Vehicle side structure of pickup truck
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorFumihiko Kishima
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Abstract
A vehicle side structure of a pickup truck includes a cabin; and a loading platform that is disposed adjacent to a rear side of the cabin in the vehicle forward-rearward direction, is configured to include a bottom plate, a pair of right and left side panels, and a tail gate, and is formed in a box shape that opens toward a vehicle upper side. Each of the right and left side panels includes a traveling wind inlet part that is disposed at an outer part of each of the right and left side panels in a vehicle width direction, opens toward a vehicle front side, and includes a first opening, a traveling wind blowing part that is disposed at an upper end part of each of the right and left side panels, opens toward the vehicle upper side, and includes a second opening, and an intermediate part.
Claims7
A vehicle side structure of a pickup truck, the vehicle side structure comprising:
- a cabin that is disposed at a middle of a vehicle in a vehicle forward-rearward direction;
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- a loading platform that is disposed adjacent to a rear side of the cabin in the vehicle forward-rearward direction, is configured to include a bottom plate formed in a rectangular flat plate shape, a pair of right and left side panels, the side panels being erected toward a vehicle upper side from both sides of the bottom plate in a vehicle width direction and extending in the vehicle forward-rearward direction, and a tail gate that is erected toward the vehicle upper side from a rear end part of the bottom plate and extends in the vehicle width direction, the loading platform being formed in a box shape that opens toward the vehicle upper side,
- wherein each of the right and left side panels includes
- a traveling wind inlet part that is disposed at an outer part of each of the right and left side panels in the vehicle width direction, and includes a first opening which opens toward a vehicle front side, and into which traveling wind flowing along an outer surface of each of the right and left side panels in the vehicle width direction flows,
- a traveling wind blowing part that is disposed at an upper end part of each of the right and left side panels, and includes a second opening which opens toward the vehicle upper side, and which from which the traveling wind flowing in from the traveling wind inlet part flows out, and
- an intermediate part including a flow passage provided between the traveling wind inlet part and the traveling wind blowing part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.