Mazda Motor Corporation

Teruo Hashimoto

Isao Hirashima

Hiroshi Minamoto

Tadashi Ioka

Katsumi Sakane

Yoshio Fukushima

Tetsuya Kameshima

Toshifumi Suzuki

Tetsuro Murakami

Yoshinori Murakami

Takashi Masuhara

A front body construction of a motor vehicle includes a lower dash panel for separating an engine compartment and a cabin and a cowl portion provided on the lower dash panel such that a lower end of a windshield is supported at an upper portion of the cowl portion. The cowl portion includes an upper dash panel attached to an upper end portion of the lower dash panel so as to form a bottom wall of the cowl portion and a front cowl panel attached to an upper face of the upper dash panel so as to form a front wall of the cowl portion. The front cowl panel has, in a lateral direction of a vehicle body, opposite sides and a central portion such that space for an auxiliary unit is provided not only forwards of the front cowl panel in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle body, but also on at least one of the opposite sides of the front cowl panel. At least one of the opposite sides of the front cowl panel is disposed rearwards of the central portion of the front cowl panel in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle body, and the lower end of the front cowl panel is disposed, on at least one of the opposite sides of the front cowl panel, at a location identical with that of or rearwards of an upper end of the lower dash panel in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle body.

Cowl and dash panel assembly for a front body construction of a motor

A vehicular seating apparatus includes an assistant driver's seat mounted in the interior of a driver cabin of a vehicle and above a service hole on an engine deck raised at a central part of a floor located in the proximity of a driver's seat. The apparatus includes a transverse displacement mechanism for displacing the assistant driver's seat in the transverse direction and a transverse leap-up mechanism for upwardly turning the assistant driver's seat about one end of a seat cushion of the assistant driver's seat located at the side of the driver's seat. A seat frame is provided with a longitudinal slide mechanism for slidably displacing the assistant driver's seat in the longitudinal direction. The apparatus assures that a driver can walk by the side of the assistant driver's seat to reach the rear part of a driver cabin while maintaining good engine service performance. Further, the driver can enjoy excellent driving comfort by virtue of various operations for displacement.

Vehicular seating apparatus

A cowl box of a vehicle in which a duct passagae through which an air duct of an air conditioner extends in a vertical direction is arranged to support a front windshield in such a fashion that the cowl box and the air duct are superposed as viewed in a transverse direction of a car body. According to this feature, the cowl box can be disposed in an instrument panel without narrowing the width of the cowl box and without enlarging the instrument panel.

Construction of cowl box of vehicle

Growing community of inventors

Higashihiroshima, Japan

Teruo Hashimoto