed space, and a foam disposed within the closed space. The closed space includes a three-layer structure including the outer R/F, the resin R/F, and the foam filling a space between the outer R/F and the resin R/F.

Body frame structure

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Toyota, Japan

Keisuke Suzuki