Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Piolax, Inc.

Akihiro Shibuya

Ryan A Miller

Duane Trent Detwiler

Keisuke Kojima

Christopher J Mampe

Carlington George Demetrius

Hirofumi Tanaka

Hitoshi Ohgane

Nobuya Shinozaki

Akira Miyazaki

Skye Malcolm

Junya Harada

Yozo Takagi

David L Burge

Hideki Minami

John F Howard, Jr

Yoshinobu Kanazawa

Fumiyuki Mizuno

Kouji Yamada

Masashi Ohkubo

Noriyuki Yamanaka

Steve Mark

Douglas Longhitano

Christos Agouridis

Yasuhisa Egawa

Yasuo Mochioka

An overhead display system for a vehicle is disclosed. The system includes a trim panel, a set of brackets, and a plurality of display units. The brackets are disposed within an interior region of the trim panel, and the display units are mounted on the brackets through openings formed in the trim panel. The display units are arranged such that a pair of screens can be oriented in both a rearward-facing direction and a forward-facing direction. The system is configured as a module that can be readily installed in a roof structure of a vehicle.

Overhead display system for vehicles

A vehicle bumper structure includes a bumper beam and an absorber. The bumper beam includes an upper absorber support surface and an upper reinforcing rib. The upper reinforcing rib includes an upper rib body portion and a pair of right and left upper rib bend portions extending from right and left ends of the upper rib body portion so as to bend toward a vehicle inner side. The absorber includes an absorber body, a pair of right and left upper absorber support legs extending from the absorber body across the upper reinforcing rib, and a pair of right and left contact portions extending outward in a vehicle width direction from the upper absorber support legs so as to be in contact with the right and left upper rib bend portions from the vehicle inner side.

Vehicle bumper structure

A fastener including a pin, a grommet and a pinching member, wherein the pin includes a head portion and a shaft portion, the grommet includes a flange portion and a barrel portion, and the pinching member includes an inward directed support arm and an outward directed pinching piece, the head portion includes a support portion for supporting the inward directed support arm of the pinching member, a containing chamber for containing a side of the outward directed pinching piece of the pinching member to direct in a direction of a center of the shaft portion and a press face for pressing outward the outward directed pinching piece of the pinching member at the shaft portion of the pin and forming an opening window for putting in and out the outward directed pinching piece of the pinching member at the barrel portion of the grommet.

Fastener for fixing a part to a body panel

A paint substitute film productfor surfacing an object S includes a decorative coat including a light-curable resinous layer, and a protective film provided over a surface of the light-curable resinous layer of the decorative coat. An adhesion strength ASbetween a surface of the object and the decorative coat, an adhesion strength ASbetween the protective film and the decorative coat, and a tensile strength TS of the decorative coat are configured to exhibit the equation: AS&#x3e;AS&#x3e;TS. The paint substitute film productcan deliver increased economy in surfacing the object, and the step of forming the object to be surfaced and the step of applying the paint substitute film can be provided independently.

Paint substitute film and method of applying same

A shock absorbing member attaching structure for attaching a shock absorbing membermade from a resin to a bumper beamof a vehicle body, characterized in that protruding portionswhich protrude in opposite directions are provided on the bumper beam, and in that attaching portionsare provided on the shock absorbing memberwhich are adapted to ride over the respective protruding portionsby virtue of elastic deformation thereof to be locked onto the protruding portionson a longitudinally inward side thereof.

Bumper shock absorbing structure

An impact reduction vehicle bumper system for a vehicle has a pedestrian safety plate, which is connected to a steel bumper beam and occupies the region between a pair of frame rails that are disposed on the front of the vehicle. The bumper beam is connected to side brackets, which are bolted to the vehicle frame rails. Frame rail extensions are located in front of the frame rails and are welded to the side brackets.

Vehicle pedestrian safety bumper system

A structure for mounting a bumper beam 2 extending transversely of a vehicle covered with a bumper face 6 and mounted to a chassis 3 through a support 4, in which the bumper beam 2 is formed into a hollow body made of high-tension steel, the front end of the support 4 extends forward beyond the rear portion of the bumper beam 2. Thus, when a large collision energy works on the lightweight bumper beam formed into a hollow body made of high-tension steel, the collision energy is quickly transferred to the vehicle chassis through the front end of the beam.

Vehicle bumper mounting structure

A vehicular bumper beam is comprised of a hollow member of high tension steel, which has a front corner portion with an inclined surface. With this arrangement, when a collision energy is applied obliquely to the corner portion of the bumper beam, the collision energy is received by the inclined surface. As a result, a small collision energy arising from a collision at a low speed can readily be absorbed while a large collision energy arising from a collision at a high speed can be transmitted to a vehicle body quickly and efficiently.

Vehicular bumper beam and method for fabricating the same

A vehicular bumper mounting structure including a support for mounting a hollow, transversely extending bumper beam of high tension steel to a side member of the vehicle body. The support includes a support body and an arm member adapted to be mounted to an upper side or a lower side of the support in an overlapping relation thereto. At least one of the support body and the arm member has at an end thereof an extension extending beyond a rear side portion of the bumper beam. Consequently, if a large collision energy is exerted to the bumper beam, which is hollow and hence light in weight, the collision energy is transmitted to at least one of the support body and arm member before the entire bumper beam having a box cross section is largely deformed, whereby the collision energy transmitted to the support can be transmitted to the vehicle body quickly.

Vehicular bumper mounting structure

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Saitama, Japan

Akihiro Shibuya