Nissan Motor Company Limited

Nissan North America, Inc.

Yasuo Yotsunaga

Daisuke Oiki

Nobuhiro Iwai

Kyle Happy

Kathryn Templeton

Kazumi Hisajima

Shunsuke Ehara

Kunji Nagae

Takuji Kugaya

Takahide Ishida

Tarou Ikeda

Hotaka Ashiya

Masaru Tsuruta

Tomoaki Matsuoka

Norimasa Mizutani

Teruaki Aoki

Sylvain David

Sylvan David

A support panel adjacent to the windshield opening has an upper surface and a lower surface with a first shaft opening. A wiper drive mechanism is supported to the vehicle body structure and extends along the lower surface of the support panel. The wiper drive mechanism includes a shaft housing and a wiper shaft pivotally supported within the shaft housing. A water diverting panel at least partially covers the wiper drive mechanism and is attached thereto and has a cylindrically shaped portion extending upward therefrom. The cylindrically shaped portion defines a second shaft opening with the shaft housing and wiper shaft extending upward through the second shaft opening and further extending upward through the first shaft opening. A filter member is mounted to the cylindrically shaped portion above the water diverting panel and below the support panel encircling the shaft housing.

Vehicle windshield wiper assembly

A bumper attachment structure includes a flange of a bumper fascia provided with a guide portion protruding therefrom and a flange of a fender panel having an insertion hole into which the guide portion can be inserted. The bumper attachment structure also includes an attachment bracket having a groove in which the guide portion can be housed and an insertion fitting portion in which a tip portion of the attachment bracket can fit.

Bumper attachment structure

A bumper absorber () has a squared U-shaped cross section formed of: a vertical face () extending in a top-bottom direction and a vehicle width direction, and a top face () and a bottom face () respectively extending rearward from a top end and a bottom end of the vertical face (). The bumper absorber () is configured such that the top face () and the bottom face () thereof are supported by the bumper reinforcement () via multiple attachment members (to), and an interval between the attachment members adjacent to each other in the vehicle width direction is set to decrease from end portions () in the vehicle width direction toward a central portion () in the vehicle width direction.

Vehicle bumper

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yasuo Yotsunaga