Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.

Isuzu Motors Limited

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho

Toyoda Cosei Co., Ltd.

Hisao Hanabusa

Takao Nakajima

Chiharu Totani

Akiyoshi Nagano

Katsuhiro Katagiri

Tetsuya Fujii

Kenichi Furuta

Shigehiro Ueno

Katsunori Kawai

Noriyuki Horiuchi

Yukihiko Horiba

Katsuhiro Okumura

Muneharu Sasajima

Masanori Aritake

Tomohide Aoki

Yoshio Yamazaki

Osamu Hokari

Kazumi Ichimaru

Haruhisa Kawase

Chiho Yamasaki

Masao Ando

Tamiyosi Ohasi

Masami Mizuno

Masahiro Takaya

Yoshihiko Hyodo

Masayuki Nakagawa

Takashi Ohta

Akane Okada

Yuji Kuriyama

Takaaki Ito

Norio Sato

Harumi Kogiso

Tatsuhiko Nagata

Fujio Ninomiya

Tamiyoshi Ohashi

Sukehiro Sawada

Yuuji Kuriyama

Masakiyo Yoshida

Nobutaka Morimitu

Tsugio Fujita

An interior finish member having a door for an air bag includes a main body and a cover. The main body surrounds the periphery of the cover, and the main body and the cover form a continuous surface. The cover covers a folded air bag. The cover includes: a door, which covers the folded air bag. A breakable portion is defined by a recessed periphery of the door and is relatively thin. A hinge connects the door with the main body and provides a pivot around which the door pivots under a force of an expanding air bag. The main body is made of thermoplastic resin, and the cover is made of thermoplastic elastomer. The main body and the cover portion can be integrally formed.

Interior finish member for an automobile with an air bag device

A weather strip comprising an extruded body having straight sections and a corner section curving therebetween is disclosed. The extruded body comprises an attachment portion and a hollow sealing portion integrally formed by extrusion molding. The attachment portion is attached to a part of an automobile and the sealing portion is connected to the attachment portion at both ends. The weather strip comprises: an incision slit made on the outer periphery of the sealing portion in the corner section; an incision edge formed on the sealing portion along the incision slit, the incision edge being spread out toward the outer periphery of the corner section with the attachment portion and sealing portion being curved along a corner shape of the part of the automobile; and a molded part formed at least in the vicinity of the incision edge on the back side of the sealing portion in the corner section.

Weather strip

A door weather strip, which is of annular form as a whole, includes a base section and a hollow sealing section as its basic constituent elements. The portion of the door weather strip corresponding to the corner part of the upper portion on the center pillar side of the front door provides a molded section, and any other section provides a continuously formed extrusion section. On the portion other than the lower side portion in the peripheral portion of the opening section for the front door of a vehicle body, the ridge portion as along the peripheral portion thereof is provided. In the closed state of the front door, the sealing section is elastically deformed so as to be pressed and extended in opposite directions away from the top portion of the ridge portion.

Sealing structure of opening section in vehicle

A method for manufacturing a front door weather strip includes continuously forming one extrusion molding section by extrusion molding corresponding to a region from an upper section of the front door to the rear side section of the front door and forming a mold molding section corresponding to a corner of a rear side upper section of the front door used a mold so as to connect both ends of the extrusion molding section, thereby manufacturing the front door weather strip.

Front door weather strip and manufacturing method therefor

A front door weather strip is annular as a whole, and has one mold molding section fixed to the corner section which is the rear side upper section of a door frame, and one extrusion molding section. The extrusion molding section includes a base section and a hollow sealing section. A seal lip is integral with the part of the extrusion molding section which corresponds to the upper section of the door frame. The length of the seal lip is gradually changed at a front upper corner part. During extrusion molding, the part of the extrusion molding section which corresponds to a front lower corner part is formed as follows: That is, the sealing section is larger in height than the other part. At least the part of the extrusion molding section which corresponds to the lower section is smaller in wall thickness of the vehicle outside base end part of the sealing section than the part which corresponds to the upper section.

An interior finish member having a door suitable for an air bag comprises a main body and a cover portion. The main body surrounds the periphery of the cover portion, and the main body and the cover portion form a continuous surface. The cover portion covers a folded air bag of an air bag device. The cover portion comprises: a door portion which covers the folded air bag; a breakable portion defined by a recessed periphery of the door portion whose thickness is thinner than adjacent portions of the interior finish member so that it may be broken easily in deployment of the air bag; and a hinge portion for connecting the door portion with the main body and for providing a pivot around which the door portion rotates when the door portion opens under a force of an expanding air bag. The main body is made of thermoplastic resin, and the cover portion is made of thermoplastic elastomer. Because they are capable of thermally fusing with each other, the main body and the cover portion can be integrally formed.

Interior finish member for an automobile with an air bag device and

An air bag cover and manufacturing method thereof wherein the air bag cover comprises a core member which can be formed by injection molding, and a decorative sheet disposed on the surface of the core member. The decorative sheet includes at least two layers, an outer layer and a barrier layer disposed on a back side of the outer layer to protect the outer layer when the core member is injection molded. The core member is made of thermoplastic elastomer which can be thermally fused to the barrier layer. A breakable portion is provided in the barrier layer and core member.

Method for manufacturing an air bag cover

A method of forming a molded seal portion onto a corner part of a weather strip without generating any molding defect due to variations in the injection amount, injection pressure or the like of the molding material. A seal portion projecting from one side wall of a trim portion is partly cut off, the remaining trim portion is bent to a corner configuration and placed in a mold, and a molding material for the seal portion is injected into a cavity of the mold from the position corresponding to a longitudinally extending base end edge of the molded seal portion such that the molding material flows from the side of the longitudinally extending base end edge of the molded seal portion towards a distal end edge thereof to fill the cavity.

Method of forming a corner part of a weather strip

Air bag cover and manufacturing method for same

A process is provided for molding a pad for an air bag device. The pad has a cover portion, a hinge portion disposed near one edge thereof, and a bracket portion extending from the hinge portion at an angle with respect to the cover portion. The pad is provided with a flexible reinforcing insert embedded therein, extending from the bracket portion to the cover portion through the hinge portion. The insert is set in a mold, while the mold is open, so that the insert may be held in position by pins projecting from the mold into that portion of a mold cavity which forms the bracket portion of the pad. After the mold is closed, a molding material is injected into the mold cavity through a gate connected to that edge of the cavity which forms the one edge of the cover portion of the pad. A pad formed by the process is also provided.

Air bag device and method of molding a pad portion thereof

An air bag device is provided including an air bag 1, an inflator 5, and a casing 7 including an upper case member and a lower case member, surrounding the air bag and the inflator. The lower case member 16 and auxiliary plates 18 form fitting recesses 17 at the connecting portion 16a of the lower case member which open upwardly. Tongue pieces 10 are formed at the connecting portion 9a of the upper case member near the gas jetting outlets 6 of the inflator in such a manner that they are extended downwardly from the upper case member. The tongue pieces 10 are inserted into the fitting recesses 17 to form the casing. The auxiliary plates 18 are pushed against the tongue pieces 10 by the pressure of gas jetted from the gas jetting outlets 6.

Air bag device including a two piece casing

An evaporation loss control device provided with a polymer chamber filled with polymer absorbent, a charcoal chamber filled with charcoal, introduction and purging pipes for connecting the polymer chamber with a fuel tank and an engine intake passage, respectively, an air pipe for ventilation connected to the charcoal chamber, and a vapor passage, which has various forms. For example, the vapor passage may be formed in spiral to encircle the polymer chamber, or provided between the polymer and charcoal chambers, thus allowing the evaporated fuel to pass therethrough. The vapor passage is constructed to prevent the evaporated fuel trapped by the polymer absorbent from flowing into the charcoal chamber, and also to prevent the liquid fuel from being absorbed by the charcoal.

Evaporation loss control device

A fuel tank comprising a filler tube, a communication passage, a charcoal canister, a cover member, a first magnetic member, and a second magnetic member along with the body of the tank. The filler tube is mounted at the top of the body of the tank. The canister is installed inside the communication passage connected with the filler tube. The cover member covers the top of the filler tube. The first magnetic member is disposed inside the filler tube and has a valve portion which opens and closes the communication passage. The second magnetic member is disposed outside the filler tube, and is moved when the cover member is opened or closed. The magnetic force produced by the second magnetic member can move the first magnetic member.

Fuel tank for vehicle

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Hisao Hanabusa