Toyota Shatai Kabushiki Kaisha

Kyoraku Co., Ltd.

Inoac Corporation

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Nobuhiro Ichimura

Hayato Kamigashima

Naoto Tani

Hidetoshi Matsumoto

Mikio Nakashima

Kouji Yamashita

Yukihiro Onishi

Takahiro Mizuno

A vehicle-body lower structure includes: a side sill; and a cross member, wherein the side sill includes a side sill outer and a side sill inner, a bulk having a shape corresponding to the cross member is provided on the opposite side of the side sill inner from the cross member in a closed-section space formed by the side sill outer and the side sill inner, and the bulk includes a front wall portion, a rear wall portion placed behind the front wall portion in the vehicle-body front-rear direction, and a connecting wall portion connecting the front wall portion and the rear wall portion, the front wall portion and the connecting wall portion forming a first edge line extending in the vehicle width direction, and the rear wall portion and the connecting wall, portion forming a second edge line extending in the vehicle width direction.

Vehicle-body lower structure

An air-conditioning duct for vehicles with one duct mutually connected and fixed to the other duct is provided. One duct is formed by incorporating a first unit duct with a flange formed around an opening periphery thereof and a second unit duct with a flange formed around an opening periphery thereof in parallel. The other duct is formed by incorporating a third unit duct with a flange formed around an opening periphery thereof and a fourth unit duct with a flange formed around an opening periphery thereof in parallel. The flange formed on the boundary side of the second unit duct are fixed with one over another, and the flange formed on the boundary side of the third unit duct and the flange formed on the boundary side of the fourth unit duct are fixed with one over another.

Air-conditioning duct

A structure for connecting an air-conditioning duct to an air-conditioning unit; the air-conditioning unithaving a first air supply outlet 11 and a second air supply outletadjacent with each other, the air-conditioning duct having a first air passage and a second air passage adjacent with each other, wherein the first air supply outletand the second air supply outletinclude a U-shaped auxiliary wallhaving a notched part K at one side therearound, a supply outlet boundary wallseparating the first air supply outletand the second air supply outlet, and a duct side step part Z is formed between an opening rim of a first ductand an opening rim of a second duct, the duct side step part Z is contacted with is contacted with the supply outlet boundary wallto install the air-conditioning ductto the air-conditioning unit

Structure for installing air-conditioning duct to air-conditioning unit

A duct installation structure in which an air conditioning duct for sending warm air or cold air into a vehicle interior of an automobile is attached to a vehicle interior structure member and an outlet grill is attached to an outlet opening end portion of the air conditioning duct. A grill fixing portion to which the outlet grill is to be fixed is integrally molded with a duct main body portion at the outlet opening end portion of the air conditioning duct. The outlet grill is directly fixed to the grill fixing portion. The outlet opening end portion of the air conditioning duct including, at one point near its center in a width direction, a fastening fixing portion that is fastened and fixed to the vehicle interior structure member and including, at its opposite ends in the width direction, a pair of contact portions for coming in contact with the vehicle interior structure member.

Duct installation structure

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Kariya, Japan

Nobuhiro Ichimura