Mazda Motor Corporation

Yasukazu Watanabe

Kazuhiro Matsuhashi

Tamio Miyahara

Masahiro Maruyama

Akira Itoh

Shigefumi Kohno

Masatoshi Takayama

Akira Ito

Tadashi Ioka

Noritaka Sakiyama

Tomoo Taguchi

Katsumi Sakane

Yasunari Hirotani

Hidemi Aoki

Kazuhiro Ushijima

Tomonori Otsubo

Katsuaki Sasaki

Yoshihiro Konno

Naomi Mitani

A seat device of a vehicle including a substantially flat floor surface substantially extending across a full cabin space of the vehicle, front row seats, center row seats and a rear row seat disposed in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle on the floor surface, a seat storage pan extending rearward the rear row seat and downward a level of the floor surface, the front row seats being disposed with a space, the center row seats including a plurality of seats in which at least one of the seats is movable in a lateral direction of the vehicle. When the rear row seat is received in the seat storage pan, a substantially flat and continuous surface of a substantially same level as the floor surface is formed rearward the center row seats to a rear end of the cabin space with a substantially full width of the cabin space. When the center row seats are disposed offset to one side of the vehicle with regard to the lateral direction, a substantially flat and continuous surface of a substantially same level as the floor surface is formed rearward the front row seats to a rear end of the cabin space. When the center row seats are disposed to produce a space at a central portion of the vehicle in the lateral direction, a substantially flat and continuous surface of a substantially same level as the floor surface is formed rearward the front row seats to a rear end of the cabin space at a central portion of the cabin space in the lateral direction.

Seat device of a vehicle

Seat arrangement of a vehicle

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

An automotive vehicle has a rear header disposed at a rear end of the roof and above a rear seat. For example, in the event where the automotive vehicle is about to roll, the seat back of the rear seat is leaned forwards and the upper end portion of the seat back is leaned forwards, thereby forcibly repositioning the head of the rear passenger seated on the rear seat to the position remoter from the back window panel.

Apparatus for protecting a rear passenger for an automotive vehicle

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Hiroshima, Japan

Yasukazu Watanabe