Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Nippon Seiko Kabushiki Kaisha

Atsushi Sugiura

Masakazu Hashimoto

Toshihito Miyagawa

Kazuo Kobayashi

Takuya Higashiura

Toshihiko Nakamura

Masuo Matsuki

Sadakazu Furukawa

Yasushi Suizu

An instrument panel of a division type, which has distinctly divided portions, reduces restrictions on designing freedom resulting from a break line and a parting line of an air bag door portion and prevents the overall quality of the outward appearance from deteriorating. The instrument panel is of a type that is divided into upper and lower panels, and the lower panel is divided into a passenger-side lower panel and a driver-side lower panel. The parting line of the instrument panel coincides with a cleavage line defined by an upper air bag door portion and a lower air bag door portion. In a lower door insert of the lower air bag door portion, a free end thereof is set wider than a fixed end thereof. The passenger-side lower panel including the lower air bag door portion is entirely covered with a single skin.

Instrument panel integrally equipped with air bag door portion

An air bag device is provided which includes:

Air bag device

An overlock prevention mechanism for a vehicle acceleration sensor used on a retractor for a seat belt device in a vehicle comprises an inertial body which moves in response to acceleration of the vehicle; a sensor casing on which the inertial body is mounted; a ratchet wheel which locks the retractor; and a composite sensor arm assembly comprising an upper sensor arm which is adapted to be engaged with the ratchet wheel and a lower sensor arm which is adapted to come into contact with the inertial body to transmit the movement of the inertial body to the upper sensor arm; and when the upper sensor arm is interlocked with the ratchet wheel, the lower sensor arm is forced toward the inertial body by a force activated from the ratchet wheel and transmitted through the upper sensor arm, so that the inertial body is pressed to the sensor casing against movement.

Overlock prevention mechanism for acceleration sensor

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Atsushi Sugiura