Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha

Isao Kobayashi

Koichi Nagata

Masato Kunisada

Nobukazu Araki

Shunichi Katsumata

Yasuomi Tanaoka

Jun Hasegawa

Kenji Kaneko

Taisuke Fujiwara

Kyousuke Ii

Kazushi Furumaya

An on-board unit as a direction change detection device is configured to acquire a steered angle and a mileage of a vehicle at a time point at which a right turn event related to a right turn of the vehicle occurs when the right turn event occurs, and detect the right turn on condition that a maximum value of the steered angle is equal to or less than a first threshold value, and the mileage is equal to or greater than a second threshold value.

Direction change detection device, vehicle, direction change detection method, and storage medium

An occupant protection device includes a first side airbag disposed at an outer side in a width direction of a first seat, a second side airbag disposed at an outer side in the width direction of a second seat, and a far-side airbag disposed at an inner side in the width direction of the first seat and near the first seat, wherein when a side collision toward the first seat is detected, deployment of the far-side airbag is started after a first delay time has elapsed after deployment of the first side airbag is started, when a side collision toward the second seat is detected, deployment of the far-side airbag is started after a second delay time has elapsed after deployment of the second side airbag is started, and the first delay time is greater than the second delay time.

Occupant protection device

Stability of shock absorbing property of a shock absorber provided on a back surface of a door trim is improved. A shock absorber is attached on the back surface of the door trim, and absorbs impact applied to the door. A quadrangular tube element of the shock absorber has an end plate on a tube tip surface, and faces the back surface of the door trim. The quadrangular tube element has an approximate U shape in which three side surfaces are closed by an upper plate, a lower plate, and a front plate, and the remaining one side surface is opened.

Shock absorber

A door handle device for a vehicle includes a door opening prevention mechanism that is provided with an inertia lever being rotatably supported at a base frame, an inertia body being mounted to the inertia lever, and an elastic member elastically biasing the inertia lever toward an initial position where the movement of a link mechanism is not restricted by the inertia lever. The inertia lever includes a center of gravity of the inertia lever being set at a same position as a position of a center of gravity of the outside handle in an extending direction of the outside handle, the center of gravity of the inertia lever being set at a same position as a position of the center of gravity of the outside handle in vehicle upper-lower directions, or being set at a lower position relative to the center of gravity of the outside handle.

Door handle device for vehicle

An object of the invention is to provide an airbag that can be efficiently stored according to a storage space. The invention is a side airbagstored in the backrest portion SA of a vehicle seat S, having a first airbagwhich is inflated in a circular shape by gas supplied by an inflatorprovided in the backrest portion SA when seen from the side of the backrest portion SA; a second airbagprovided so as to be located in the first airbagin an inflated state; and a communicating paththat communicates the first airbagand the second airbagon the side of the backrest portion of the second airbag when seen from the side of the backrest portion, in which the second airbaghas a vertical width Tset to be larger than the vertical width Tof the communication path, and has at least the top portion, the bottom portion, and the front portionseparated from the first airbagwhen seen from the side of the backrest portion SA.

Side airbag, curtain airbag and back window airbag

A collision test apparatus includes actuators that move a vehicle structural member toward the side of a carrying unit on which a dummy is carried. The actuators can be driven independently of each other. Therefore, the actuators move the vehicle structural member at respectively different driving speeds. In other words, the collision test apparatus does not simply move the vehicle structural member such that the vehicle structural member collides with the dummy, but also causes the vehicle structural member to collide with the dummy while moving the vehicle structural member at different speeds in different positions.

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Okazaki, Japan

Isao Kobayashi