Mazda Motor Corporation

Yuzou Sato

Masanori Kodaira

Tomohiro Hori

Tomoo Taguchi

Kou Niida

A tonneau cover device comprises a tonneau cover and guide rails. A front end of the tonneau cover is pivotally supported at the vehicle. The tonneau cover comprises plural board members provided in a longitudinal direction and jointly connected to each other. The board member is supported by the guide rails to move vertically. A change of a longitudinal distance between a support pin portion of the board member at the guide rail and a pivot axis portion of the board member when the board member moves upward along the guide rails is absorbed by the joint connections of the tonneau cover. Accordingly, the tonneau cover can be opened widely and the tonneau cover can allow even large baggage to be carried in or out of the baggage compartment smoothly.

Tonneau cover device

Disclosed is a vehicle rear structure, which is designed such that a pull bar () provided at a rear end of a tonneau cover () is slidingly displaced along a pair of right and left guide rails (). The right and left guide rails () are positioned parallel to each other in a rear view of the vehicle. Each of the guide rails () has an upper portion located at a position overlapping a corresponding one of a pair of right and left rear pillars () in the rear view of the vehicle and in front of the rear pillar () in a side view of the vehicle, and a lower portion located at a position overlapping the rear pillar () in the side view of the vehicle and on the inner side of the rear pillar () in the rear view of the vehicle. The vehicle rear structure of the present invention makes it possible to allow the rear end of the tonneau cover to be displaced upwardly and downwardly along the right and left guide rails in a simplified structure without disadvantages, such as deterioration in rearward visibility, due to decrease in distance between the right and left guide rails.

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Hiroshima, Japan

Yuzou Sato