Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Sumitomo Riko Company Limited

Takeshi Kuniya

Takayoshi Yasuda

Naoki Furumachi

A torque rod connects a drive unit and a suspension member. The suspension member has a hollow structure and having a front wall opening formed in a front wall. A rear end of the torque rod is coupled to the suspension member in an interior space of the suspension member, and a front end of the torque rod is coupled to the drive unit via a bracket. A gap between the front wall opening and an opening-corresponding portion of the torque rod that corresponds to the front wall opening is 3 mm or less on a left side and/or a right side of the opening-corresponding portion.

Vehicle front structure

A fluid-filled vibration damping device including: a first mounting member; a second mounting member; a main rubber elastic body elastically connecting the first and second mounting members; a pressure-receiving chamber whose wall is partially constituted by the main rubber elastic body; an equilibrium chamber whose wall is partially constituted by a flexible film, the pressure-receiving chamber and equilibrium chamber being filled with a non-compressible fluid; and an orifice passage which connects the pressure-receiving chamber and the equilibrium chamber to each other. A turbulence generating part is formed in a middle portion of the orifice passage in a length direction causing turbulence to be generated depending on a flow rate of a flowing fluid.

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Takeshi Kuniya