Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Subaru Corporation

Kenji Watanuki

Masahiro Saito

Daisuke Yamada

Masaru Kogure

Yuichiro Tsukasaki

Koushi Yamada

Hideki Hata

Hidehisa Tomizawa

Toshi Ishida

Yoshiaki Utsugi

Toshiyuki Hyuga

Kensuke Ohshima

Kazuya Morota

Masato Nakatake

Kazuya Ando

Masashi Imoto

Kazuyuki Kotsuka

Ryuji Nozaki

Takashi Kogure

In a vehicle air guide path structure, a vertically long air guide path forming member is provided along an outer edge of a side surface portion of a vehicle body on a rear side of a wheel house. A vertically long air guide path is formed at the rear side of the wheel house. The vertically long air guide path suctions air from the wheel house and exhausts air along a side surface of the vehicle body. A partition member partitions the vertically long air guide path so as to form a plurality of sections in an upper-lower direction. A vertically long inclined surface is formed on the side surface portion of the vehicle body at a rear side of the vertically long air guide path. The partition member protrudes to a rear side from the vertically long air guide path.

Vehicle air guide path structure and air guide path forming member

A suspension device has longitudinal force compliance steer properties to steer a rear wheel to toe-in or toe-out according to increase in longitudinal force applied to wheel treads of a rear wheel. The suspension device includes: a hub bearing housing; suspension links having both edges pivotally attached to a vehicle body and a hub bearing respectively, to support the hub bearing housing; a suspension spring generating reaction force corresponding to relative displacement amount in the longitudinal direction of the hub bearing housing as to the vehicle body; a damper generating damping force corresponding to relative speed in the longitudinal direction of the hub bearing housing as to the vehicle body; and a toe change generating unit generating toe change in a direction where toe change due to longitudinal force compliance properties is temporarily cancelled out or suppressed at an early stage of turning of the vehicle.

Suspension device

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Tokyo, Japan

Kenji Watanuki