Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Norimasa Koreishi

Yasuhiro Hara

Jumpei Watanabe

Hirotaka Ishioka

Hideo Takeda

Akiyoshi Watanabe

Hideyuki Yoshioka

Sota Sugimoto

Hitoshi Takezoe

Kazuki Ohtake

Koji Tokuyama

Yasuhiko Fukuzumi

Kentaro Adachi

Yoshimune Shimada

Yoshio Nakamura

Hideyuki Yoshioaka

A space for installing a seat mechanism can be reduced as compared with a prior art when a seatback is supported by support members. A rear panel is provided upright to partition an inside and an outside of a vehicle cabin. A seat support body includes support columns that are fixtures and seat crosses that are support members. The support columns are fixed to a rear panel. The seat crosses are supported by the rear panel with a gap therebetween via the support columns. Each seatback is supported on a back face thereof by the seat crosses. A belt path through which a webbing extends from a retractor to a shoulder anchor is formed in the gap between the seat crosses and the rear panel.

Vehicle seat structure

A driver's cab is located at the front end portion of a vehicle. A sensor unit is provided on the front face of a body of the vehicle and is located at the same height as the driver's-cab floor of the driver's cab. A floor crossing member extends along the lateral direction of the vehicle on the driver's-cab floor between the sensor unit and an accelerator pedal. The floor crossing member has both sides coupled one-to-one with a left front side member and a right front side member extending along the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, respectively, at the left front portion and right front portion of the vehicle. After entering the driver's cab due to a frontal collision, the sensor unit abuts on the floor crossing member, leading to suppression of the distance of entry of the sensor unit into the driver's cab.

Vehicular front structure including vehicle front face sensor unit and floor crossing member

The window frame member has a horizontal bar shape, disposed between the upper window panel and the lower window panel and supports a lower end of the upper window panel and an upper end of the lower window panel. The window frame member has opposite longitudinal ends fixed to a B pillar and a C pillar, vertical pillars of the vehicle cabin, respectively. The seat cross member also has opposite longitudinal ends fixed to the B pillar and the C pillar. The window frame member and the seat cross member overlap each other at least partially in a portion along a vehicle height, and extend with a horizontal gap disposed therebetween over their entire lengths. The horizontal gap is less than a horizontal width of each of the window frame member and the seat cross member.

Vehicle cabin partition structure

The vehicle floor structure includes a left rocker disposed on a side surface of the vehicle, a front floor cross member having a hat-shaped cross section composed of the upper open groove portion and the rear upper flange and the front upper flange, and a front connecting member for connecting the left rocker and the front floor cross member. The left rocker is arranged so that the height of the upper surface is lower than the rear upper flange and the front upper flange of the front floor cross member. Front connecting member has a hat-shaped cross section composed of a lower open groove portion and a rear lower flange, a front lower flange. The front connecting member connects the upper surface of the left rocker, the upper rear flange of the front floor cross member, and the upper front flange.

Vehicle floor structure

A vehicle front section structure including left and right front side frames, and left and right front side members. The left and right front side frames extend along a vehicle front-rear direction at respective sides in a vehicle width direction with respect to the power unit. A lower kick section sloping with a downward gradient on progression toward a vehicle rear side is formed at a rear section of each of the front side frames. The left and right front side members extend along the vehicle front-rear direction at a vehicle upper side of the left and right front side frames, are supported by the left and right front side frames, and configure part of a vehicle body. An upper kick section sloping with a downward gradient on progression toward the vehicle rear side is formed at a rear section of each of the front side members.

Vehicle front section structure

A vehicular front structure includes: a left front pillar disposed at a left front face of a body of a vehicle; a right front pillar disposed at a right front face of the body; an upper front crossing member extending along a lateral direction of the vehicle, the upper front crossing member having respective ends coupled one-to-one with the left front pillar and the right front pillar; a lower front crossing member extending along the lateral direction of the vehicle, the lower front crossing member having respective ends coupled one-to-one with the left front pillar and the right front pillar; and an external display coupled with the upper front crossing member and the lower front crossing member.

Vehicular front structure

Instrument panel side parts are provided integrally with an instrument panel main body part. Vehicle-mounted components are housed in the instrument panel side parts. Thus, even in a vehicle in which an engine compartment is not provided on a vehicle front side in a vehicle cabin it is possible to ensure a housing space for these vehicle mounting parts. Further, the instrument panel side parts are provided integrally with the instrument panel main body part. Thus, compared to a case in which the instrument panel side parts are separated from the instrument panel main body part, a space around the driver's seat can be expanded by the reduced amount of dead space, and the comfortability of the driver can be ensured.

Vehicle front part structure

A vehicle front section structure includes: a power unit installed at a front section; a left and right pair of front side frames extending in a vehicle front-rear direction; a left and right pair of front side members extending in the vehicle front-rear direction at a vehicle upper side of the left and right pair of front side frames, with rear end portions of the front side members being respectively joined to the left and right pair of front side frames; a cross member disposed at a vehicle rear side and obliquely upward of the power unit so as to span between the left and right pair of front side members and to support a driving seat of the vehicle; and a reinforcement brace spanning between the cross member and at least one front side member of the left front side member or a right front side member.

A vehicle front section structure includes left and right front side frame. A deformation portion configured to undergo compression deformation in the vehicle front-rear direction at a time of head-on collision of the vehicle is provided at a front end portion of each of the left and right front side frames. Left and right front side members that support a floor section of a vehicle cabin extend along the vehicle front-rear direction at a vehicle upper side with respect to the left and right front side frames. Front sections of the left and right front side members and the corresponding left and right deformation portions are connected by left and right coupling members. The left and right coupling members are configured so as to more readily undergo plastic deformation under collision load at a time of head-on collision than the left and right front side members.

A vehicle front portion structure includes: a dash panel separating a power unit compartment provided at a lower portion of a vehicle front portion from a cabin; a partition wall having a lower end portion secured to a vehicle rear end portion of the dash panel and extending in a vehicle upward direction to divide the cabin into a front portion and a rear portion; a front portion vehicle seat disposed on the dash panel; a seat support member supporting the front portion vehicle seat from a vehicle lower side and having a front end portion secured to the dash panel and a rear end portion secured to the partition wall; and an autonomous driving unit, at least part of the autonomous driving unit being disposed in an area surrounded by the dash panel, the partition wall, and the seat support member.

Vehicle front portion structure

A compressor installation structure for a vehicle has: a battery that is disposed at a vehicle lower side of a floor portion of a vehicle cabin; a power unit that is disposed at one side in a vehicle front-rear direction with respect to the battery; and a compressor that is configured to be driven by electric power supplied thereto from the battery, and that is disposed at one side in the vehicle front-rear direction with respect to the battery, and that is disposed at another side in a vehicle front-rear direction with respect to the power unit.

Compressor installation structure for vehicle

The bottom bracket supports the bottom wall of the housing of the electronic device unit. The rear end of the support rod is in contact with the front wall of the housing. The support rod extends from the front wall of the housing to the front of the vehicle. A front bracket supports the front portion of the support rod. The front bracket has a flange and a hook. The flange is secured to the vehicle body in an area adjacent to the support rod in the width direction. The hook is connected to the flange at one end. The hook extends from the vehicle-width side of the support rod across the top surface of the support rod to the opposite side of the vehicle-width side. Furthermore, the hook is free-ended at the other end.

Support structure for onboard electronic device assembly

A vehicle lower part structure includes: center rail portions disposed at a central part in a front-rear direction of the vehicle; front rail portions disposed forward of the center rail portions in the front-rear direction of the vehicle; rear rail portions disposed rearward of the center rail portions in the front-rear direction of the vehicle; front connecting rail portions connecting the center rail portions and the front rail portions in the front-rear direction of the vehicle; rear connecting rail portions connecting the center rail portions and the rear rail portions in the front-rear direction of the vehicle; first mount portions supporting a vehicle body constituting a cabin; and second mount portions supporting the vehicle body.

Vehicle lower part structure

An electric vehicle cooling system, including: a first radiator installed at a vehicle and configured to cool a power unit driven by electrical power; and a second radiator installed at the vehicle, disposed at least at one side in a vehicle width direction, or another side in the vehicle width direction, of the first radiator so as not to overlap with the first radiator as viewed along a vehicle front-rear direction, and configured to cool an autonomous driving control device configured to control autonomous driving of the vehicle.

Electric vehicle cooling system

An electric vehicle cooling system, including: a first radiator installed at a vehicle and configured to cool a power unit driven by electrical power; and a second radiator installed at the vehicle, disposed at a vehicle front side of the first radiator, and configured to cool an autonomous driving control device configured to control autonomous driving of the vehicle.

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Miyoshi, Japan

Norimasa Koreishi