Mazda Motor Corporation

Mazda Motor Corportion

Keizo Ito

Mitsusou Nakano

Mitsuyuki Shoda

A vehicle body structure, in which seats are placed side by side above an engine mounted across a floor of a vehicle compartment, has a hole for an access to the engine. A seat mount platform, disposed above the access hole, is interconnected by a hinge mechanism foldable along a fold line so as to be turned up and down about the fold line, thereby opening and closing the access hole.

Body structure for automotive vehicle

An automobile front body structure comprising a dashboard lower panel positioned below a front windshield and extending laterally across an automobile body structure so as to define an engine room and a passenger's compartment on respective sides thereof, a cowl box of generally elongated box-like configuration mounted atop the dashboard lower panel while extending laterally across the automobile body structure, and a generally elongated windshield support beam structure of generally closed hollow cross-section extending laterally across the automobile body structure for supporting the windshield from below. The beam structure is formed in an upper region of the cowl box. An upper portion of the cowl box has a first opening defined therein for communicating the interior of the cowl box to the outside. A bottom portion of the cowl box has a second opening defined therein opening towards the passenger's compartment and communicating with a suction port of an air conditioner. The interior of the beam structure and the second opening are communicated with each other through a connecting passage and a portion of the interior of the cowl box and the interior of the beam structure are communicated with a vent opening defined frontwardly of the beam structure.

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Hiroshima, Japan

Keizo Ito