Mitsui Minings & Melting Co., Ltd.

Tachi-s Co., Ltd.

Kddi Corporation

Ihi Corporation

Nabtesco Corporation

Kddi R&d Laboratories, Inc.

Mitsui Mining & Smelting, Ltd

Atsushi Koike

Kiyoshi Yamagishi

Ryoichi Kawada

Toshimi Nakamura

Toshiaki Kawanishi

Takayuki Takahata

Osamu Sugimoto

Atsushi Ishii

Kotaro Kumagai

Shuichi Matsumoto

Masahiro Wada

Sei Naito

Hideo Tobata

Kenji Tomonari

Kenichi Hiraizumi

Tomohiro Amano

Shigeyuki Sakazawa

Akio Ishikawa

Masaaki Yokota

Hiromitsu Miyajima

Kiyotaka Yanagi

Shumpei Toyomi

Shogo Suzuki

Kazuhiko Sakurai

Shinichi Inoue

Akiko Kubota

Shinya Furuki

Kenjiro Izutani

Shin-ichi Inoue

Atsushi Matsumura

Ryuichi Sato

Koji Tanaka

Hideyuki Kojima

Yuji Kobayashi

Yasuyuki Nakajima

Yutaka Uneura

Masayuki Hashimoto

Naoki Toda

Hiromasa Tanji

Masaki Harada

Masanori Okada

Yasunori Tabira

Takao Tsutsui

Kenji Matsuo

Tomonobu Yoshino

Atsushi Ichida

Takahito Azuma

Satoshi Kusano

Yohei Maruyama

Kazuhiko Shinagawa

Takuto Ogawa

Hideshi Sekimori

Yukihiro Tochio

Tsutomu Makino

Hiroshi Nozu

Mitsushi Maeyama

Hirofumi Kotaka

Tsuyoshi Nishiyama

An object is to provide a fixing structure of a webbing which can improve workability when a webbing is mounted and can also contribute to cost reduction, and a vehicle seat provided therewith. A fixing structure of a webbing in a vehicle seat having an airbag device, including an airbag module fixed to a seat frame of the vehicle seat, a first webbing and a second webbing surrounding the airbag module together with the seat frame and guiding the inflating airbag to an airbag outlet on a seat surface, a locked portion provided on a first end part of the first webbing, a fixed portion provided on a second end part of the second webbing, a locking member formed of a member having rigidity and having a fixing portion to which the fixed portion of the second webbing is fixed and a locking portion which hooks and locks the locked portion of the first webbing.

Fixing structure of webbing

A sensor relating to one aspect of the present invention includes a first electrode, a second electrode arranged relative to the first electrode with a gap being provided therebetween, a sensor body having the first and second electrodes arranged therein, and a catching portion arranged in the gap and having an outer peripheral surface made of an insulating material. Electric connection is established along the outer peripheral surface via conductive particles gathering to the catching portion.

Magnetic sensor for capturing metal wear particles in suspension in a lubrication fluid

A wiring structure includes a wiring such as a flexible printed wiring board, a permanent magnet, and a relay piece. The wiring has a conductive portion. The permanent magnet has electrical conductivity. The relay piece is formed of a conductive metal and connected to the conductive portion of the wiring. The relay piece has the permanent magnet fixed thereto by magnetic attraction.

Wiring structure, conductive particle detecting device, and speed reducer

The present invention realizes a vehicle seat that allows for smooth movements of the shoulders of a sitter while maintaining a good fit for the sitter. The vehicle seat comprises a back seat having a lower part that supports a lower back area of a sitter, a central part that supports a ribs area, and an upper part that supports a shoulder blades area. The central part has a front surface formed so as to be wider than the lower part and the upper part as viewed from the front side, the front surface being curved with right and left ends thereof being projected forward. The seat back has a notched shape extending from the central part to the upper part such that shoulders of the sitter are exposed as viewed from the rear side.

Vehicle seat

A vehicle seat includes a pair of side frames, a seat back which includes a pair of connecting parts which respectively support the pair of side frames to be tiltable to a front side of a seat, and a seat belt which includes an upper body restricting part, which restricts an upper body of an occupant in the seat back, and in which the upper body restricting part is moored in the side frame. The connecting part which supports the side frame includes a base part which is fixed in a frame of the seat cushion, and a force limiter part which is interposed between the base part and the side frame and allows tilting of the side frame through a plastic deformation when a tensile force exceeding a predetermined value is loaded on the upper body restricting part of the seat belt.

A vehicle seat includes: a seat cushion; a seat back; a frame; a headrest which is provided on an upper end portion of the frame; and a reclining portion wherein: the reclining portion includes: a link supporting the seat back at a swing end section; a sector gear rotated integrally with the link; a lock unit configured to move between an engaging position and a disengaging position for releasing from the engagement with the sector gear and configured to unrotatably hold the sector gear at the engaging position; and a biasing section biasing the lock unit toward the engaging position; and the lock unit includes: a pinion gear meshing with the sector gear at the engaging position and allowing rotation of the sector gear by rotating in a state of meshing with the sector gear; and a gear holding part configured to unrotatably hold the pinion gear.

Provided is a seat for vehicles that improves holding properties during seating without providing more support sections than necessary in a seat cushion, and enables a passenger to smoothly getting on and off the vehicle. The seat for vehicles has a seat cushion that forms the seating surface of the seat, a seat back that forms the backrest of the seat, and a headrest that protects the head and neck of a passenger, in which the seat cushion includes a pelvis holding section that holds the pelvis of the passenger on the rear side of the seat cushion, and thigh holding sections that hold the thighs of the passenger on the front surface side of the right and left side surfaces of the seat cushion, in which the height of the seating surface on the rear side of the seat cushion is lower than the height of the thigh holding sections, and is lower than the height of the pelvis holding section.

Seat for vehicles

An upper-front of a seatback is cut, providing a hole at a position the occupant's shoulder may lie, and an engaging means able to engage with a shoulder webbing is fitted in the hole. The engaging means holds the shoulder webbing, which is wrapped around the occupant. The engaging means is, for example, a (second) buckle fitted in the hole. A second tongue (intermediate tongue) is mounted on a middle part of the shoulder webbing. The shoulder webbing is wrapped slantwise around the occupant's shoulder when the second tongue is engaged with the second buckle.

Seat belt device for the vehicle seat

Provided is an inexpensive, easy-to-assemble vehicular seat having few components. The vehicular seatA has a surface skinand a backboardto which the surface skinis attached, wherein the surface skinhas a first surface skinand a second surface skinconnected to the first surface skin, protruding membersand holesare provided as a connecting structure for connecting the backboardand the second surface skin, and the second surface skinis formed from a soft material such as an elastomer.

Vehicular seat

A passenger protection device includes an airbag case to be provided in an arm rest of a vehicle seat, and an airbag; wherein the airbag case has a passenger-side wall that is a cover that can rotate upward around its upper end; the device comprises support members that lie flat on a passenger-side surface of the cover and can assume an upright orientation; and if the vehicle collides at one side, the airbag is inflated and deployed outside the airbag case through the opening made in a passenger-side of the arm rest and pushes the cover, thereby rotating the cover upward, the support members may stand on the airbag case, supporting the cover rotated upward from back in an upright orientation.

Passenger protection device

A turbocharger system of an embodiment includes: a wastegate valve; an electrically-operated actuator configured to adjust a valve lift of the wastegate valve; a temperature acquisition unit configured to acquire a target temperature which is a temperature of the turbocharger body or a temperature correlating with the temperature of the turbocharger body; and an actuator controller configured to control the electrically-operated actuator on the basis of the target temperature. The temperature acquisition unit acquires the target temperature, and the actuator controller controls the electrically-operated actuator on the basis of the target temperature.

Turbocharger system and control method for the same

A turbocharger includes: a thrust bearing fixed to a turbocharger main body; and a supply oil passage provided in the turbocharger main body to the thrust bearing. The thrust bearing includes: an insertion hole in which to insert the turbine shaft; pressure receiving portions displaced from one another in phase in a rotational direction of the turbine shaft, and each configured to form an oil film between the pressure receiving portion and the thrust collar to receive a thrust load by use of oil film pressure; and intervening portions each located between two of the pressure receiving portions adjacent in the rotational direction of the turbine shaft, and being further away from the thrust collar than the pressure receiving portions. The intervening portion vertically under the insertion hole at least partially has a surface further away from the thrust collar than the other intervening portions.

Turbocharger

A seat cushion is arranged on a riser. A strut is coupled, at lower end, to the rear end of the riser, and is provided at the back of the seat cushion. The seatback is secured to the strut, and is isolated from the seat cushion. The seatback and the seat cushion can therefore move, independent of each other. The seatback or the seat cushion, or both are lifted or lowered by a lifting/lowering means. Thus, the seatback and the seat cushion are lifted or lowered relative to each other. The lower half of the seatback, which supports the hips and lower ribs in the main, is made narrow than the upper half that supports the shoulder blades in the main. The seat cushion has, in the middle part of the rear end, a U-notch which loosely holds the narrow lower half.

Seat

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Saitama, Japan

Atsushi Koike