Patent ID: 6971706

Claim:
A side structure of a vehicle comprising: a slide door opening area formed at the side wall of the vehicle, a slide door slidable to freely open and close the slide door opening area, a window opening area formed at the upper portion of the slide door, a window pane elevated and lowered to freely open and close the window opening area, wherein, a rear periphery of the slide door opening area comprises a first rear periphery formed substantially corresponding in position to an area where the window opening area is arranged, which is located above an upper edge of said window pane in the sate where the window pane is lowered down to the maximum, and a second rear periphery formed below the first rear periphery with respect to the vehicular vertical direction, said first rear periphery extends substantially vertically and extends upward from a position that corresponds in height to the upper periphery of the window pane in the sate where the window pane is lowered down to the maximum, said first rear periphery being located behind said second rear periphery with respect to the vehicle's longitudinal direction, the slide door is slidable to a fully opened position where a front periphery of the window opening area substantially corresponds in position to said second rear periphery of the slide door opening area, the longitudinal length between said front periphery of the window opening area and said first rear periphery is greater than the longitudinal length between said front periphery of the window opening area and said second rear periphery in a fully-opened condition of the slide door, and a weather-strip is attached along the rear periphery of the slide door opening area, wherein the slide door opening area includes in the rear periphery a connecting portion connected to said first rear periphery at one end and connected to said second rear periphery at the other end, said connecting portion is formed to curve down and forward from a position that corresponds in height to the upper periphery of the window pane in the state where the window pane is lowered down to the maximum, toward said second rear periphery, and said weather-strip is disposed so as to extend slantingly downward along the shape of said connecting portion.