Mazda Motor Corporation

Hidemi Aoki

Kouki Makino

Osamu Michihira

Isao Hirashima

Shigefumi Hirabayashi

Masatoshi Takayama

Noritaka Sakiyama

Tadashi Ioka

Katsumi Sakane

Yasushi Kameyama

Yasunari Hirotani

Yasukazu Watanabe

Hisaaki Katsuki

Takashi Tsuchida

Ushio Sakurai

Kazuhiro Ushijima

Kunihiko Matumura

Katsumi Shiraishi

Tsuneshi Matsuo

Yoshiharu Nakagawa

Naomi Mitani

Hiroyuki Shinki

Masatake Nishi

An automatic transmission shift device has a shift lever extending from a dashboard toward and near a transverse extremity of a steering wheel and movable at least in a vertical direction to shift an automatic transmission into any desired range. The shift lever is operated or pushed up and down in the vertical direction with a vertical operational power between approximately 10 and 15% of an average maximum muscular kinetic power actively available in the vertical direction of arms of average drivers.

Shift device for automatic transmission

An automotive vehicle has a rear header disposed at a rear end of the roof and above a rear seat. For example, in the event where the automotive vehicle is about to roll, the seat back of the rear seat is leaned forwards and the upper end portion of the seat back is leaned forwards, thereby forcibly repositioning the head of the rear passenger seated on the rear seat to the position remoter from the back window panel.

Apparatus for protecting a rear passenger for an automotive vehicle

An operation apparatus for a vehicle automatic transmission mechanism includes an actuator for driving a hydraulic valve for switching a travel range of an automatic transmission mechanism, a control unit for controlling the actuator, and a transmission operation unit for outputting a range switching instruction to the control unit. In the preferred embodiment, the transmission operation unit includes a stroke contact type operation switch suitably mounted on a side surface of a steering column so that at least forward vehicle travel ranges can be switched by only a stretched finger of the hand of a vehicle driver who continues to maintain his grip on the steering wheel with the same hand. The operation switch can include either a rotary switch or slide switch mounted on the steering column. As an alternative embodiment, the operation switch can be an operation lever swingably arranged on the vehicle instrument panel opposing the steering wheel, but which can be operated so that at least the forward vehicle travel ranges can be switched by only a stretched finger of the vehicle driver's hand while the driver continues to maintain his grip on the wheel with the same hand.

Operation apparatus for vehicle automatic transmission mechanism

A perfume emitting device for use in an automobile comprises a tank for storing a perfume emitting material and a perfume atomizing unit connected to the tank. The perfume atomizing unit is provided with a nozzle for atomizing the perfume emitting material and an operation member reciprocably mounted in the perfume atomizing unit for mechanically operating this unit, when a door of the automobile is opened, so that the perfume emitting material may be emitted to the inside of the automobile for a predetermined period of time.

Perfume emitting device for use in an automobile

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Higashihiroshima, Japan

Hidemi Aoki