Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Koji Usui

Akiyoshi Sanada

Yasuhiko Fukuzumi

Tomoharu Tamaya

Hiroyuki Manjo

Eiji Nishikawa

Kentaro Nakashima

A vehicle includes a roof molding made of an elastic member disposed in a groove on a roof top surface formed in a coupling portion coupling a roof panel and a right side panel. The roof molding includes a lid portion covering an upper side of an opening portion of the groove. The roof panel includes a slope face descending toward the groove between a base face and the groove. An end of the lid portion of the roof molding extends to the slope face and is in contact with the slope face.

Vehicle top structure

A connecting structure includes: a molding having a fixed portion that is fixed on an inner surface of a lower edge of a windshield glass, and a fitting portion that receives an engagement rib that protrudes downward from a location near an upper edge of a cowl louver, wherein the engagement rib and the fitting portion include slip-out prevention projections that prevent the engagement rib from slipping out. On both sides of the engagement rib are provided elastic lips and that are supported by the fitting portion, and these elastic lips extend in the extending direction of the engagement rib and press on the engagement rib at a side closer to a tip of the engagement rib than the slip-out prevention projections, these elastic lips press each other in opposite directions.

Connecting structure for windshield glass and cowl louver, molding for connecting structure for windshield glass and cowl louver, and combination structure for connecting structure

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Nagoya, Japan

Koji Usui