Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Ken Nakane

Yutaka Okamoto

Yuji Kikuchi

Takashi Aoki

Kazutada Sasaki

Sakae Sasaki

Tadayuki Uchida

Ryota Abe

Toshikatsu Mouri

Hideki Miura

Tomoaki Ichikawa

Hidetoshi Kurokawa

An air guide structure for guiding outside air in front of the vehicle to equipment to be cooled. Ai air guide duct structure () is provided with: left and right side-wall ducts () provided to the left and right sides of equipment () to be cooled; and left and right seal sections () protruding from the inner wall surfaces () of the left and right side-wall ducts toward the equipment () to be cooled. The left and right seal sections () are spaced by a predetermined distance (S) from the equipment () to be cooled toward the front of the vehicle body. Air pressure during the travel of the vehicle elastically deforms the right and left seal sections () to cause the seal sections to make contact with the equipment () to be cooled.

Air guide duct structure for vehicle

In a pedestrian protection airbag system, an airbag module extending in the lateral direction of a vehicle body is disposed between a rear edge of a hood and a front edge of a cowl top, thereby mounting the airbag module without affecting the intake of air into a vehicle compartment or the positioning of wipers; and the left and right ends of the airbag module are supported by upper parts of left and right front wheel damper housings, whereby the damper housings obtain a high rigidity to reliably bear a reaction force during deployment of an airbag without particularly enhancing the rigidity of the cowl top. Thus, it is possible to rigidly support the airbag module in the pedestrian protection airbag system while minimizing the influence on the shape or structure of the cowl top.

Pedestrian protection airbag system

A collision object protection assembly inflates and expands an air bag on a vehicle if a collision with the vehicle is detected or predicted. The collision object protection assembly includes a retainer positioned in a space between a bonnet hood and a front window glass of the vehicle and accommodating the air bag, and a cowl top arranged around the retainer to close the space between the bonnet hood and the front window glass. The retainer has an upper opening to be covered by a lid member. The lid member is a separate member from the cowl top.

Collision object protection assembly

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Wako, Japan

Ken Nakane