Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Katsuhiro Okumura

Chiharu Totani

Akiyoshi Nagano

Katsuhiro Katagiri

Tetsuya Fujii

Kenichi Furuta

Shigehiro Ueno

Hisao Hanabusa

Noriyuki Horiuchi

Yukihiko Horiba

Muneharu Sasajima

Toshinori Tanase

Takashi Yamamoto

Yasuo Ochiai

Hiroki Nakajima

Hideyuki Fujiwara

Yasushi Kubota

Shuji Miura

Choko Terazawa

Eisiti Nakamura

Shinji Kondo

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

Air bag for side air bag device

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

A construction of a door frame in a motor vehicle, wherein: an end edge of a door glass is brought into sliding contact with a seal member of a guide portion on the side of a door frame produced by rolling a plate member so as to guide the door glass in the vertical direction; a door weatherstrip for sealing a space formed between a door and a vehicle body, when the door is closed, is mounted to the door frame; the door weatherstrip is disposed adjacent the guide portion on the side of a compartment; wall members disposed adjacent to each other, of a channel holding the guide portion and of the door weatherstrip are formed by bending two plate members into a two-ply shape; and a closed section is formed therebetween.

Construction of door frame in motor vehicle

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Aichi, Japan

Katsuhiro Okumura