	US 7,488,016 B2
	Vehicle front structure
Takayuki Nakamae, Fuchu-cho (Japan); Toshio Sakamoto, Fuchu-cho (Japan); Yasunori Kageyama, Fuchu-cho (Japan); Naoaki Yamamoto, Fuchu-cho (Japan); Soukichi Kikuchi, Fuchu-cho (Japan); and Hiroshi Sogabe, Fuchu-cho (Japan)
Assigned to Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima (Japan)
Filed on Jul. 12, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/826,166.
Claims priority of application No. 2006-193801 (JP), filed on Jul. 14, 2006.
Prior Publication US 2008/0012363 A1, Jan. 17, 2008
Int. Cl. B60R 19/02 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 293—117

7 Claims

1. A vehicle front structure having an engine compartment provided with a heat exchanger, comprising:

a shroud made of a synthetic resin, said shroud being formed to support said heat exchanger and mounted to a vehicle body in a front of said engine compartment;

a bumper fascia disposed in a front end of the vehicle body on a front side relative to said shroud;

a plate member formed in a shape which extends frontwardly from said shroud to a position adjacent to a rear surface of said bumper fascia, and has a rear end attached to a lower shroud section forming a lower edge portion of said shroud; and

a connection member which connects said shroud to the vehicle body, wherein

said vehicle body includes

a front side frame extending in a longitudinal direction thereof, and

a bumper reinforcement detachably fastened to a front end of said front side frame;

said bumper reinforcement includes a crush can having a flange;

said shroud is disposed on a front side relative to said front side frame;

said front end of said front side frame is formed with a flange;

said flange of the crush can is abutted to and fastened to said flange of said front side frame; and

said connection member, being a separate member from said shroud, having a first end and a second end, extending downwardly from the first end to the second end, where the first end is connected to the bumper reinforcement and the second end is connected to the shroud at a position rear of the plate member.