An exhaust passage includes first (not visible, behind 53 and 7) and second (8) purifying devices, and a plurality of independent passages (51). The first and second purifying device are arranged in this order in a flow direction of exhaust gas at a height lower than exhaust port opening ends. The…
A battery module includes a plurality of cells and a fixing portion that fixes each of the plural cells. With support rigidity k of the fixing portion and mass m of the cell, k/m of two or more sets of the cell and the fixing portion is reference k/m. When a value of tan δ as a loss factor of the…
[Task] To provide a vehicle drive system capable of allowing a driver to recognize an operation state from vibration of a motor in a vehicle that uses the motor as a traveling drive source.[Solution] The vehicle drive system includes a motor that has a stator and a rotor and drives a drive wheel of…
[Problem] To improve convenience of a vehicle front part structure including a front trunk. [0002] [Means for Solution] A vehicle includes a front trunk 12, a glove box 11, and a communication portion 13. The front trunk 12 is disposed at a front part of the vehicle and has a housing space 12a can…
[Task] To provide a vehicle drive system that includes a motor capable of suppressing demagnetization of a permanent magnet section.[Solution] A vehicle drive system 5 includes a motor 2 that has a cylindrical stator 17 and a cylindrical rotor 19 provided in the stator 17 to be coaxially rotatable…
A protection member arranged below a frame member so as to face an onboard member from an outward side, in a vehicle width direction, thereof and a support member fixed to a lower face of the frame member so as to support the protection member are provided. The support member comprises a bottom…
A first battery provided behind seatbacks of rear seats and a second battery provided between the rear seats are arranged in a T-letter shape in a plan view, right-and-left both end portions of the first battery are fixed to a baggage-compartment part of a floor, a front end portion of the second…
An attaching member (3) comprises a first member (4) including an engaging portion (43) and a first engaging portion (42) to engage with a first frame portions (21) from one side of a second direction and a second member (5) including an engaged portion (54) and a second engaging portion (53) to…
[Abstract][Problem] A vehicle is provided that can secure deployment stability of a knee airbag while intending to achieve compact formation and an improvement in flexibility of layout design by disposing the knee airbag in a lower portion of a storage box.[Means for Solution] A vehicle includes a…
A terminal structure includes mutually adjacent first and second terminals, each having a connecting part for electric connection to an external apparatus, and a case accommodating the terminals and having a tool insertion opening. The connecting parts have a flat connecting surface. When first and…
The battery cell 1 includes: a pouch 10; plural current collectors 31 stacked in a stacking direction and projecting to the outside of the pouch through an opening 12 of the pouch; a first resin 51 sealing the opening of the pouch and welded to the current collector at a position between the…
Discloses is a method of controlling a four-wheel drive vehicle equipped with a torque distribution device capable of changing a torque distribution amount for secondary driven wheels according to an input current to be applied thereto. This method comprises the steps of: applying, to the torque…
Disclosed is a heat-insulating structure which can be used, for example, to reduce the cooling loss of an engine. The heat-insulating structure includes a hollow particle layer made of a lot of hollow particles densely packed on a surface of a metallic base material. The hollow particle layer is…
A supercharged engine has a geometric compression ratio to 16 or more and is designed to perform a compression self-ignition combustion under an air-fuel ratio leaner than a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio at least in a low engine speed range. On a lower engine load side than a given engine load…
An engine is designed to allow a compression self-ignition combustion under an air-fuel ratio leaner than a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio to be performed at least in a partial-load range of the engine. Under a condition that an engine speed varies at a same load in an engine operating region of the…
A seat for a passenger (3) comprises reinforcing structure bodies (9,29) reinforcing seatbacks (6,7), connection support portions (14,42) connecting the reinforcing structure bodies (9,29) to a vehicle-body wall portion (4) so as to support the reinforcing structure bodies (9,29) at the…
A seat device for a vehicle comprises a seat for a passenger (3) including seatbacks (6,7) to support a passenger's back portion, reinforcing structure bodies (8,31) provided inside the seatbacks along an outer periphery of the seatbacks, headrests (6a,7a) provided at upper portions of the…
A roof member RO comprises a front roof 4 and a rear roof 5 which are connected to each other, at least one of which is made of a board-shaped hard roof member. A grip 82 (i.e., an operational member) to be gripped by a passenger is provided at a specified position of the front roof 4 so as to…
Part of a front side frame (3A,3B) is configured to be deformed so as to bend outwardly, in a vehicle width direction, by a collision load in a vehicle frontal collision. A sub frame (7) provided at a lower portion of a front vehicle body is joined to the front side frame (3) via a reinforcement…
Provided is a spark-ignition internal combustion engine capable of ensuring engine output power while setting a geometric compression ratio of an engine body to a high value. In the spark-ignition internal combustion engine, each of a clearance between a top surface (3a) of a piston (3) located at…
A combustion timing prediction method for a compression self-ignition internal combustion engine includes the steps of: specifying types of a plurality of hydrocarbon components contained in a hydrocarbon fuel and proportions of the respective types in the hydrocarbon fuel; calculating, on the…
There are provided a seatback 30 supporting backs of plural passengers seated on a bench type of seat cushion 20, a headrest 92 provided at an upper portion of a first portion 30a of the seatback 30 and supporting a head of the passenger seated in front of the first portion 30a, a…
A rear floor panel 90 extends rearwardly from a kick-up portion 58a formed at a rear portion of a floor panel 58. A lateral connecting member 96c which constitutes part of a rear suspension 96 connects to supporting portions to support both rear wheels 98, 100. An engine 10 is arranged below the…
An oil-pressure output device (electric pump unit 21 ) is arranged on an outer wall face of an automatic transmission 1 which is positioned on an opposite side to an engine 2 (left side of a vehicle). An arrangement position of the oil-pressure output device is out of a movable range of one of the…
A driving position adjusting apparatus for a vehicle comprises a driver's seat provided on a floor panel 9 of a vehicle compartment, an operational pedal, such as an accelerator pedal 4, which is operated by a driver seated in the driver's seat, an incline-face portion Kt which is provided on the…
There is provided, in one aspect of the present description, an internal combustion engine system. In one example, the system comprises a controller configured to control an intake valve closing timing varying mechanism to vary a closing timing of the intake valve to regulate air charged in a…
One example method for an engine having an automatic stopping function in which the engine is automatically stopped when a predetermined engine stopping condition is satisfied, and then the engine is automatically restarted when a predetermined engine restarting condition is satisfied, includes the…
A front body structure of a vehicle comprises a pair of front side frames 3, a bumper reinforcement 4, a bumper face 5, a leg-part sweeping-away member 6 which is provided below the bumper reinforcement 4 and extends in a vehicle width direction, a front end of which is positioned in front of the…
A seat structure of a vehicle, comprising a seatback frame 15 which is provided on a vehicle-inside of a seatback 8 which is provided at a rear portion of a seat cushion 7 and supports a back of a passenger X, a side frame 17 which extends vertically beside the seatback frame 15, and a pad member…
An operational pedal support structure of an automotive vehicle comprises a fixed pedal support member (17) on the side of a dash panel (3), a swing pedal support member (19), a pedal body (12) supported at the swing pedal support member (19) via a first pivotal axis (28), a downward-move…