UPPER BODY STRUCTURE OF AUTOMOBILE

Japanese Patent JP3697557

B2

PURPOSE: To provide the upper body structure of an automobile which can increase the stiffness of its body, the stiffness of a body roof section in particular, and thereby can prevent a sun roof unit provided for the body roof section from sinking down.
CONSTITUTION: A roof side rail 4 where a roof side rail inner panel 41 and a roof side rail outer panel 42 are joined and formed into a closed section in cross section, is provided with a horizontal section 430 and a vertical surface 430, the lower surface of the first horizontal section 51 for the bottom wall section of a mounting bracket 5 is joined with the horizontal surface 420 of the roof side rail 4, and the lower surface of an inclined wall section 52 is joined with the vertical surface 430. The body outward end of the roof reinforcing bottom surface section 31 of a roof reinforcement 3 is made to coincide therewith so as to be fixed to the second horizontal section 53 of the mounting bracket 5.

Yoshii Noboru

JP27570294A

September 21, 2005

October 15, 1994

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Mazda Corporation Inc

B60J7/00; B62D25/06; (IPC1-7): B62D25/06; B60J7/00

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Hiroshi Maeda
Hiroshi Koyama
Hiroshi Takeuchi
Takahisa Shimada
Yuji Takeuchi
Katsumi Imae
Atsushi Fujita
Kazunari Ninomiya
Tomoo Harada
Iseki Katsumori
Yoneda Keikei
Seki Kei
Yasuya Sugiura

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