Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Hitachi Astemo Ltd.

Toyoto Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Suburu Corporation

Toshiba Mitsubishi-electric Industrial Systems Corporation

Tmeic Corporation

Yasuaki Matsumoto

Hiroshi Ogino

Akinobu Ando

Ryoji Miyatake

Takahiro Ota

Hironori Kawaguchi

Hideaki Hatakenaka

Michio Kataoka

Susumu Yodono

Yasuhiro Maruyama

A support structure for a vehicle includes: a body portion (); a damper attachment portion (); a tie-rod attachment portion (); and a lower arm attachment portion (). The vehicle supporting structure () has a first rib () that connects the damper attachment portion () with the tie-rod attachment portion (), a second rib () that connects the tie-rod attachment portion () and the lower arm attachment portion (), and a third rib () that connects the first rib with the second rib. The first rib is inclined to have a height that gradually decreases from the damper attachment portion toward the tie-rod attachment portion, forming a first inclined portion () and a first thinned portion (). The third rib is inclined to have a height that gradually decreases from the second rib toward the first rib, forming a second inclined portion () and a second thinned portion ().

Support structure for vehicle

A pedal supporting structure for a vehicle includes a pedal bracket secured to a dash board, a pedal shaft for swingably supporting a pedal arm, a pin member for mounting the pedal shaft on the pedal bracket and a separation member secured to a support beam. An arm section of the separation member has a guide slot capable of a relative displacement of a pin member inserted to the pedal shaft and contacting the slanted surface. The arm section of the separation member has a slanted surface at the middle thereof. When an external force larger than a specified value is applied to a front part of the vehicle, due to the relative displacement between the pedal bracket and the separation member, the pin member comes out of the pedal shaft and as a result the pedal arm is separated from the pedal shaft.

Pedal supporting structure

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