Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha

Hino Motors, Ltd.

Kenji Gondo

Tatsuya Sugamoto

Naotake Hashimoto

Narihide Matsuyama

Hisataka Kato

Yoshiyuki Marubayashi

Kazutomo Shikimachi

A vehicle seat assembly includes a backrest, a seat including a seat surface, and a partition. The seat is movable between a seat folded position in which the seat surface is disposed along a front surface of the backrest and a seat unfolded position in which the seat surface faces up. The partition to be disposed adjacent to a side surface of the backrest includes a fixing portion and a movable portion. The fixing portion includes a base portion that extends along the side surface and a projecting portion projecting from the base portion farther than the front surface. The movable portion is movable between a folded position adjacent to the base portion and the front surface and an unfolded position away from the base portion and the front surface. The movable portion includes an armrest surface that faces up when the movable portion is in the unfolded position.

Partition and vehicle seat assembly including the same

A structure for protecting a passenger of a vehicle body upper portion of an automobile having a roof side rail (20) disposed inwardly of a roof panel (38) and extending in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle body, and an interior trim material (30) disposed inwardly of the roofside rail is described. The protecting structure includes an energy absorbing material (50) in a space (48) between the interior trim material (30) and the roof panel (38) along the roofside rail (20).

Passenger protecting structure of vehicle body upper portion of

A collision energy absorbing structure of a vehicle body upper portion of an automobile having a roofside rail (20) extending in the forward and backward direction and formed to be a closed structure with an outer panel (30) and an inner panel (32) includes a metal energy absorbing panel (22) and a resin interior trim material (24). The energy absorbing panel (22) has a thickness smaller than the thicknesses of the outer panel (30) and the inner panel (32) and is arranged with a space (D) inward of the inner panel. The terminal portion in the longitudinal direction of the energy absorbing panel (22) has a tendency that energy absorption reduces but the tendency is compensated by resin material (26, 28).

Collision energy absorbing structure of vehicle body upper portion of

A vehicle body upper structure of an automobile provided with a roofside rail (20) including an outer panel (22), a reinforcing panel (24) and an inner panel (26) and formed as a closed sectional structure by joining flange portions facing each other is disclosed. The inner panel (26) is formed by a steel plate having a smaller thickness than the thickness of the outer panel and the thickness of the reinforcing panel and is deformable when a predetermined or more load is applied. The inner panel has integrally a rising portion (28, 29) rising respectively inward from of a pair of flange portions (27A, 27B) and an inward portion (30) coupling the inward ends of these rising portions. The rising portion (29) is formed so as to buckle when a predetermined or more load is applied.

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Kenji Gondo