Mazda Motor Corporation

Mazda Motor Company

Tomoo Taguchi

Shigefumi Kohno

Tomonori Ohtsubo

Toshinori Sakamoto

Kouji Iwasaka

Satoshi Kubota

Yasukazu Watanabe

Hirokazu Yamasaki

Keiichiro Shibata

Yoshio Fukushima

Masanori Kodaira

Hiromichi Kawamura

Seiichi Asoh

Yuzou Sato

Yukihito Itami

Tomohiro Hori

Kajuhiro Ushijima

Fumiyuki Murakami

Kou Niida

Hitoki Fukuda

Tomonori Otsubo

Katsuaki Sasaki

Yoshihiro Konno

A rear floor panel extends rearwardly from a kick-up portion formed at a rear portion of a floor panel. A lateral connecting member which constitutes part of a rear suspension connects to supporting portions to support both rear wheels. An engine is arranged below the rear floor panel and in front of the lateral connecting member. A generator is arranged below the rear floor panel and in back of the engine. Accordingly, the traveling stability of the vehicle can be improved and the yaw inertia moment of the vehicle can be decreased.

Rear vehicle body structure of vehicle

Disclosed is a vehicle rear structure, which is designed such that a pull bar () provided at a rear end of a tonneau cover () is slidingly displaced along a pair of right and left guide rails (). The right and left guide rails () are positioned parallel to each other in a rear view of the vehicle. Each of the guide rails () has an upper portion located at a position overlapping a corresponding one of a pair of right and left rear pillars () in the rear view of the vehicle and in front of the rear pillar () in a side view of the vehicle, and a lower portion located at a position overlapping the rear pillar () in the side view of the vehicle and on the inner side of the rear pillar () in the rear view of the vehicle. The vehicle rear structure of the present invention makes it possible to allow the rear end of the tonneau cover to be displaced upwardly and downwardly along the right and left guide rails in a simplified structure without disadvantages, such as deterioration in rearward visibility, due to decrease in distance between the right and left guide rails.

Vehicle rear structure

When ingress intention of a passenger who is supposed to sit on a second seat is predicted, a distance between a first seat and the second seat is expanded automatically. Accordingly, taking time for access to the second seat can be avoided, thereby decreasing necessary time for having access and improving accessibility to the second seat. When a full-open mode is selected (Yes in S); the passenger does not sit on the third-row seat (Yes in S); the passenger does not sit on the second-row seat (Yes in S); and a child seat is not installed on the second-row seat (Yes in S), a second-row seat sliding motor is driven and a first-row seat driving mechanism operates. Accordingly, forward sliding of the second-row seat starts (S), and a sliding door is driven backward to open fully.

Seat control device for vehicle

A seat arrangement for a vehicle includes a first row of seats, a second row of seats mounted behind the first row of seats in a vehicular cabin, and a third row of seats mounted behind the second row of seats in the cabin. A second row seat is slidable in the longitudinal direction, and a seat cushion of the third row seat can be pivoted about a pivotal axis in the vicinity of its front edge into the upright position. When the seat cushion of the third row seat is in the upright position and the second row seat is slid rearwardly, the seat cushion of the third row seat and the second row seat are positioned closely with each other. The second row seat can slide rearwardly without interference from the step on the floor or rear wheel housings bulging out into a cabin.

Seat arrangement for a vehicle

A center-matched double hinged door assembly for a vehicle having a continuous side aperture at each of opposite side of a vehicle body comprises a front door hinged at a rear end to the vehicle body, a rear door hinged at a front end to the vehicle body, and a door lock/unlock mechanism operative to prevent the rear door from opening prior to the front door while the front door remains closed, to allow the rear door to open while the front door remains open and to allow the rear door to close irrespective of whether the front door remains open or closed.

Center-matched double hinged door assembly for vehicles

The front portion of a roof panel has left-hand and right-hand roof opening sections, each roof opening section being wide open without a roof side rail on its transversely outer side. A movable roof member is mounted on the roof opening sections so as to be movable longitudinally through a base frame fixed to the body of a vehicle, thereby opening the roof opening sections when the movable roof member is moved in its rear position and closing it when it is moved in its front position. The base frame contains a front section to be mounted to a front header of the body, a rear section to be mounted to a front edge portion of a rear roof panel section, a middle section for connecting middle portions of the front section and the rear section, and a guide section extending rearward from a transversely outer side portion of the rear section. The base frame is fixed to the body in such a state that the portions of the base frame or the body where the alignment position is likely to deviate from its normal position are aligned with an aligning jig or the movable roof member. Further, an alignment section or member is formed each on the body side and the base frame side so as to assume a normal positional relationship.

Method for the assembly of a sun roof of an automotive vehicle

A roof panel connected to the vehicle body through at least a pair of left-hand and right-hand front pillars and a pair of left-hand and right-hand rear pillars is provided with a wide open roof panel opening enclosed by a front header, a pair of left-hand and right-hand roof side rails and a rear header. To the pair of left-hand and right-hand rear pillars and the rear header is fixed a rear window glass panel. In order to close the roof panel opening, there is provided a flexible top foldable or windable. When the roof panel opening is in a closed state, a forward end portion of the flexible top is in abutment with said front header, its left-hand and right-hand side end portions are abutted with the left-hand and right-hand roof side rails, and its rearward end portion is in abutment with the rear header. The flexible top is displaceable along the roof side rails and the rear pillars. When the roof panel opening is in an open state, the flexible top is housed or accommodated in a folded or wound state at a position rearward of the rear window glass panel and nearby its lower end portion.

Flexible top apparatus for a vehicle

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Hiroshima, Japan

Tomoo Taguchi