Calsonic Kansei Corporation

Calsonic Kansei North America, Inc.

Kazuki Funakura

Tsutomu Kawashima

Nobuhiro Nagata

Tomiharu Yamada

Naotoshi Ota

Marius Cociuba

Koutarou Yamanaka

Peng Lee

An airbag device includes an airbag main body, a storing section, an airbag lid member, a hinge section and a protective member. The airbag lid member has a lid section and an opening section. The lid section is configured to be opened by a pressing force of the airbag main body. The opening section is formed when the lid section is opened. The hinge section couples an edge portion of the opening section and the lid section. The protective member is configured and arranged to be disposed between the airbag main body and the hinge section when the airbag main body expands, and has a main protective section and a peripheral portion protective section. The peripheral portion protective section is provided on both sides of the main protective section to cover at least a peripheral portion of the lid section which protrudes from both sides of the hinge section.

Airbag device

A knee bolster structure includes a vehicle-side member, a knee-receiving member, an impact-absorbing section for absorbing an input energy from knees of a driver or front-seat passenger when the knees hit the knee-receiving section, and a knee-receiving member movement section for moving the knee-receiving member to a knee-receiving position for the driver or front-seat passenger, said knee-receiving member being attached to the vehicle-side member via the impact-absorbing section and the knee-receiving member movement section, the impact-absorbing section being structurally separated from the knee-receiving member movement section.

Knee bolster structure

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Saitama, Japan

Kazuki Funakura