Mazda Motor Corporation

Toshio Sakamoto

Yasunori Kageyama

Takayuki Nakamae

Nobuyuki Nakayama

Takanori Tsubaki

Masanori Minamisawa

Yoshiatsu Kuga

Hiroshi Sogabe

Soukichi Kikuchi

Shuhei Nishida

Kazuma Kondou

Susumu Kuroda

Tsugio Fukube

Naoaki Yamamoto

Takahiro Tanaka

Tetsuo Nagata

Hiroki Ohira

Yusaku Yamaguchi

Kazuto Ishii

Michihisa Iwamoto

Eiji Yoshimura

Toshiaki Wakabayashi

Mikado Kawasaki

Yasuyuki Emi

Hiroyuki Nishi

Kazuma Kondo

Hiroki Fujii

Masayuki Sato

Toshio Takata

A vehicle front body structure includes a duct member that surrounds a radiator on an inner side in a vehicle width direction of a right and left pair of crash cans. The duct member is a member that completely surrounds the radiator and includes side duct sections and an upper duct section. The side duct sections and the upper duct section are connected such that, when the duct member receives a specified load from a bumper member of a body during a frontal collision, the side duct sections and the upper duct section are disengaged from each other in the engagement sections.

Vehicle front body structure

It is intended to provide a vehicle body lower structure capable of preventing a backflow component from flowing outside the vehicle from a rear wheel housing at the shortest distance. The vehicle body lower structure of a vehicle comprising a rear wheel housingand a mud guardintegrally attached to an inner surface of a rear portion of the rear wheel housingwherein the mud guardhas a plate-shaped shielding portionextending from a vehicle width directional inner side of a rear edge of the rear wheel housingtoward a front side of the vehicle, and wherein the shielding portionhas an up-down directional length extending from a bottom portion of the mud guardto a position above at least a tail pipewhose outlet portionis oriented toward a rear surface of a vehicle body adjacent thereto.

Vehicle body lower structure of vehicle

In a front air-flow streamlining structure of an automotive vehicle comprising a cover front portion of an under cover of a vehicle front portion and an air dam provided at a front bumper, a deflector is provided between the air dam and a front wheel house to be spaced rearward apart from the air dam, to project downward, and to extend in a vehicle width direction, an outward end portion, in the vehicle width direction, of the air dam is provided substantially continuously to the deflector, a pocket portion enclosed by the cover front portion, the air dam, and the deflector is provided such that an inward side, in the vehicle width direction, thereof opens, and a traveling-air intake portion which opens so as to take in traveling air toward the pocket portion is provided at the air dam.

Front air-flow streamlining structure of automotive vehicle

An impact absorption member is provided behind a bumper face, a lower stiffener is provided below this member and projects forward to sweep a leg portion of an object hitting against a front potion of a vehicle, and headlamp units are provided at both side portions of the bumper face. A lamp housing of the headlamp unit is supported at a vehicle-body member located in back of the lamp housing, a load absorption portion provided on the inside of and rearward from an edge of the bumper face to absorb an impact load is provided integrally at the lamp housing, and a load transmission portion to transmit the impact load inputted to the bumper face to the load absorption portion is provided at the bumper face.

Front structure of vehicle

A front structure of an automotive vehicle, comprising a shroud having a shroud upper, shroud lower, and a pair of shroud sides, a bumper face, and a plate member, a front end of which extends to a position near a back face of the bumper face and a rear end of which is attached to the shroud lower, wherein protruding portions are provided at both-side ends of the plate member so as to protrude outward respectively in a vehicle width direction from both-side ends of the shroud lower, and projecting portions are provided at the protruding portions so as to project rearward respectively along side end portions of the shroud lower. Accordingly, the prevention of pedestrian dragging against the vehicle frontal oblique crush can be improved.

Front structure of automotive vehicle

Disclosed is a vehicle front structure, which comprises a synthetic resin shroudformed to support a heat exchanger and mounted to a vehicle body in a front of an engine compartment, a bumper fascia disposed in a front end of the vehicle body, a plate memberwhich has a front end located adjacent to a rear surface of the bumper fascia and a rear end attached to a lower shroud section, and a connection memberwhich connects a lower end region of a lateral surface of a side shroud sectionto a non-abutted portionformed in a flangeof a bumper reinforcement. The vehicle front structure of the present invention can suppress displacement of the shroud during a frontal impact with a pedestrian or an obstacle such as a curb.

Vehicle front structure

A front end structure for a vehicle comprises: a front bumper face; a shroud upper disposed to the rear of the front bumper face; a bumper beam disposed below the shroud upper to span the front ends of right and left front side frames; a center stay made of metal and spanning the shroud upper and the bumper beam; and a front grille supported at the upper side to the shroud upper and supported at the lower side to the front bumper face, the front grille is inclined so that the lower side is located frontwardly of the upper side, and the center stay is integrally provided with a grille support having a root end connected to the center stay and an abutment supporting part extending from the root end towards the bottom of the front grille to support the front grille from below. Alternatively, a front end structure for a vehicle comprises: a front bumper face; a shroud disposed to the rear of the front bumper face and including at least an upper part and right and left side parts; a front grille supported at the upper side to the shroud, supported at the lower side to the front bumper face and inclined so that the lower side is located frontwardly of the upper side; and a front grille support member including right and left mounting parts mounted to the right and left side parts of the shroud, respectively, and a shelf connecting the right and left mounting parts, formed to protrude frontward at a spanning part thereof connecting the right and left mounting parts and supporting the front grille from below.

Vehicle front end structure

Disclosed is a bumper structure adapted to be attached to a front end of a vehicle, which is capable of preventing a fine member from being bent downward by its own weight after integrally forming a bumper body and a grill portion together, and avoiding a problem about deterioration in appearance of the grill portion which would otherwise be caused by the fin support remaining within the grill portion, so as to provide drastically enhanced appearance of the grill portion. A fin support () is formed to allow an distal end thereof to extend toward an open zone on the upper side of an opening (X), and folded about a thin-wall portion () in such a manner as to be engaged with an engagement pin (, - - - ,) at an edge of the opening (X) to support the fin member (). After resin is cooled, thin-wall portion () is cut off to remove the fin support () from the inside of the opening (X).

Bumper structure for vehicle

Disclosed is a front structure of a vehicle, which comprises a pair of right and left front side frames, a shroud installed between respective front ends of the side frames, a pair of right and left headlamps each arranged on a lateral side of a corresponding one of laterally opposite sidewalls of the shroud and provided with a headlamp housing serving as an outer shell thereof, and a hood panel adapted to cover above the shroud when it is in a fully closed position. In this front structure, each of the headlamp housings has a contact portion located below a corresponding one of opposite front lateral ends of the hood panel in the fully closed position, and each of the sidewalls of the shroud has an upper region provided with a catch portion which is disposed above and in opposed relation to the contact portion of a corresponding one of the headlamp housings and adapted to come into contact with the contact portion when the headlamp housing is applied with an eternal impact force, so as to restrict an upward movement of the headlamp.

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Hiroshima, Japan

Toshio Sakamoto