Yazaki Corporation

Akio Minami

Keizo Nishitani

Yoshihito Aoki

Masataka Nishijima

Mitsunobu Kato

Shinichi Okamoto

An automobile door that is significantly easy to fabricate, enhanced in ease of assembling door components, and reduced in the number of parts to be mounted. The door comprises an outer panel and an inner panel. The inner panel is composed of a main panel made of metal and a resin-molded sub panel formed integrally with the main panel. The inner panel is formed with a mount on which door functional parts to be mounted on the door are mounted. The inner panel is also formed integrally with electrically connecting means for connecting these door functional parts with each other.

Automobile door

A circuit and its connecting structure assembly provided in a motorcar door includes an inner unit being able to joint to a door panel, and an arm rest unit attached on the inner unit. The inner unit has an inner panel provided with a circuit, a plurality of auxiliary components connected to the circuit, and an integrated connector section. The arm rest unit includes a connector portion corresponding to the integrated connector section, a control circuit board connected to the connector portion and to a switch section for the auxiliary components, a circuit provided in the arm rest body and connected to the control circuit board, and an optional switch connected to the circuit. In the optional switches connected to the circuit provided in the arm rest unit, software replacement of the control circuit board can change the functions of the optional switches.

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Shizuoka, Japan

Akio Minami