Vehicle body side part structure
AssigneeMazda Motor Corporation
InventorsMasafumi Shinoda, Masakazu Tsuji, Toshiharu Ikeda, Yoshikazu Nishimura
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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 pillar 3 during coating of a body outer plate. A panel surface of an outer panel 35 of the center pillar 3 has 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.
Claims7
A side structure of a vehicle body, the side structure comprising:
- a center pillar extending in a vehicle vertical direction and separating, in a vehicle longitudinal direction, an entrance opening that is covered and uncovered with a front door from an entrance opening that is covered and uncovered with a rear door, wherein
- door body upper edge lines of the front door and the rear door linearly extend in the vehicle longitudinal direction,
- an outer panel of each of the front door and the rear door is either coated with a paint at least one of whose chroma, lightness, or hue differs from those of a paint used for coating of a pillar outer panel of the center pillar, or coated with a paint containing a flake-shaped brilliant material,
- a panel surface of the pillar outer panel has 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 an outside of the vehicle body relative to an upper portion of the panel surface, and
- a start end of the protrusion is located in a range to 15 mm below the door body upper edge line in at least a center portion in a pillar width of the pillar outer panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.