Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Nippon Koki Co., Ltd.

Kazuhiro Seki

Takashi Aoki

Kanichi Fukuda

Masaru Abe

Yoshimichi Kawamoto

Yasuki Motozawa

Masami Ogura

Mitsuya Serizawa

Takashi Kohata

Takashi Honda

Junichi Kishimoto

Hirokazu Kobari

Toru Yasuda

Yuichi Saito

Yukio Hiruta

Minoru Kanda

Hiroyuki Maeda

Shinichi Hirahara

Yukihiro Yamaguchi

Satoshi Takizawa

Masanori Takagawa

Michio Shioda

Masayuki Shiga

An air bag, formed by sewing two basic fabrics at a sewing portion, is accommodated within a module case in a state in which the air bag has been fixed to a holder of an inflater at rear-side base portions and folded up into a bellows-like shape at a front-side foldable portions. The base portion of the left basic fabric, which is remote from a center pillar and a front door of a vehicle, has a section between two points b and c, which defines a surplus section. When the foldable portions of the air bag are expanded, the foldable portions can be moved toward an inner surface of a side of the vehicle body by the surplus section b and c and hence, the air bag can be deployed obliquely forwardly to reliably penetrate into a space between the center pillar, as well as the front door, and an occupant.

Seat mounted side air bag

A side impact air bag apparatus located in a seat back of a vehicle for directly initiating an air bag longitudinally before completely inflating the bag in the width direction. The side impact air bag has a casing with an interior, a support for an inflator and a bag enclosing the inflator. The bag is capable of direct inflation longitudinally before completely inflating in the width direction. The bag is arranged inside the casing to have, a forward middle portion associated with the inflator, a right base cloth portion extending from the right of the forward middle portion and having first angled bellow folds of cloth, a left base cloth portion extending from the left of the forward middle portion and having second angled bellow folds of cloth, and an interior gas flow passage extending between the forward middle portion and the inflator, such that gas generated by the inflator easily reaches the forward middle portion through the interior gas flow passage and pushes the forward middle portion out in a longitudinal direction before the first bellow folds and the second bellow folds are inflated.

Air bag apparatus

A safety seat belt device for use in a motor vehicle has a seal belt for constraining an occupant of the motor vehicle. The seat belt includes a shoulder belt portion for extending across the thorax of the occupant and a lap belt portion for extending across the lower waist of the occupant. The safety seat belt device also includes a lock device for locking both the shoulder belt portion and the lap belt portion when the motor vehicle undergoes a forward or rearward collision, and locking only the lap belt portion when the motor vehicle undergoes a lateral collision. The lock device may include a lock mechanism for locking the shoulder belt portion upon a forward or rearward collision, and a lock mechanism for locking the lap belt portion immediately when the seat belt is fastened by the occupant regardless of whether the motor vehicle suffers a lateral collision or not.

Safety seat belt device

An occupant protecting system for a vehicle includes a triangular shock absorbing member which is accommodated in a folded state within an accommodating casing mounted along a roof rail. The shock absorbing member is held stationarily at its front and rear ends to a vehicle body by fixing pins. A movable pin mounted at a lower end of the shock absorbing member is connected through a wire to a developing or unfolding device mounted to a center pillar. The developing or unfolding device includes a gas generator and a cylinder with a piston slidably received therein and coupled to the wire. When the gas generator is operated upon collision of the vehicle to force the piston in the cylinder downwardly by a high pressure gas generated by the gas generator, the movable pin is pulled down through the wire, so that the shock absorbing member is drawn out of the accommodating casing and developed into a triangular shape. Thus, the membrane-like shock absorbing member, when being accommodated, is compact in size and can easily be mounted in a narrow space in the vehicle body.

Occupant protecting system for vehicle

An air bag inflation gas generator to feed combustion gas for inflation of air bags such as air gas for absorbing collision shocks, life jackets, rafts and escape chutes, that aim to easily and surely control the flow rate of combustion gas into the air bag at the initial inflation of the air bag and to effectively utilize the entire purifying filter. The generator has a longitudinal outer cylindrical member having a plurality of gas outlets in its outer periphery, an inner cylindrical member inserted in the outer cylindrical member having gas flow openings formed in the outer periphery, a final filter disposed between the outer cylindrical member and the inner cylindrical member, a plurality of gas generating agents accommodated in a laminated state in the axial direction of the inner cylindrical member having a through hole formed at the center, and an igniter and an ignition agent disposed at one end of the inner cylindrical member and a shielding member for shielding the through hole is disposed at the gas generating agent or between the gas generating agents disposed at the middle part of the inner cylindrical member. This invention forms a plurality of gas flow openings in the substantial part of the outer periphery of the inner cylindrical member, and the hole area of these gas flow openings are designed to be larger as they get a way from the gas outlets of the outer cylindrical member.

Air bag inflation gas generator

This invention relates to an air bag inflation gas generator to feed gas for inflation of air bags such as air bags for absorbing collision shocks, life jackets, rubber, rafts, and escape chutes. The present invention comprises combustion chambers accommodating gas generating agents formed with separating members in the both ends of an elongate cylinder having gas outlets in the middle thereof, a cylindrical final filter installed inside the middle of the cylinder, intermediary filters installed between the final filter and the separating members in the cylinder, and orifices, facing toward the intermediary filters, opened at the separating members. The present invention may generate much larger volume of combustion gas generated from gas generating agents than the prior generators, purify a large volume of combustion gas completely, and control the burning of gas generating agents.

A retainer case accommodating an air bag and consisting of two separate parts, one being an open end side part terminating in an open end of the retainer case and the other being an inflator-secured end side part secured to the vehicle body, the open end side part and inflator-secured end side part being fitted together to form the retainer case. The open end side part of the retainer case is made less rigid than the inflator-secured end side part. When an impact is applied to the retainer case from the passenger compartment side, the open end side part undergoes a deformation and thus absorbs the impact. A stem of the air bag is secured to the retainer case with its edge clamped between the fitted portions of the open end side part and inflator-secured end side part of the retainer case.

Vehicle occupant protection air bag module

An inflatable bag assembly is suitable for a seat of a vehicle such as an assistant driver's seat and has a bag which is inflatable in a curved configuration offset to one side. The bag is accommodated in a retainer case in a folded position. A gas generator has a gas outlet which is offset to one side with respect to the bag. Alternatively, the bag itself may be distributed less to one side of the retainer case than to the other side. Such a configuration of the gas generator or the bag allows the bag to begin inflating at the particular side mentioned above.

Inflatable bag assembly for protecting a vehicle occupant

A steering gear box mount includes a resilient member interposed between a motor vehicle body and a steering gear box for allowing movement of the steering gear box. The mount also has a structure for limiting allowed movement of the steering gear box. The structure includes a mechanism for selectively rigidly fixing the steering gear box to a motor vehicle body, or a mechanism for continuously adjusting the allowed movement of the steering gear box.

Mount for steering gear box

A steering gear box mount includes a resilient member interposed between a motor vehicle body and a steering gear box for allowing movement of the steering gear box. The mount also has a structure for limiting allowed movement of the steering gear box. The structure includes a mechanism for selectively fixing the steering gear box to a motor vehicle body, or a mechanism for continuously adjusting the allowed movement of the steering gear box.

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Wako, Japan

Kazuhiro Seki