Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha

Hayashi Telempu Co., Ltd.

Fujimi Incorporated

Toyota Shatai Kabushiki Kaisha

Hiroyuki Ishida

Hitoshi Morinaga

Fumitaka Hirose

Yoshiaki Maesoba

Eiji Fujii

Kazuo Fukui

Teruji Kuroyanagi

Nobuhide Hashimoto

Jun Isami

Kenji Atarashi

Naoto Miyamoto

Kazumi Kojima

Isao Yamanaka

Toshimitsu Matsuoka

Provided are a sliding instrument having a low frictional resistance to the snow surface, the ice surface, or the water surface and having excellent sliding performance and a method for manufacturing the sliding instrument. A sliding instrument to slide on snow, ice, or water includes a sliding surface () to come into contact with the snow surface, the ice surface, or the water surface, and the sliding surface () has a surface roughness Ra of 1.0 &#x3bc;m or less. A method for manufacturing the sliding instrument includes polishing a sliding surface () using a polishing composition slurry containing abrasives to make the sliding surface () have a surface roughness Ra of 1.0 &#x3bc;m or less.

Sliding instrument and method for manufacturing same

A shock absorber assembly includes a shock absorber, a utility part, and a flexible member. The shock absorber is provided to a vehicular interior part that is mounted on a compartment inner side of a body panel, and the shock absorber includes a mounting portion that is mounted to a compartment outer side surface of the vehicular interior part. The utility part is provided to the vehicular interior part. The flexible member covers a peripheral surface of the shock absorber, and a part of the flexible member is held by the vehicular interior part and the utility part to support and mount the shock absorber to the vehicular interior part.

Shock absorber assembly

In a vehicle ceiling structure, a long reinforcing rib is attached to a ceiling member of the vehicle, the rib being made of a resin having a different coefficient of thermal expansion from that of the ceiling member. The reinforcing rib comprises a plurality of segmented ribs that are divided by a gap in a longitudinal direction. One segmented rib of adjoining segmented ribs and is formed, in upper and lower parts of a front end portion thereof, with an upper protrusion and a lower protrusion protruding in the longitudinal direction. One segmented rib and the other segmented rib fit with each other such that a lower face of the upper protrusion and an upper face of the lower protrusion of the one segmented rib respectively face a rear end portion of the other segmented rib in an up and down direction.

Vehicle ceiling structure

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Aichi, Japan

Hiroyuki Ishida