Mazda Motor Corporation

Shinya Matsumoto

Yoshiaki Murakami

Yoshikazu Nishimura

Noritaka Sakiyama

Chikara Ishihara

Ken Ueki

Yukiichirou Shimada

Kota Matsue

Makoto Ikegami

Masamitsu Tanaka

Hirochika Iyoda

Noriyoshi Sahashi

An exhaust-gas purification device disposition structure of a vehicle, comprises a fuel tank with a fuel supply port which is disposed so as to be open to an outside of a vehicle compartment, and a urea tank to accommodate urea water solution as deoxidizer to purify exhaust gas. The urea tank is disposed outside the vehicle compartment, and a pouring port of the urea tank is provided inside the vehicle compartment. Accordingly, the urea water solution can be surely prevented from entering into the vehicle compartment even in case of the breakage of the urea tank, and the mistake of supplying the wrong liquid into the wrong supply (pouring) port tank which may be made by confusing the ports can be avoided.

Exhaust-gas purification device disposition structure of vehicle

There is provide a cover member which is pivotally connected to a vehicle floor near a rear end of a seat cushion at its lower end and to a seat back at its upper end. The seat back is supported by the cover member so as to move forward and be located in its rising position in front of the seat cushion and behind a front seat located before the rear seat according to a forward rotation of the cover member via the lower end pivotal connection to the vehicle floor. The cover member covers substantially an upper face of the seat cushion and provide a substantially flat and horizontal face at the vehicle rear in cooperation with a floor of the load compartment when the seat back has moved forward.

Seat structure for vehicle

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Higashihiroshima, Japan

Shinya Matsumoto