Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho

Toyoda Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyoto Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Tsutomu Shimizu

Minoru Tanaka

Hideki Hamada

A structure of a side portion of a vehicle body having a side outer panel in which a side sill outer member and a pillar outer member are integrally formed. A first enclosed cross-sectional member is formed by a connecting of a side sill inner member and a side sill reinforcing member. Further, the first enclosed cross-sectional member has first connecting members which are formed by a connecting of the side sill reinforcing member and the side sill inner member. A second enclosed cross-sectional member is formed by a connecting of the side sill outer member and the side sill reinforcing member. Moreover, the second enclosed cross-sectional member has second connecting members which are formed by a connecting of the side sill outer member and the side sill reinforcing member. The second connecting members are located outwardly of the first connecting members in the transverse direction of the vehicle body and are apart from the first connecting members. Therefore, a difference between an amount by which the pillar outer member swells outward in the transverse direction of the vehicle body and the drawing depth of the side sill outer member can be made larger.

Structure of side portion of vehicle body

A three-point type seatbelt system includes a pivotal anchor plate having one end thereof pivotally connected to a side portion in the upper part of a vehicle body by a mounting bolt and the other end thereof provided with an engagement device for disengageably connecting a three-point type seatbelt which has one end thereof provided with an engagement member disengageably fitted to the engagement device and the other end thereof secured to a lower portion of the vehicle body. The system further includes a cam plate clamped between the anchor plate and the vehicle body, retaining or stopper means, such as a pawl, for preventing the cam plate from pivoting about the mounting bolt; and a leaf spring having one end thereof secured to the anchor plate and the other end thereof selectively engaging with engagement projections formed on the cam plate. When the anchor plate is pivoted about the mounting bolt to two positions, that is, an operative position and a housed position, the second end of the leaf spring which pivots together with the anchor plate selectively engages with the engagement projections of the cam plate.

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Aichi, Japan

Tsutomu Shimizu