Mazda Motor Corporation

Ippei Yamachi

Masanobu Fukushima

Hiroaki Nakao

Akira Sone

Hiroaki Takeshita

Takeshi Murai

Akihiro Kobayashi

Masafumi Sakakida

Masanobu Kosaka

Satoshi Nishikaji

Naoki Kaneko

Yasunori Sasaki

Kazuhiko Yoshikawa

Masashi Ohtsuka

Ryoji Funahashi

Hiroshi Okugawa

A ring portion of a steering wheel is disposed to be inclined relative to a vertical direction with an inclined angle between 40 and 90 degrees, when viewed from a vehicle width direction, and a bag portion has a larger configuration than the ring portion so as to cover over the ring portion when an airbag inflation is completed. Accordingly, there can be provided the steering wheel equipped with the so-called donut type of airbag portion of a airbag device that can perform its advantages fully and thereby improve the driver's protection.

Steering wheel equipped with airbag device

A seatbelt system for a front seat of a vehicle having such a double door that a front door () and a rear door () open outwardly forward and rearward, respectively, to form an uninterrupted doorway () to a passenger compartment (A) and the front door () overlaps the rear door from the outside so as to allow the rear door () to open and close while the front door is open comprises a retractor () installed in the rear door () and retracting a seatbelt () therein, a seatbelt lock mechanism () operative to lock the seatbelt () when the seatbelt () attains a predetermined acceleration, and a lock canceling mechanism () operative to put the seatbelt lock mechanism () inoperative when activated, The seatbelt system activates the lock canceling mechanism () to put the seatbelt lock mechanism () inoperative when the seatbelt () is unbuckled while the front door and/or the rear door is open or not properly closed and deactivates the lock canceling mechanism () to put the seatbelt lock mechanism () operative when the seatbelt () is buckled up while the front door and/or the rear door is open or not properly closed.

Front seatbelt system for vehicle

A seat belt system for a vehicle for restraining an occupant in a first seat mounted in a passenger compartment of the vehicle, the vehicle including an opening formed on at least one side of a vehicular body. The seat belt system includes a belt webbing having a first and second end. A retractor is disposed at a door of the vehicle for retracting the first end of the belt webbing. A lap-anchor device is disposed at the door of the vehicle for fixedly supporting the belt webbing below and outward of the first seat. The lap-anchor device includes an anchor bracket and a moving device. The anchor bracket is connected with the second end of the belt webbing. The anchor bracket includes an engaging portion which communicates with an engageable portion provided at the vehicular body below the opening. The anchor bracket is also movable between a first position above the lower edge of the door where the anchor bracket does not impede the opening and closing motion of the door and a second position below the lower edge of the opening where the engaging portion engages the engaged portion when the door is closed. The moving device moves the anchor bracket between the first position and the second position.

Seat belt system for a vehicle

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Ippei Yamachi