Mazda Motor Corporation

Kohji Hashida

Naoki Shibata

Satoshi Nakamura

Kenji Maruyama

Hirotaka Natsume

Isamu Kizaki

Hiroshi Sogabe

Toshiharu Ikeda

Yoshikazu Ide

Nobuhiko Yokoyama

Yasuhiko Nishida

Nobuyuki Shibutake

Hidetaka Goto

Seiji Nakano

Hiroaki Ishizu

Masashi Notomi

Toshinori Toyohara

Shintaro Shinbo

Jumpei Kawamoto

Disclosed herein is an damping structure including a vibration energy damping member absorbing, from a vibration energy path member, at least part of noise vibration energy transmitted through the vibration energy path member, wherein a length of the vibration energy damping member is equal to or more than a half of a wavelength of the vibration of the vibration energy path member, and at least one attachment part attaching the vibration energy damping member to the vibration energy path member is disposed in a position corresponding to an antinode of the vibration of the vibration energy path member.

Noise vibration energy damping structure in vehicle

There are provided a pair of diagonally-extending inclination members which are formed in a substantially X shape in a plan view and provided above or below a floor panel. Each of the pair of inclination members is configured to interconnect a connection portion of one of right-and-left side sills and a hinge pillar and a connection portion of the other of the right-and-left side sills and a center pillar. Thereby, a load-transmission efficiency between a front end of the above-described one of the right-and-left side sills and the other of the right-and-left side sills can be improved in the SOL or vehicle side collisions.

Lower vehicle-body structure of vehicle

A support structure of a windshield of the present invention comprises a frame having an open section opening forward in a vehicle and a support member provided inside the frame and connecting an upper face portion and a lower face portion of the frame. The frame has a windshield support portion supporting a lower side portion of the windshield at part of the upper face portion. The support member includes a rear support portion attached to the upper face portion of the frame and a front support portion attached to a cowl panel at a specified location positioned in front of the rear support portion. The windshield support portion is positioned between the front and rear support portions in the vehicle longitudinal direction.

Support structure of windshield

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Hiroshima, Japan

Kohji Hashida