Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki

Yuji Nakane

Hiroshi Kato

Osamu Shimasaki

Masatoshi Hata

Takaaki Onodera

Yasuyuki Kumazawa

Hiroshi Amano

Shohei Hashiguchi

Tetsuhiko Fukanuma

Yusuke Kinoshita

Kazuhiro Kuroki

Yasushi Kato

Yumin Hishinuma

Toshikatsu Satou

Tomoyuki Miyoshi

A vehicle rear section structure includes: left and right rear side members disposed along a front-rear direction at width direction sides of a rear floor pan; a rear suspension member extending along the vehicle front-rear direction, and attached to front portions of left and right rear side members; a load bearing section projecting upwardly from the rear suspension member; left and right reinforcement members extending along the vehicle front-rear direction, and disposed at a vehicle width direction inner side of rear portions of the left and right rear side members and at a vehicle rear side of the rear suspension member, a rear end portion of the reinforcement member partially overlapping a rear bumper reinforcement in a vehicle front-rear direction view; and a rear cross member linking the left and right rear side members together and partially overlapping the load bearing section in the vehicle front-rear direction view.

Vehicle rear section structure

A vehicle rear section structure includes: left and right rear side members disposed along a front-rear direction at both width direction sides of a rear floor pan; a rear suspension member that includes left and right side sections disposed along the front-rear direction, both front-rear end portions thereof being attached to respective front portions of the rear side members; and left and right reinforcement members extending along the front-rear direction, and being disposed at a width direction inner side of rear portions of the side members and at a rear side of the rear suspension member, each including a straight ridgeline section extending along the front-rear direction from a front end portion across to a rear end portion of the reinforcement member, at least part of the respective front end portion of the reinforcement member overlapping the respective side section of the rear suspension member in a front-rear direction view.

An electric compressor is installed in a vehicle and includes a shell. The electric compressor includes an inverter, a cover, and a conductive component. The cover covers the shell and the inverter. The conductive component is electrically connected to the inverter and arranged outside the cover. The cover includes an outer guide surface inclined relative to a forward direction of the vehicle. The outer guide surface has a normal including a forward component directed in the forward direction. The outer guide surface is arranged closer to an outer side of the vehicle than the conductive component.

Electric compressor

In a structure for absorbing energy in an upper portion of a motor vehicle body, an energy absorbing body is disposed between a roof side rail and a roof lining. The energy absorbing body is a resin-made rib member having three longitudinal ribs and transverse ribs that are more in number than the longitudinal ribs. The three longitudinal ribs are formed so as to compensate for a reduced amount of displacement that is allowed for a longitudinal rib for a purpose of energy absorption in a section of the energy absorbing body taken on an imaginary plane extending along at least one of the transverse ribs, by varying at least one of a pitch between two longitudinal ribs provided adjacent to each other in the section, an angle formed by each longitudinal rib with respect to an imaginary horizontal plane in the section, and a thickness of each longitudinal rib.

Impact energy absorbing structure in upper portion of motor vehicle body

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Okazaki, Japan

Yuji Nakane