Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Shuichiro Iwatsuki

Manabu Tanaka

Mitsunori Matsumoto

Takashi Kikuchi

Takashi Chirifu

Akihiro Sukegawa

Yasuyuki Kato

Momoka Fujii

Satoshi Nakagawa

Kenji Ohkura

Momoka Horiuchi

A vehicle upper body structure includes a roof panel, a roof arch that extends across the roof panel in a vehicle width direction and that is joined to a lower surface of the roof panel, and a roof antenna disposed on an upper surface of the roof panel. The roof arch includes a first roof arch and a second roof arch disposed in front of the first roof arch. An antenna bracket that allows the roof antenna to be mounted thereon extends frontward from a midpoint of the first roof arch in the vehicle width direction or a vicinity of the midpoint. The antenna bracket supports the roof panel, and the second roof arch is disposed so that as viewed from above the vehicle body, at least part of the second roof arch extends between right and left rear pillars.

Vehicle upper body structure

In a fuel cell vehicle, a stack case containing a fuel cell stack is mounted in a front box. Exhaust ducts are connected to openings formed in an upper panel of the stack case. A right exhaust duct connected to the exhaust ducts is opened to a right fender part, and a left exhaust duct connected to the exhaust ducts is opened to a left fender part.

Fuel cell vehicle

A suspension support member is mounted on a vehicle body to support a coil spring and a shock absorber forming a suspension, and is formed of a cast article including a spring seat for the coil spring and a pivot support section for the shock absorber, which are disposed independently from each other. Thus, the suspension support member is provided which ensures that the supported positions of the coil spring and the shock absorber in the suspension can be determined simply with a good accuracy, and which has a high rigidity and moreover, enables the generation of noises to be inhibited remarkably.

Suspension supporting member for vehicle

In a space frame type vehicle body structure, a floor member has a side sill inner half securely attached along each side edge thereof, and a side frame has a side sill outer half securely attached along a lower edge thereof, and these two halves are provided with mutually cooperating snap fit arrangement. Because the floor member and the side frame are individually provided with a sufficient rigidity, and they can be temporarily secured each other simply by pushing them against each other, they can be welded together with a high dimensional precision without requiring any massive or complex clamping fixture.

Vehicle body structure made of extruded members

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Wako, Japan

Shuichiro Iwatsuki