Mazda Motor Corporation

Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Osamu Kishi

Kanji Hayashi

Shigeaki Watanabe

Kuniyoshi Tashiro

Kazuo Morimoto

Kazuki Yamauchi

Ikuo Wakamoto

Katsumasa Sogame

Hideaki Furumoto

Isao Tohda

Minoru Toyota

Masayoshi Sannomiya

Noritaka Sakiyama

Hideto Yamada

Hiroyuki Akaki

Yukio Nakamura

Yuta Takamura

Osamu Kurogi

Osami Ohno

Kohji Noma

Osamu Miyamoto

Yasuyuki Yoshida

Taichi Kobayashi

Yasuhiro Kouhara

Hideki Akita

Yoshiyuki Kasuga

Satoshi Harada

A support mount bracket () provided on a vehicle frame () and configured to support a mount part () of a front differential gear unit () is arranged on part of a cross-member () connecting a pair of right and left main frames () so as to be, in a vehicle width direction, displaced from the center of a vehicle () in a width direction thereof. The support mount bracket () includes a base part () to be connected to the cross-member (), and a pair of fixing parts () protruding from the base part () and sandwiching the mount part () from sides thereof in the vehicle width direction. One () of the fixing parts () on a side closer to the center of the vehicle () in the width direction thereof is detachably attached to the base part ().

Support mount bracket, method for mounting front differential gear unit, and attachment structure of front differential gear unit

An engine positioning structure is used for a rear wheel drive automobile, with an engine mounted in an engine compartment driving the rear wheels. In the automobile having a passenger compartment and the engine compartment, where the two compartments are separated by a dash panel, the engine is positioned so that a rotation axis of the engine is at a position higher than the height of a floor panel of the passenger compartment, and a rear end part of the engine is positioned behind a general plane defined by a position corresponding to the position of a passenger relative to a dash panel. The engine positioning structure enables a retreated layout of the engine to be obtained. It also reduces Yaw moment of inertia, and improves the steering stability.

Engine positioning structure for an automobile

A vehicle having a plurality of seats is generally provided with a plurality of seatbelt units and a seat sliding device for adjusting the positions of a first seat and a second seat located rearward of the first seat. The sliding device of the present invention comprises a pair of continuous rail members for guiding the first and second seats in a lengthwise direction of the vehicle. Each of the rails extends across the first and second seats. First and second sliders on the rails carry the first and second seats, respectively, so that both the first and second seats are movable substantially throughout the lengths of the rail members in the lengthwise direction. A first and second latch mechanisms are provided for positioning the first and second seats in place on the rail members, respectively. The first and second latch mechnisms are provided on the first and second sliders so as to be moved together with the corresponding sliders, respectively.

Seat sliding device for vehicle

In a continuous rolling line wherein the tail end part of a preceding rolled plate and the head end part of a following rolled plate are joined subsequently to a rough rolling and subjected to a following continuous finish rolling: a joining method of rolled plates wherein the tail end of the preceding rolled plate and the head end of the following rolled plate are formed into a nearly rectangular convex and concave shape respectively so as to inlay each other, the convex part and the concave part being combined each other in the same plane as the rolling lines, and then being fed to the continuous finish rolling; a joining method rolled plates wherein the side surface of the parallel inlay is formed in a taper shape in the direction of the plate thickness at any desired location of either the tail end part of the preceding rolled plate or the head end part of the backward rolled plate or of the both parts, and then being fed to the continuous finish rolling; and a joining method of rolled plates wherein the cut parts of the preceding and the following rolled plates are inlaid each other at the same plane, and joining only a part of the side edge of the inlay.

Method for joining rolled plates

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Hiroshima, Japan

Osamu Kishi