Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Jidosha Engineering Kabushiki Kaisha

Masahiro Awano

Hiroyuki Kurokawa

Kenichi Okamura

Shigeki Watanabe

Takanobu Uchida

Kazufumi Takayanagi

Yoshinori Yokota

A vehicle front-end body structure, includes: front side members provided along a left side and a right side of a front portion of a vehicle body, a front deck cross member provided between side walls of the vehicle body, including joint portions for joining the front deck cross member to the side walls; and a connecting member made up of a pipe material including end portions and a middle portion disposed between the end portions. The end portions are joined to the vicinities of the joint portions respectively. The middle portion is joined to the front side members respectively.

Vehicle front-end body structure

In a vehicle body structure, rear portions of right and left front side members are gently curved downward, and rear end portions of the right and left front side members are bonded to front floor side members. A dash panel is provided to separate an engine compartment and a passenger compartment of a vehicle. A cross member dash assuming a closed cross-sectional shape is fixed to a front surface of the dash panel. Opposite end portions of the cross member dash are bent toward the rear of the vehicle to constitute bent portions. Side member braces are laid between the front side members and the bent portions of the cross member dash to connect them together.

Vehicle body structure

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Okazaki, Japan

Masahiro Awano