Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Tadashi Hirakawa

Seiichi Kato

Kanji Kaneko

Kazuhiro Sakai

Fumiharu Ochiai

Fumitoshi Yasuhara

Satoru Noguchi

Takuro Nishida

Tamaki Mikami

Takafumi Takayama

A vehicle body rear structure includes: left and right rear side frames extending in a fore-and-aft direction in a rear part of a vehicle; a rear subframe attached to the rear side frames; left and right rear wheels supported by the rear subframe via respective suspensions; and a driving source mounted to the rear subframe. The driving source is arranged such that a center of gravity thereof is positioned more rearward than a rotation axis of the rear wheels. The rear subframe includes left and right rear subframe longitudinal members extending in the fore-and-aft direction and a rear subframe cross member extending laterally and joined to the rear subframe longitudinal members. The rear subframe cross member includes a protrusion that protrudes rearward at a laterally central part thereof. A rear end of the protrusion is positioned more rearward than a rear end of the driving source.

Vehicle body rear structure

A vehicle body rear structure includes: a pair of left and right rear side frames extending in a fore-and-aft direction in a rear part of a vehicle; a rear subframe attached to the rear side frames; and a pair of left and right shock-absorbing structures respectively provided at rear ends of the rear side frames and extending rearward. The rear subframe includes a pair of left and right rear subframe longitudinal members extending in the fore-and-aft direction and a rear subframe cross member extending laterally and joined to the left and right rear subframe longitudinal members. The rear subframe cross member includes a protrusion that protrudes rearward in a laterally central part thereof. A rear end of the protrusion is positioned more rearward than the rear ends of the rear side frames and more forward than rear ends of the shock-absorbing structures.

A rear side doordesigned to open and close an opening formed in a bodyincludes an inner paneland a door beamThe door beamis mounted on an inner panelthrough a bracketplaced between the door beamand the inner paneland a patch memberis disposed on a tip partA of the door beamat a position overlapping the tip partA of the door beamin the vehicle widthwise direction.

Door structure for vehicle

A side airbag apparatus deployed between a vehicle compartment sidewall and a vehicle occupant. The airbag has an upper chamber, a lower chamber, and a middle chamber formed between the upper and lower chambers. The middle chamber is deployed prior to the timing of deployment of the upper and lower chambers.

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Wako, Japan

Tadashi Hirakawa