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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2022
Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima, JP;
Takuma Inami, Hiroshima, JP;
Nobuyuki Nakayama, Hiroshima, JP;
Hiroyuki Baba, Hiroshima, JP;
Takashi Hirakawa, Hiroshima, JP;
Hideaki Hoshuyama, Hiroshima, JP;
Tsuneki Shimanaka, Hiroshima, JP;
MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION, Hiroshima, JP;
Abstract
To sufficiently improve the distortion stiffness of a vehicle body in a case in which no floor tunnel largely bulging upward from a floor panel is provided. A vehicle-body structure includes a floor panel constituting a floor of an occupant space including a seat on which a passenger is to sit, a cross member provided at a rear portion of the floor panel and extending in a vehicle width direction, a center frame disposed to be higher than and away from the floor panel at a vehicle-width-direction central portion of the occupant space and extending in a vehicle front-rear direction, and a connecting member connecting the cross member and a rear portion of the center frame.