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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2004
Noboru Yoshii, Aki-gun, JP;
Yasunori Kageyama, Aki-gun, JP;
Hiroshi Sogabe, Aki-gun, JP;
Katsutoshi Nakamura, Aki-gun, JP;
Noboru Yoshii, Aki-gun, JP;
Yasunori Kageyama, Aki-gun, JP;
Hiroshi Sogabe, Aki-gun, JP;
Katsutoshi Nakamura, Aki-gun, JP;
Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima, JP;
Abstract
A structure of a cowl and its vicinities is provided which is capable of, even in a vehicle which has an open cowl structure, using the open cowl structure as a member which connects the right and left bodies of the vehicle, and at the same time, realizing a structure that is useful for protecting a pedestrian. At the end part of a cowlin the vehicle rear direction, one end of a dash upper panelis connected; its other end extends below the cowland in the vehicle front direction; from its middle part in the vehicle front-and-rear directions, a cowl cross-member lowerextends in the vehicle upper direction; at the upper-end part of the cowl cross-member lowera protrusion portionis formed; and by welding it to a cowl cross-member uppera closed-section portionis formed between them. Herein, the cowl cross-member upperis thinner than the cowl cross-member lower