Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Nishikawa Rubber Co., Ltd.

Yasuyuki Kato

Daisuke Naoi

Tomohide Sekiguchi

Kazuo Sato

Akiyoshi Kubota

Momoka Fujii

Sadayuki Asano

Shuichiro Iwatsuki

Shohei Ohji

Shuhei Hatakeyama

Hiroki Tanigawa

Masaki Shoji

Yuuji Goto

The present invention provides a weather strip which can be easily attached to a grille of an automobile without the need of a clip. The weather strip is a weather strip which seals a gap between a grille and a hood of an automobile and includes (i) an attachment wall to be attached to the grille, (ii) a sealing wall which comes in elastic contact with the hood, and (iii) an insertion section to be inserted into a through hole. The insertion section includes a rear locking portion and a front locking portion which are locked in the through hole.

Weather strip, weather strip attachment structure, and weather strip attachment method

A vehicle body front structure has: an object detection device disposed in a vehicle front end section of a vehicle to detect an object ahead of the vehicle; and a pair of bracket members which are spaced apart from each other in a vehicle width direction and which support the object detection device. Each of the pair of bracket members includes: a forwardly extending portion that extends forward from a vehicle body member; and a downwardly extending portion that extends downward from the forwardly extending portion and supports the object detection device. The vehicle body front structure further has a bracket member locking member which couples the forwardly extending portions to each other in the vehicle width direction and to which an exterior member of the vehicle is attached.

Vehicle body front structure

A vehicle body rear structure includes: an opening and closing body for opening and closing an opening defined in a vehicle body rear part, the opening and closing body having an outer panel and an inner panel located inwardly of the outer panel, the outer panel having a rear surface part facing substantially in a vehicle rearward direction; a license plate provided on a bumper member under the opening and closing body; an emblem disposed on the rear surface part and having a projecting part projecting rearward from the rear surface part outer panel; and an image capturing device installed between the rear surface part and the inner panel and configured to capture images behind the vehicle. The rear surface part has an installation hole which is located at a position lower than the projecting part and in which the image capturing device is installed.

Vehicle body rear structure

A vehicle body front structure includes: a front pillar that includes an A-pillar provided to extend in an up-down direction, an A'-pillar provided to extend in the up-down direction in the rear of the A-pillar, and a lower frame disposed between lower ends of the A-pillar and the A&#x2032;-pillar; and a bracket connected to the lower end of the A-pillar and provided to extend frontward from the lower end of the A-pillar. In the vehicle body front structure, strength of the bracket is set to be lower than strength of the A-pillar.

An automotive vehicle body structure includes a rear panel arranged in a vehicle width direction in a vehicle body rear portion, a rear cross member connected to a rear surface of the rear panel, extending along the vehicle width direction, and defining a closed cross section between the rear cross member and the rear panel, and a rear bumper beam connected to a rear section of the rear cross member and extending along the vehicle width direction. The rear cross member includes an extending portion extending along the rear panel outward in the vehicle width direction from an outer end of the rear bumper beam in the vehicle width direction.

Vehicle body structure

A vehicle upper body structure includes a roof panel, a roof arch that extends across the roof panel in a vehicle width direction and that is joined to a lower surface of the roof panel, and a roof antenna disposed on an upper surface of the roof panel. The roof arch includes a first roof arch and a second roof arch disposed in front of the first roof arch. An antenna bracket that allows the roof antenna to be mounted thereon extends frontward from a midpoint of the first roof arch in the vehicle width direction or a vicinity of the midpoint. The antenna bracket supports the roof panel, and the second roof arch is disposed so that as viewed from above the vehicle body, at least part of the second roof arch extends between right and left rear pillars.

Vehicle upper body structure

A vehicle connector that is connected through a cable to a vehicle-mounted power switchboard is attached to an attachment bracket secured to a vehicle body. The attachment bracket includes a first bracket having an attachment portion to which the vehicle connector is attached and a second bracket secured to the vehicle body so as to be positioned further to an inside of the vehicle body than the first bracket. The first bracket and the second bracket form a closed cross section. Thus, the attachment bracket having the closed cross section supports a load that is applied when a connector to be mated with the vehicle connector is inserted into or removed from the vehicle connector.

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Wako, Japan

Yasuyuki Kato