Mazda Motor Corporation

Ashimori Industry Co., Ltd.

Mazda Motor Corporat Ion

Kenichi Yukumatsu

Hideharu Kaeriyama

Yuta Minami

Masafumi Sakakida

Yoshio Fujii

Kohei Kirita

Hidenori Higo

Yosuke Onda

A steering wheel structure includes: a guide member () that is formed into a tubular shape, and attached to a mounting hole () formed in a mounting plate () of an airbag module (); a hook member () that is formed in a steering wheel (), and is inserted into the guide member (); a damper rubber () that is interposed between an edge portion of the mounting hole () in the mounting plate (), and the guide member (); and a lock spring () that is attached to the guide member (). The lock spring () is engaged with the hook member () inserted into the guide member () so as to prevent the hook member () from coming-off from the guide member ().

Steering wheel structure

A connection member which connects an outside portion of a cross member and an inside wall face portion of a side sill includes a cross-member-side connection portion connected to the cross member and a side-sill-side connection portion connected to the side sill, the side-sill-side connection portion is configured to have a lower rigidity than the cross-member-side connection portion, and an outside end portion of the cross member is located at a specified position which is located on the outside of the cross-member-side connection portion and on the inside away from the inside wall face portion of the side sill. Thereby, the impact load in the vehicle side collision can be effectively supported by the cross member with a simple structure.

Vehicle-body lower structure of vehicle

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Hiroshima, Japan

Kenichi Yukumatsu