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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2000
Filed:
Jan. 29, 1998
Makoto Yamauchi, Hiroshima, JP;
Katsumi Ejima, Hiroshima-ken, JP;
Shuichi Nakagami, Higashihiroshima, JP;
Toshimitsu Kadoya, Hiroshima, JP;
Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima-ken, JP;
Abstract
The invention provides a body structure for vehicles which is capable of enhancing the passenger-protecting performance without much increasing the vehicle weight by enhancing the stiffness around the vehicle interior with high efficiency. A body roof is equipped with a closed-in-cross-section roof reinforcement extending widthwise of the vehicle body along a roof panel, right-and-left end portions of the roof reinforcement being coupled to upper end portions of a right-and-left pair of closed-in-cross-section center pillars extending in upper-and-lower direction in side portions of the vehicle body, respectively. Lower end portions of the center pillars are coupled to a pair of closed-in-cross-section side sills which extend longitudinally of the vehicle body to support right-and-left side edge portions of a floor panel, respectively, so that the roof reinforcement, the right-and-left center pillars and the right-and-left side sills form a continuous closed cross section with which an upper portion and right-and-left side portions of the vehicle interior, as viewed from the front of the vehicle, are covered.