Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Takamitsu Kasai

Yusuke Nakamura

Takashi Nitta

Takayuki Shimizu

Shungo Chino

Nobumoto Sekiguchi

Hideki Kajiwara

Junji Sugimoto

Ryo Takabu

Tatsuya Miyamoto

Takuma Mashiko

A vehicle body rear structure includes: a rear wheel house; a rear cross member located on a vehicle width direction inner side of a lower portion of the rear wheel house and extending in a vehicle width direction; a pillar extending upward from an upper portion of the rear wheel house; a wheel house reinforcing member extending along the rear wheel house and connecting between the rear cross member and the pillar; a retractor functioning as a seat belt winding device; and a bracket configured to fix the retractor to a vehicle body. The bracket has one end portion connected to the wheel house reinforcing member. The bracket has another portion extending from the one end portion in the vehicle forward direction or in the vehicle rearward direction and connected to the rear wheel house.

Vehicle body rear structure

A seat belt deviceincludes a second buckleconnected to a vehicleside by a second webbing, and a tubular buckle hoderwhich is able to hold the second bucklein a state in which the second buckleis accommodated therein. A tongueis inserted into the second buckle. In addition, the buckle holderis provided on an anchorso as to be rotatable in vehicle forward and rearward directions. Furthermore, a length dimension Lof the second webbingis set such that the second bucklecan be pulled out from the buckle holder

Seat belt device

In a structure of a pillar garnish for an automobile, a leg is provided to protrude toward a webbing from a lower edge of a step formed at a lower end of one of an upper pillar garnish and a lower pillar garnish which are formed by dividing a pillar garnish section, and webbing guide is provided at a tip end of the leg. Therefore, even if a sink mark is created on a surface of the step of the upper pillar garnish corresponding to the position of the leg, the sink mark is covered with an upper end of the lower pillar garnish and thus invisible from the side of a vehicle compartment, so that it is possible to prevent the degradation of the appearance due to the creation of the sink mark. Moreover, a back of the lower pillar garnish is superposed on a surface of the step formed on the upper pillar garnish. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the generation of a difference in level at a joint between both of the pillar garnishes to enhance the appearance.

Structure of pillar garnish for automobile

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Wako, Japan

Takamitsu Kasai