Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.

Masahiro Ono

Minoru Shibata

Koki Ikeda

Kazuhiko Kato

Shigeru Yabuya

Osamu Yamanaka

Junzo Ukai

Hiroshi Sugihara

Yoshitaka Sotoyama

Hiroaki Iwamoto

Shigeru Inamori

Sho Maeda

Kazuhiro Seki

Junichiro Kako

Shuichi Koyama

Yasuhiro Aoyama

To obtain a vehicle body lower portion structure that can efficiently absorb and disperse load of a front or rear collision including an offset collision or an oblique collision, and transmit the load to an underbody. A vehicle body lower portion structure has an underbody at which a dash lower portion and a lower back portion are provided to stand from both ends in a vehicle front-rear direction at a floor portion, a suspension member the length direction thereof is along a vehicle transverse direction and is joined to the underbody in a state of planarly-contacting a front surface of the dash lower portion, and a front EA member a length direction thereof is along the vehicle transverse direction and is joined to a front wall of the suspension member.

Vehicle body lower portion structure

An interior illuminating apparatus for a vehicle includes an interior rear-view minor which is connected and fixed to an interior ceiling of the vehicle for observing the rear. An LED is provided in a vicinity of the interior rear-view mirror at a forward position in a traveling direction of the vehicle and radiates ultraviolet light on a center part of an instrument panel. An operating unit adapted to receive the ultraviolet light from the LED is provided in the center part of the instrument panel. The apparatus includes a starting switch for actuating the LED on and off. The operating unit has fluorescent layers coated thereon and containing a substance which emits fluorescence when irradiated with the ultraviolet light from the LED.

Interior illuminating apparatus for vehicle

A pedal displacement control structure for a vehicle comprising: a pedal bracket fixed to a first member of a vehicle body which is displaced to rearward of the vehicle when an external force larger than a predetermined value is exerted to the front portion of the vehicle; a suspension-type vehicle pedal having a rotation shaft which becomes a center of pivot is supported by the pedal bracket; a displacement control device for controlling the displacement of a tread of the vehicle pedal by putting a pushing force frontward of the vehicle around the rotation shaft on the vehicle pedal when the vehicle pedal is displaced to rearward of the vehicle with the displacement of the first member of the vehicle body to rearward of the vehicle, which is provided in a second member on the vehicle body having high intensity and arranged more rearward of the vehicle than the vehicle pedal; and a device for inhibiting the push-reaction force larger than a predetermined value from being transmitted to the second member on the vehicle body via the displacement control device, when the pushing force is put on the vehicle pedal from the displacement control device. Hence, the displacement of the tread of the vehicle pedal is controlled.

Pedal displacement-control structure for a vehicle

An engagement portion to be engaged with a vehicle body is formed on the lower surface of the front end of a joined portion of a defroster duct. The engagement portion is engaged with a fitting hole of a cowl panel. The joined portion of the defroster duct has a curve portion formed thereon, in which a rib of an instrument panel abuts against a duct portion of the defroster duct. When the duct portion is pressed forward of the vehicle, the curve portion elastically deforms so as to keep a blow port of the defroster duct aligned with a blow port of the instrument panel.

Defroster duct installation structure

In an air bag apparatus for a passenger seat, an air bag door has three layers: a door base member, a shell and a foam layer charged between the door base member and the shell. A groove-shaped rib is formed in a rearward end-side portion of the door base member of the air bag door. A grommet is fixed at each of the opposite ends of the rib. A strap formed of a looped resin-made cord formed by knotting the two end portions of the cord is laid in the rib, extending through the grommets. The strap is covered with a heat-shrink tube that prevents degradation of the strap due to influence of a component material of the foam layer.

Air bag apparatus for passenger seat

A console box for storing small articles includes a box body, an outer lid pivotally mounted for opening and closing the box body and an inner lid disposed between the box body and the outer lid. The box body has a first space for storing small articles. The outer lid pivots within a first angle with respect to the box body. The outer lid is box-shaped and has a second space inside. The inner lid has a third space for storing other small articles. The inner lid is located in the second space of the outer lid when the outer lid is closed. The inner lid pivots in accordance with the movement of the outer lid to a second angle that is smaller than the first angle with respect to the box body. The box body according to the present invention may have a stopper for limiting a maximum opening angle of the outer lid.

Console box

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Okazaki, Japan

Masahiro Ono