Mazda Motor Corporation

Noriaki Fujie

Takashi Niseki

Motoki Yoshida

Noboru Yoshii

Kouji Tabata

Yoshio Fukushima

Seiji Ikejiri

A vehicle slide-door supporting structure is provided which includes: a slide door which is a side door that opens and closes an opening through which a person gets into and out of a vehicle, the opening being formed in a side part of a vehicle body, the side door being slid in the front and rear directions so that the opening is opened and closed, and the opening being opened when the side door is slid rearward; and a driving mechanism which is connected to the slide door and drives the slide door, in which one part of the driving mechanism is attached to a tail lamp which is disposed at the rear part of the vehicle body.

Vehicle slide-door supporting structure

A side structure of a vehicle in which a rear periphery, formed correspondingly in position to an area where a second window opening area is located, is positioned at the rear side of a second rear periphery formed at the lower side of the first rear periphery. When slide door is fully opened, the longitudinal length between a front periphery and the first rear periphery is larger than the length between the front periphery and the second rear periphery. For a rear periphery of the slide door, when the slide door is fully closed, a lower portion, substantially corresponding in position to the second rear periphery, is located in front of an upper portion, substantially corresponding in position to the first rear periphery.

Side structure of a vehicle

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Fuchu-cho, Japan

Noriaki Fujie