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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2020
Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima, JP;
Yusuke Desaki, Hiroshima, JP;
Makoto Morimoto, Hiroshima, JP;
Shuji Muraoka, Iwakuni, JP;
Tomomi Nishimori, Hiroshima, JP;
MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION, Hiroshima, JP;
Abstract
An upper vehicle-body structure including: a pair of left and right roof side rails; strikers to which upper portions of rear doors are engaged; a second roof reinforcement that couples the roof side rails to each other at substantially same locations as the strikers; striker mounting members on which the strikers are mounted; and reinforcement members that overlap with the roof side rails from vehicle-width-direction outer sides at substantially same locations as the striker mounting members, in which the reinforcement members each have a lower end located on a vehicle upper side than a joining location between each of the striker mounting members and each of the roof side rails and are joined to the roof side rails overlapping with the reinforcement members in a vehicle up-down direction.