Patent ID: 6315352
Filing Date: 2001-11-13
Classification: B60N

Abstract:
A construction for automobiles that relates a seat device and a car body to each other, including a car body having a car interior floor constituting the lower portion thereof, and a pair of lateral walls constituting the sides of the car body, front and rear seat devices installed in the car interior surrounded by said car interior floor and said opposite lateral walls, said front seat device having a driver's seat and an assistant driver's seat that are disposed side by side to each other, said driver's seat being supported so that it can be moved with respect to the car interior floor along a longitudinal axis of the car body, the lateral wall on the side of the driver's seat being formed with a driver's door opening adjacent the driver's seat, the lateral wall on the side of the assistant driver's seat being formed with an assistant driver's door opening adjacent the assistant driver's seat, a steering shaft installed to project rearwardly upward in front of the driver's seat toward the driver's seat, with a steering wheel mounted on the projecting end of said steering shaft, said construction being characterized in that the rear opening edge of said driver's door opening formed in the lateral wall is positioned rearwardly of the rear opening edge of the assistant driver's door opening formed in the other lateral wall.