Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Makoto Aki

Takashi Hasegawa

Takuya Nezaki

Yusuke Mase

Jiro Ohachi

Masato Kunisada

Takashi Fujinami

Katsunori Yamada

Mitsuaki Gotoh

Yoichiro Tanigawa

In a vehicle seat equipped with a far-side airbag device, an inner side frame is disposed inside a side part of a seat back that is a part on a center side in a vehicle width direction. An inflator, and a side airbag that inflates and deploys toward a vehicle front side when gas is supplied from the inflator housed inside, are mounted on an outer side in the vehicle width direction relative to the inner side frame. Here, a support part that extends farther toward the vehicle front side than a front end, in a vehicle front-rear direction, of an outer side frame provided inside a side part of the seat back that is a part on the outer side in the vehicle width direction, is disposed at a front end, in the vehicle front-rear direction, of the inner side frame.

Structure of seat equipped with far-side airbag device

A variable force limiter control system for a vehicle includes a variable force limiter mechanism, a relative speed sensor, an acceleration sensor and an electronic control unit. The variable force limiter mechanism is configured to change a force limiter load. The relative speed sensor is configured to detect a relative speed of the vehicle with respect to a collision object before a collision. The acceleration sensor is configured to detect an acceleration of the vehicle. The electronic control unit is configured to predict a severity of a collision on the basis of at least the relative speed. The electronic control unit is configured to control the force limiter load on the basis of both the predicted severity and the acceleration in an initial stage of the collision of the vehicle.

Variable force limiter control system for vehicle

It is an object of the present invention to provide a roof carrier structure capable of reducing the amount of movement of a roof carrier for a vehicle during the rapid acceleration or deceleration of the vehicle. In order to achieve this object, there is provided a roof carrier mounting structure for mounting a roof carrier on a member to which a roof carrier is mounted of a vehicle, comprising a roof carrier; and an inclined portion formed on the roof carrier and inclined to gradually approach or move away from a member to which a roof carrier is mounted in a longitudinal direction of a vehicle for converting inertia force acting on the vehicle in the longitudinal direction into a fastening force for fastening the roof carrier to the member to which a roof carrier is mounted.

Roof carrier mounting structure

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Makoto Aki