Toray Industries, Inc.

Kosaku Hashimoto

Yukitane Kimoto

Toru Yamanaka

Nobuhiko Shimizu

Yoshito Kuroda

Barry Lett

Zachary Seward

Mark Lewis

Andy Jones

Kevin Richards

Yuki Sakamoto

Gordon Murray

Frank Coppuck

Hideo Matsuoka

Toshihide Sekido

Takao Sano

Osamu Niwa

Masaru Akita

Hiroki Wakabayashi

Shigemitsu Suzuki

Tadayuki Uesugi

Takuya Inoue

This composite structure is characterized in that: an internally inserted component, which is molded from a resin material having a tensile elongation of 10% or more, is placed inside a metal member having a hollow closed cross-section such that an external load can be received by both the internally inserted component and the metal member, and the outer shape of the internally inserted component occupies 50% or more relative to the hollow closed cross-section of the metal member as projection area ratio. By disposing the resin-made internally inserted component having a specific toughness at a specified state inside the metal member having a hollow closed cross-section, especially when a collision load occurs, the metal member undergoes ductile deformation and the internally inserted component also deforms correspondingly, and thus the waveform of the load-displacement curve can approach an ideal rectangular waveform, and excellent impact energy absorbing performance can be exhibited.

Composite structure

An impact-absorbing member, wherein a formed body (D) made of a fiber-reinforced resin composition includes a polyamide resin, a rubbery polymer having a reactive functional group and a fibrous inorganic filling material is superposed on another formed body (D) made of a non-reinforced resin composition comprising a polyamide resin and a rubbery polymer having a reactive functional group, wherein the formed body (D) is disposed at an impact-receiving side.

Impact-absorbing member

A structure for a passenger vehicle interior is a structure for constituting the vehicle interior of a passenger vehicle, is formed in a monocoque structure in which the entire structure from the front side to the rear side of the vehicle interior is integrally formed by a fiber-reinforced resin, has a bowl-shaped structure part which is provided at least on the front side among the front side and the rear side of the structure and which opens toward the rear side, and has a side-wall part formed as a vertical wall that is continuous with the bowl-shaped structure part and extends in a front-rear direction of the structure, at each of both side parts of the structure, and a manufacturing method therefor.

Structure for passenger vehicle interior, and manufacturing method therefor

Automobile control panel

Passenger car

Automotive seat

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Nagoya, Japan

Kosaku Hashimoto