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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2013
Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima, JP;
Masafumi Shinoda, Hiroshima, JP;
Masakazu Tsuji, Higashi-Hiroshima, JP;
Toshiharu Ikeda, Hiroshima, JP;
Yoshikazu Nishimura, Hiroshima, JP;
MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION, Hiroshima, JP;
Abstract
A structure is configured such that a viewer hardly feels strangeness of color tone or texture even when paint mist is attached to a center pillarduring coating of a body outer plate. A panel surface of an outer panelof the center pillarhas a protrusion in a middle in the vehicle vertical direction such that at least part of a lower portion of the panel surface projects toward the outside of the vehicle body relative to an upper portion of the panel surface. A start end HL of the protrusion is located at substantially an identical height to a door body upper edge line UL in at least a center portion in a pillar width of the pillar outer panel.