Ikeda Bussan Co. Ltd.

Manabu Sakamoto

Akira Kuwabara

Koichi Iwasaki

Hiroaki Kudo

Yoshifumi Kanai

Takeshi Okusau

A moveable headrest is equipped with a lower headrest frame shaft fixedly connected to a headrest stay detachably connected to the upper end of the seat back, and a pair of ratchet bases rotatably supported on respective shaft ends of the lower frame shaft. The ratchet bases are coupled with each other at their upper ends through a moveable upper headrest frame. A ratchet-and-pawl mechanism is attached to at least one of the base members for selectively engaging the upper frame with the lower frame shaft and for producing a forward-and-backward angular adjustment of the headrest. The shaft end of the lower frame shaft is formed with an annular stepped portion extending continuously in a peripheral direction of the lower frame shaft nearby the top end, so that the annular stepped portion abuts the inside wall surface of the ratchet base. A pawl bracket is fixedly connected to the shaft end of the lower frame shaft by all-around welding, while sandwiching the ratchet base between the stepped portion and the pawl bracket.

Moveable headrest

An interior finishing web for a motor vehicle or the like comprises three fibrous layers which are put one another, needled together and subjected to a hot-molding to constitute a shaped structure of the web. The three fibrous layers are a first fibrous layer which includes approximately 30 to 90% by weight of polyester fibers and approximately 70 to 10% by weight of polypropylene fibers, a second fibrous layer which includes approximately 10 to 60% by weight of polyester fibers and approximately 90 to 40% by weight of polypropylene fibers and a third fibrous layer which includes approximately 40 to 90% by weight of polyester fibers and approximately 60 to 10% by weight of polypropylene fibers.

Interior finishing web and method of producing the same

A reversible-lid arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a floor panel having an opening, a lid member, and a pair of oppositely-arranged guide rails. The lid member is so sized as to close the opening, and has first and second side surfaces which are opposed to each other. The lid member has first and second projections which are formed on the first side surface and spaced away from each other with a certain predetermined distance therebetween, and third and fourth projections which are formed on the second side surface and spaced away from each other with the predetermined distance therebetween. The guide rails are so sized and spaced away from each other as to fit therein the first, second, third and fourth projections of the lid member. Each guide rail has first and second notches each of which is so sized as to allow one of the first, second, third and fourth projections to pass therethrough, and so positioned as to expose the one of the first, second, third and fourth projections when the opening of the floor panel is fully closed by the lid member. Thus, the lid member can be easily and quickly turned upside down without requiring much space.

Reversible-lid arrangement

A structure for fixing a carpet on a vehicular floor panel includes an elongate retainer for retaining the carpet on the floor panel, and a covering member for covering a front end portion of the carpet and a front end portion of the retainer. The retainer is detachably fixed to the floor panel and located below the carpet to be concealed by the carpet. The front end portion of the carpet and the front end portion of the retainer are sewn together with the covering member, such that the carpet is secured at its front end portion thereof to the retainer.

Structure for fixing carpet on vehicular floor panel

A hinge mechanism for joining a lid of a box with a fixed member and allowing the lid to pivot relative to the fixed member includes a rod and a guiding member which guides the movement of the rod. The rod is secured to the lid. The guiding member is secured to the fixed member which is fixed relative to the box. The lid is placed on a substantially horizontal top hem portion of the box and has a lower peripheral edge portion thereof which is in contact with the top hem portion and located near the fixed member and serves as a fulcrum of the pivotal movement of the lid. The guiding member has an envelope portion thereof for defining an enclosed space for receiving the rod therein. The enclosed space is so sized as to allow the rod to slide smoothly therein.

Hinge mechanism

A sunshade assembly incorporated with a sun roof construction is disclosed, which comprises a shading panel slidable forward and rearward to close and open an opening of a ceiling panel placed below a roof of a vehicle, a holding structure arranged to stably hold the shading panel relative to the ceiling panel when the shading panel assumes a position to close the opening, and a slide shoe connected to the shading panel and having a contact portion which is in contact with an upper surface of the ceiling panel. The slide shoe is so sized and constructed as to prevent the shading panel from abutting against the ceiling panel. The contact portion of the slide shoe is coated with a plastic to reduce a contact resistance between the contact portion and the upper surface of the ceiling panel.

Sunshade assembly of motor vehicle

A luggage carpet laid over a luggage room floor of a motor vehicle and rear surface of a seat back of a seat located adjacent to the luggage room. The portions of the carpet located at a region extending substantially along and in the vicinity of a boundary between the seat back and the luggage room floor have respective surface areas disposed in opposition to each other on a same surface of the carpet, said portions being joined together at respective ends in said opposite surface areas to form at least a hinge.

Luggage carpet for motor vehicle

A molding device for molding or shaping a plastically moldable sheet includes a lower mold having a recess which extends along an inner wall of the lower mold, an upper mold having a raised portion which is neatly received in the recess of the lower mold when the upper mold is properly seated on the lower mold to press the sheet, and a sheet mover including a rotatable member which is rotatably arranged on the outer wall of the lower mold and partially exposed to the recess of the lower mold.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Manabu Sakamoto