Rear structure of vehicle
AssigneeMitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKosuke Yoshimura, Masahiro Yoshida, Tsunehisa Nagayoshi, Tomoo Yasuda, Hirokazu Matsui, Norihiko Yoshimine, Hideyasu Nakagami, Akinori Okumura
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Abstract
A rear structure 1 of a vehicle has a high mounted stop lamp 5 provided at the rear end of a vehicle body. The rear structure is configured such that regions bilaterally outward of a region, where the high mounted stop lamp is installed, on the upper surface of the rear end are inclined more steeply than a reference plane comprising an inclined surface of a roof panel 2, and that the lower surface of the high mounted stop lamp is located above a rearward field of view from the vehicle.
Claims4
A rear structure of a vehicle comprising:
- a high mounted stop lamp provided at a rear end of the vehicle,
- wherein regions bilaterally outward of a region, where the high mounted stop lamp provided in a central upper surface part of the rear end is installed, have inclined surfaces inclined more steeply than a reference plane extending along a surface of a roof panel,
- wherein the inclined surfaces formed in the regions bilaterally outward of the region, where the high mounted stop lamp is installed, form recesses ends, in a width direction of the vehicle, of the recesses have angled sections, and
- wherein ends, in a width direction of the vehicle, of the recesses have angled sections.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.