Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Minoru Yoshida

Masaru Toyota

Takayuki Okubo

Hirokazu Kawabe

Yoshiharu Yamanaka

A door structure for a vehicle that includes a door outer panel; a door inner panel including a first join-receiving portion protruding to the vehicle upper side relative to a vehicle upper side end of the door outer panel, and a second join-receiving portion protruding to the vehicle upper side relative to the vehicle upper side end of the door outer panel and being disposed to be spaced apart from the first join-receiving portion in a vehicle horizontal direction along the vehicle upper side end of the door outer panel; and a frame portion formed using a material with a different thermal expansion coefficient from the door inner panel, the frame portion including a first joining portion joined to the first join-receiving portion by a rivet and a second joining portion joined to the second join-receiving portion by a rivet.

Door structure for a vehicle

A window panel support structure includes a fixed panel, and a movable panel. The movable panel opens and closes a window by moving up and down. A front-side guide member is provided on an interior-side face of a rear edge part of the fixed panel which is adjacent to the movable panel. The front-side guide member includes a front-side guide groove provided along the rear edge part. The front-side guide groove is opened toward a front edge part. A front-side slide member is provided on an interior-side face of a front edge part of the movable panel which is adjacent to the fixed panel. The front-side slide member includes a front slider provided along the front edge part and is bent toward a rear edge part. The front slider is fitted to the front-side guide groove.

Window panel support structure

An outer frame reinforcement is disposed on the door outer side of an inner panel-side sash portion of a door inner panel. The outer frame reinforcement includes a frame-side sash portion, a hinge reinforcement portion, and a lock reinforcement portion. Here, the upper end of the hinge reinforcement portion is joined to the front side lower end of the frame-side sash portion, and the upper end of the lock reinforcement portion is joined to the rear side lower end of the frame-side sash portion. Furthermore, the hinge reinforcement portion and the lock reinforcement portion are set thicker than the frame-side sash portion. Because of this, the outer frame reinforcement can be formed by making the reinforcement portions thick and joining the reinforcement portions to the frame-side sash portion. Because of this, it becomes unnecessary to increase the plate thickness of the entire outer frame reinforcement.

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Minoru Yoshida