Nihon Plast Co., Ltd.

Hiromitsu Harada

Toshiyuki Sugiyama

Mikio Ochiai

Hideaki Saito

Masatoshi Ishigaki

Nobukazu Akaike

Junichi Umehara

Hiroyuki Koizumi

Yoshiyuki Sugawara

Yuto Yamaguchi

Masaru Moritake

Satoshi Nagaeda

A light-weight and inexpensively-manufacturable case member of an airbag device is provided. The case member includes an inner portion integrally formed with an edge portion of an opening portion of a housing portion configured to internally hold a folded airbag and an inflator. A lid is fixed to a housing portion at a position where the lid at least partially covers the airbag housed in the housing portion. The opening portion is covered by an outer portion. Thus, a light-weight case member in which the inflator and the folded airbag are housed in the housing portion and covered by the lid can be manufactured inexpensively, without integration of a separately provided housing portion and lid or fixing the airbag or the inflator using an additional component.

Case member of airbag device, airbag device, method of manufacturing airbag device, and apparatus for manufacturing airbag device

A heater for a steering wheel includes a heater main body arranged on a rim of the steering wheel and formed like a net. The heater main body comprises a plurality of heater wires for generating heat upon energization and side edges arranged along longitudinal edges of the heater main body and fixed at an inner periphery of the rim.

Heater, heater-equipped steering wheel, and method of manufacturing such steering wheel

A driver's side airbag module cover assembly including a flexible airbag module cover having an outer surface with a horn actuation area and an inner surface. The airbag module cover is formed with an easy-to-break line extending at least through the horn actuation area. A membrane type switch is mounted behind the horn actuation area and behind the easy-to-break line, extending across the easy-to-break line.

Airbag module cover assembly

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Shizuoka, Japan

Hiromitsu Harada