Mazda Motor Corporation

Yohichi Yanagi

Koji Miyamoto

Yamato Matsuda

Eiji Okada

Keiichirou Yamamoto

Atsuo Iwabuchi

Hidehiko Soda

Hiroyuki Kawai

Masanori Taguchi

Junko Nakamura

Ryoichi Hashimoto

Junko Karube

Kazuki Hikawa

A center console structure includes a columnar part erected on a vehicle interior floor surface between a driver seat and a passenger seat and extends upward to the vicinity of the cushion surfaces of the seats and an upper body that is disposed above the columnar part, extends in a front-rear direction, has an upper surface part forming a center console surface, and accommodates a shift operation mechanism, in which the upper body extends forward of the columnar part that is cantilevered and has an extension part that is bent and then rises forward and obliquely upward in the front part thereof, a surface part of the extension part close to a sitting occupant forms an outer surface continuous with the center console surface and a portion of the extension part close to the front of the vehicle is locked to a rear projecting part of an instrument panel.

Center console structure

A switch body portion attached to a center console includes a dial switch. The switch body portion is held on the side of the enter console for attachment through engaging of front engagement portions and a rear engagement portion. When an external force having a specified magnitude or greater acts on the dial switch from the rear, the engaging of the front engagement portions is released, so that the switch body portion falls off downward, rotating around the rear engagement portion. Accordingly, an impact which may occur when some object hits against the dial switch projecting upward from an upper face of the center console from the rear can be properly absorbed.

Falling-off structure of operational switch for vehicle

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Higashihiroshima, Japan

Yohichi Yanagi