Mazda Motor Corporation

Masaki Nakaura

Kazuhiro Tanaka

Masatoshi Takayama

Tadashi Ioka

Katsumi Sakane

Yasunari Hirotani

Shingo Kunihiro

Hirotaka Kusu

Asami Iwamoto

Yuzo Jp Sato

A pedestrian protection device for a vehicle is provided at a vehicle-body front portion which comprises an engine room, a cowl box provided at an upper portion of a dash panel and extending in a vehicle width direction, and an engine hood pivotally supported at the vehicle body via a first hinge provided at a rear end portion so as to cover over the engine room. An engine-hood guide mechanism guides the engine hood upwardly and rearwardly so as to cover at least part of the cowl box when a collision of a pedestrian against a front bumper face is detected or predicted, and lowers the engine hood downwardly when a load acting on the engine hood exceeds a specified load.

Pedestrian protection device for vehicle

A front body structure of a vehicle comprises a pair of front side frames, a bumper reinforcement, a bumper face, a leg-part sweeping-away member which is provided below the bumper reinforcement and extends in a vehicle width direction, a front end of which is positioned in front of the bumper reinforcement, and a support member which supports the leg-part sweeping-away member at the front side frame. The support member has a specified length in the vehicle longitudinal direction, and comprises beads which absorb an impact load inputted in the vehicle longitudinal direction through their deformation in the longitudinal direction.

Front body structure of vehicle

A slide door is provided to be movable between a closed position to cover a side opening formed at a vehicle-body side face and an open position. The slide door is configured to move outward and subsequently slide rearward along a rear vehicle-body outer face when the slide door moves from the closed position to the open position. There is provided a detection sensor to detect a foreign matter in coming into a gap from a vehicle-compartment inside. A drive of the slide door is stopped in case the detection sensor detects the foreign matter in coming into the gap when the slide door moves toward the open position. Thereby, any foreign matter can be prevented from being pinched in the gap formed between the slide door and the rear edge portion of the side opening.

Pinch prevention structure of slide door

Disclosed is an automobile roof structure, which comprises a pair of right and left roof side rails, a transparent roof panelattached to cover a space between the roof side rails, a sun shadedisposed slidably along a bottom surface of the transparent roof panel, and a shade support memberfor supporting the sun shadein a slidingly movable manner. Each of the roof side railsincludes a rail outer paneland a rail inner panelformed, respectively, with roof flangeswhich are oriented to protrude in a laterally inward direction of an automobile body and joined together. The roof flanges, a lateral peripheral portion of the transparent roof panel, and the shade support member, are disposed within a given positioning zone where they overlap each other in top plan view. The opposite lateral peripheral portion of the transparent roof panelis fixed onto an upper surface of the roof flangeof the rail outer panel, and the shade support memberis fixed to a wall of the rail inner panelat a position outward of the automobile body relative to the roof flangeof the rail outer panel

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Hiroshima, Japan

Masaki Nakaura