Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Nippon Steel Corporation

Ntt Data Sanyo System Corporation

Koichi Hiramatsu

Yoshiaki Kadoma

Isao Nojiri

Kazuyuki Kawano

Akiyoshi Yamamoto

Tsutomu Haeno

Koji Okamura

Atsushi Saito

Hiroo Ishibashi

Koji Kurozumi

Shinya Mizuno

Kazuyuki Hattori

Syunsaku Takeuchi

Nobuyuki Nagai

Itsuro Hiroshige

Tadanori Okada

Tomoyuki Fujita

Kazuki Sugi

Kyoichi Mano

Osamu Honda

Kouichi Sato

Kenji Shikata

Takao Uchimura

Ken Miwa

Yasuhito Suuchi

The present disclosure provides a collision energy absorbing apparatus capable of suppressing a peak load at the initial stage of a collision and a load drop immediately after it. The collision energy absorbing apparatus is an apparatus that absorbs collision energy, the apparatus being mounted on a vehicle and including a pressure member, an absorbing member, and a guide part that guides, a moving direction of the pressure member, in which a hole through which the pressure member guided and moved by the guide part enters is formed in the absorbing member, and in an event of a collision, the pressure member is guided by the guide part and a tip part of the pressure member enters the hole formed in the absorbing member while shearing an inner wall of the hole, to thereby absorb collision energy.

Collision energy absorbing apparatus

A method for fixing a steering support capable of improving efficiency when the steering support is fixed to an instrument panel reinforcement body is provided. The method for fixing the steering support according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes processes of: passing an instrument panel reinforcement body through a first through-hole formed in a steering support; and increasing the pressure inside an area of the instrument panel reinforcement body covered with the steering support, plastically deforming the area of the instrument panel reinforcement body from an inside to an outside, and pressing a circumferential surface of the first through-hole of the steering support by an outer circumferential surface of the area of the instrument panel reinforcement body.

Method for fixing steering support, device for fixing steering support, and method for checking deformation of instrument panel reinforcement body

To provide an impact absorbing member that can be arranged flexibly in accordance with the shape of the space where the impact absorbing member is to be arranged. An impact absorbing member according to an exemplary aspect has a plurality of structural members each having hollow tetrahedron structures arranged continuously at prescribed intervals on an axis. Further, an impact absorbing member according to another exemplary aspect has a plurality of structural members woven by a connecting member that is disposed in a direction orthogonal to an axial direction of the structural members.

Impact absorbing member and method for manufacturing impact absorbing member

A manufacturing method for a muffler includes: a trimming step, of cutting out a dogleg shaped muffler body member; a bending processing step of processing the muffler body member into a tube by advancing the muffler body member between an upper roller and a lower roller of a bending machine while adjusting an advancing direction with a guide and by changing a relative position of the upper roller and the lower roller; a first joining step of joining two ends of the tubularly-processed muffler body member in a long side direction; an insertion step of inserting an inner structural member into the inside of the tubularly-processed muffler body member; a second joining step of joining caps to opening portions of the tubularly-processed muffler body member; and a third joining step of joining an air intake joint and an exhaust pipe to the sealed muffler body member.

Muffler and its corresponding manufacturing method

A stereoscopic image display apparatus which can accurately visually recognize all the regions of a stereoscopic image without using a varifocal lens, and can form a natural three-dimensional image on a retina with a processing load on a computer eased even if an image is viewed by a plurality of viewers from any positions. A stereoscopic image display apparatus for generating a stereoscopic image that forms three-dimensional image on a retina of a viewer and displaying it, wherein a critical parallax that is the boundary of parallax capable of forming a three-dimensional image on a retina of a viewer is calculated, the dimensions of rectangular parallelepiped inscribing a sphere having a diameter as the calculated critical parallax are calculated, a space including an object is divided into a plurality of spaces using the calculated rectangular parallelepiped, a stereoscopic image of the object with respect to a single gazing point is generated for each divided space, and the plurality of generated stereoscopic images are pasted together to generate a single stereoscopic image and display the generated single stereoscopic image.

Stereoscopic image display apparatus, stereoscopic image displaying method and computer program product

A mold clamping apparatus includes a frame including a holding portion for holding a mold and an open portion allowing the mold to be inserted into/taken out from the holding portion in a direction of the longer side of the mold, a mold moving device for moving the mold to insert/take out the mold into/from the holding portion through the open portion in the frame, and a mold opening/closing device for opening/closing the mold located outside the frame. This mold clamping apparatus is capable of holding the mold securely in a closed state resisting a pressure acting to open the mold and allows reduction of energy consumption, equipment maintenance cost, production cost, and the size thereof.

Mold clamping apparatus and mold clamping method

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Koichi Hiramatsu