Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Aisin Keikinzoku Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Jidoshi Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Joshida Kabsuhiki Kaisha

Kenji Ono

Hiroyuki Watanabe

Eiichi Hamada

Motomu Hayashi

Shinichi Haneda

Haruhiko Terada

Keiji Mori

Koji Saeki

Kazunari Azuchi

Kunio Ohashi

Kiyohito Gyobu

Keiici Ishida

A bumper assembly is effective to prevent stepped walls of a concave portion of a bumper cover from being sharply deformed. Cavities are formed at parts of an energy absorber facing to a bottom wall of the concave portion of the bumper cover to define spaces behind the bottom wall. The stepped walls are moved in the cavities of the energy absorber when the energy absorber is deformed elastically in collision.

Bumper assembly for vehicles

An automotive vehicle bumper assembly includes a pair of side members constituting part of a vehicle body, a bumper reinforcement supported on the side members and extending transversely of the vehicle body, and an energy absorber arranged on a front surface of the bumper reinforcement. The bumper reinforcement has a rectangular cross section, upper and lower walls, and an intermediate wall connecting the upper and lower walls.

An automobile window glass assembly for raising and lowering a window glass set in a door of an automobile includes a pair of guide rails secured to the door and having a longitudinally extending groove for guiding two opposing edges of the window glass. Guide rollers are secured to the two opposing edges of the window glass for being raised and lowered along corresponding ones of the guide rails. Each of the guide rollers includes a cylindrical roller consisting of a synthetic resin and secured to the head of a shaft fixed to the window glass, and a cap fitted into an open end portion of the cylindrical roller and having a freely elastically deformable portion contacting a surface of the groove of the corresponding guide rail at all times to assure that the window glass will not develop looseness or play in the direction of door width.

Automobile window glass assembly

The present door for a motor vehicle includes a door glass, a door glass piece and a guide groove. The door glass piece has a substantially crank shape and a forward end sliding portion offset into the vehicle and secured to an end portion of the door glass, the sliding portion of the door glass piece being slidably guided by the guide groove on a door frame aligned to enable opening and closing of the door glass, while the outer surfaces of the door glass and the door frame are substantially flush with each other. According to the present invention the sliding portion of the door glass piece and the door glass are formed such that an angle formed by a center line of the sliding portion and the outer surface of the door glass is less than 180.degree., the outer surface of the vehicle being curved and the door glass conforming to the curvature of the outer surface of a vehicle body, which is continuously formed by the outer surfaces of the door glass and the door frame.

Construction of door in motor vehicle

A vehicle door comprising a door section having a door panel and a window frame, wherein the door panel includes an inner housing extending between an exterior and an interior of the vehicle. A door glass is slidably mounted between the window frame and the inner housing. The door glass has an arcuate configuration when viewed in cross section in the direction of the length of the vehicle and defines a projected normal arc of curvature corresponding to the arcuate configuration of the door glass when the door glass is in a closed position. The projected normal arc of curvature extends downward from a closed position of the door glass. A guide channel is provided for guiding the door between the closed position and an open position. The guide channel defines an actual arc of curvature when viewed in cross section in the direction of the length of the vehicle, which is displaced radially inwardly from the normal arc of curvature. Therefore, the door glass is slidably positioned to be closer to the interior of the vehicle when slid to an open position along the guide channel than if it were slid along the projected normal arc of curvature.

A vehicle door comprising a door section having a door panel and a window frame, wherein the door panel includes an inner housing extending between an exterior and an interior of the vehicle. Forward and rearward guide channels are secured to the door panel and extend within the inner housing and the window section of the door. Guide members connected to a door glass ride within the forward and rearward channels and include attachment members secured to the door glass for positioning the door glass in response to movement of the guide members within the forward and rearward channels. Forward and rearward brackets are attached to the window frame and include weather seals extending between the bracket and the door glass. A housing supporting a mirror is mounted on the vehicle door and extends along the forward bracket. The housing is mounted so that the forward guide channels are positioned between the forward bracket and the mirror, in order to prevent an obstructed view of the mirror by a vehicle occupant.

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Toyota, Japan

Kenji Ono