Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.

Akitoshi Naganawa

Naohiko Ishiguro

Kenji Fujimura

Masaaki Mori

Itsuhiko Hirota

Kazuma Muramatsu

Bunpei Morita

Yuki Miyasaka

A steering device pad is disposed on an upper face of a boss portion in a steering device, and a design portion is disposed in a region of a ceiling wall portion covering the boss portion. The steering device pad includes a pad body and a light source unit disposed on a back face of a ceiling wall portion of the pad body. The ceiling wall portion includes a low translucent portion and a high translucent portion having different light transmittances. The high translucent portion constitutes the design portion so as to be configured to transmit light emitted from the light source unit.

Steering device pad

A housing unit doesn't include a configuration for fixing a lens cover and includes a housing contact part contacting the lens cover with respect to the reference direction. The lens cover doesn't include a configuration for fixing a lens mount and includes a lens cover contact part contacting the lens mount. The lens mount doesn't include a configuration for fixing a substrate and includes a lens mount contact part contacting the substrate. The substrate doesn't include a configuration for fixing a bottom wall unit and includes a substrate contact part contacting the bottom wall unit. The housing unit includes a housing engagement part. The bottom wall unit includes a bottom wall engagement part. The engagement between the housing engagement part and the bottom wall engagement part fixes the housing unit and the bottom wall unit relative to each other with respect to the reference direction.

Light illuminator and steering device

A steering wheel includes a control unit that executes an acceleration control or a deceleration control of a vehicle based on results of detections by a first contact detecting portion, a second contact detecting portion, a first operation detecting portion, and a second operation detecting portion. The control unit does not execute the acceleration control or the deceleration control based on an operation of a first operating portion when the first operating portion is operated in a state in which the first contact detecting portion is not detecting contact by a driver with a first gripping portion, and does not execute the acceleration control or the deceleration control based on an operation of a second operating portion when the second operating portion is operated in a state in which the second contact detecting portion is not detecting contact by the driver with a second gripping portion.

Steering wheel and vehicle control device

A steering wheel includes an illumination unit, an illumination arrangement part where the illumination unit is arranged, and an outer coat layer made of a leather member. The illumination arrangement part includes a covering portion covered with the outer coat layer and a recess part is formed at the covering portion. The recess part houses a terminal portion of the leather member and at least a part of the illumination unit, and has an opening opened outwardly. The illumination unit includes a light-emitting part, and a closing member having permeability to light emitted from the light-emitting part and closing the opening of the recess part. The covering portion includes a recess part side wall forming section forming a side surface of the recess part, and a recess part bottom wall forming section forming a bottom surface of the recess part. The terminal portion of the leather member is arranged continuously along the recess part side wall forming section and the recess part bottom wall forming section.

Steering wheel having illumination unit

An airbag is provided with a vent hole and a patch closing the vent hole. The airbag has a conically-shaped protrusion with the front narrowed when inflation is finished. The vent hole and patch are at the vehicle body side wall of the protrusion. The airbag has the reaction force-receiving contact portion that is partially recessed toward an occupant by receiving a reaction force substantially opposite to the approach direction of the occupant from the reaction force-applying support portion of the vehicle body structure when the occupant is cushioned, at the vehicle body side wall of the protrusion. The patch is positioned where the vent hole can keep closed when the airbag finishes inflating. The patch is not pressed against the reaction force-applying support portion but is spaced from the circumferential edge portion of the vent hole that moves when the reaction force-receiving contact portion is recessed.

Airbag apparatus

An airbag includes a tuck that is formed by tucking a part of the outer circumferential wall toward an interior of the airbag. The tuck includes two opposing walls, a turn-round region that forms a bottom of the tuck and outermost ends of the opposing walls adjacent to and continuing to an outer surface of the airbag. The airbag further includes a temporary joint that joins the opposing walls of the tuck together in such a manner as to disjoint when an inner pressure of the airbag at inflation is increased. The temporary joint is formed into such a line that extends toward the turn-round region and has a first end proximate the outermost ends and a second end in the vicinity of the turn-round region.

Airbag

The airbag of an airbag apparatus is provided with a slip member that is disposed on the outer surface of an occupant protection area of an airbag main body and can suppress load to an occupant by allowing the airbag main body to slide when the airbag comes in contact with the occupant while being developed and inflated. The slip member is connected to the airbag main body at both left and right edges and a rear-lower edge. In the slip member, a left connecting portion and a right connecting portion for connecting both left and right edges to the airbag main body are connected at a position before and above the center of the occupant protection area, and the rear connecting portion for connecting the rear-lower edge to the airbag main body is connected at a position rear-lower the center of the occupant protection area.

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Kiyosu, Japan

Akitoshi Naganawa