Mazda Motor Corporation

Webasto Ag

Shinji Mori

Atsushi Okamitsu

Teruo Yoshii

Manabu Takeshige

Koji Sumita

A storable vehicle roof structure having an upper roof component for covering an area above seats in a vehicle interior compartment, a rear roof component coupled to the upper roof component at a rear side thereof so as to cover a rear portion of the vehicle interior compartment, and a package tray which covers the top of a rear storage space in the closed position of the roof. The rear side of the package tray is fitted on the rear roof component via a rotary mechanism for rotating at least the front side of the package tray. The front side of the package tray is guided by a guide member to enable the package tray together with roof components to be stored in the storage space for exposing the vehicle interior compartment.

Storage structure of a vehicle roof

An anti-theft system for a vehicle includes a first control unit (an ammobilizer) that makes a collation of a key code of an individual key inserted in an ignition key with a reference key code representative of an intrinsic key exclusive to an engine of the vehicle stored in an EEPROM, stores data of a result of the collation, agreement or disagreement between the two key codes, in a B/URAM, and provides a second control unit for controlling engine operation with an instruction, an approval instruction for permitting the engine to operate or a refusal instruction for prohibit the engine from operating, according to the collation result that is stored in the B/URAM.

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Higashihiroshima, Japan

Shinji Mori