Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Kazuhiro Onda

Takashi Kikuchi

Takashi Aoki

Takeshi Kai

Itaru Genpei

Makoto Uchikawa

Nobuhiro Kawamoto

Rei Sakamoto

Masahiro Yoshida

Masamitsu Shiono

Yuichi Saito

Yukio Hiruta

Nobuko Hashikawa

Hitoshi Kato

Hajime Ishida

Disclosed is a passenger protection device () for a vehicle, which protects a passenger (Mn) sitting on a seat () when an external force (Fs) is applied to a side surface () of a vehicle body (). The passenger protection device has a side support (). The side support is provided on the side portion of a seat back (), and supports the upper body (Bu) of the passenger. The side support has a deformable portion (). The deformable portion allows the side support to be deformed by an external force having a predetermined value or more.

Passenger protection device for vehicle

An airbag for a vehicle, the airbag formed as a bag body by sewing together a base cloth, wherein the bag body is configured so that a direction in which the bag body unfolds expands from a base end side of the bag body to a tip end side, and, the bag body includes a tensional force providing mechanism generating a tensional force pulling an upper rim of the bag body toward an outer side by forming a tension line extending so as to cross with the direction in which the bag body unfolds, along a side surface of the bag body.

Vehicle airbag and method of manufacturing the same

A reinforcing element structure placed between left and right seats. A reinforcing element comprises a pair of left and right side walls positioned so as to be disposed opposite from interior faces of a pair of left and right seats, and a reinforcing member for coupling the pair of left and right side walls. The pair of left and right side walls and the reinforcing member are jointly fastened to a tunnel section. A load that acts on the reinforcing element is transferred from one of the side walls to the other side wall via the reinforcing member. The load is withstood by a highly rigid reinforcing element constituted by the left and right side walls and the reinforcing member.

Reinforcing element structure

An airbag apparatus comprising an airbag that expands between a vehicle occupant and a side wall of a vehicle body. The airbag is divided into a plurality of expanding chambers that are connected by a plurality of gas flow channels. Among the expanding chambers, the cross-sectional area of the gas flow channel leading to the expanding chamber that expands first is the largest, the cross-sectional area of the gas flow channel leading to the expanding chamber that expands last is the smallest, and the expanding chambers expand in stages.

Airbag apparatus

An airbag apparatus including an expansion chamber in an arbitrary region of an airbag is disclosed. The expansion chamber has a balancing expansion chamber formed such that an operating force acts in a direction opposite a force acting on the expansion chamber when gas from a gas supplying part is supplied to the expansion chamber.

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Kazuhiro Onda