Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Structural detail
Patent
1989-03-23
1990-10-16
Song, Robert R.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Structural detail
296194, B62D 2100
Patent
active
049629611
ABSTRACT:
An automobile front body structure comprising a dashboard lower panel positioned below a front windshield and extending laterally across an automobile body structure so as to define an engine room and a passenger's compartment on respective sides thereof, a cowl box of generally elongated box-like configuration mounted atop the dashboard lower panel while extending laterally across the automobile body structure, and a generally elongated windshield support beam structure of generally closed hollow cross-section extending laterally across the automobile body structure for supporting the windshield from below. The beam structure is formed in an upper region of the cowl box. An upper portion of the cowl box has a first opening defined therein for communicating the interior of the cowl box to the outside. A bottom portion of the cowl box has a second opening defined therein opening towards the passenger's compartment and communicating with a suction port of an air conditioner. The interior of the beam structure and the second opening are communicated with each other through a connecting passage and a portion of the interior of the cowl box and the interior of the beam structure are communicated with a vent opening defined frontwardly of the beam structure.
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Ito Keizo
Shoda Mitsuyuki
Mazda Motor Corporation
Song Robert R.
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