Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.

Masayuki Kitashiba

Chiharu Totani

Minoru Shibata

Katsuhiro Katagiri

Hikaru Ando

Kazuo Takeda

Junichi Fujita

Hitoshi Horibe

Yuhki Kuramitsu

Toshiro Shibagaki

Chie Ito

Provided is a vehicle lamp unit that enables a user to perceive a detection range of a sensor. A vehicle lamp unitincludes: a sensormounted at a lower part of a vehicle; and an irradiation deviceconfigured to irradiate a vehicle outer platepresent at a position corresponding to a detection range of the sensor

Vehicle lamp unit including sensor and irradiation device

A grille shutter device selectively opening and closing a grille opening in the front grille of a vehicle. The grille shutter device includes a fin, a motor, a transmission mechanism, a first switch, and a second switch. The fin has a support shaft, which is rotatably supported by the front grille. When supplied with electricity, the motor rotates its output shaft in one direction. The transmission mechanism converts the rotation of the output shaft to a swinging motion of the fin, thereby swinging the fin between a closed position, where the fin closes the grille opening, and an open position, where the fin opens the grille opening. When the fin is swung to the closed position, the first switch stops the motor. When the fin is swung to the open position, the second switch stops the motor.

Grille shutter device

A split-opening portion is formed by two transverse breakable portions that extend substantially along the transverse direction of a vehicle, two front-rear breakable portions that extend substantially along the front-rear direction of the vehicle and are connected to the transverse breakable portions, and a middle breakable portion that is located between the two transverse breakable portions and extends substantially along the transverse direction of the vehicle. The middle breakable portion is connected to the front-rear breakable portions. In a front passenger seat airbag apparatus, the split-opening portion is broken by pressing force of an inflated airbag so that door portions are separated from the door adjacent portion, and the door support portions are pivoted together with the door portions about hinge portions serving as fulcrums. The breaking strengths of parts of the split-opening portion are varied such that is broken in the order of the transverse breakable portions, the front-rear breakable portions, and the middle breakable portion.

Front passenger seat airbag apparatus

A front doorincludes a first door componentand a second door component. The first door componentforms an inner side portion of a door main body, and the second door component forms an inner side portion of the door main bodyand has functional parts located inside the vehicle. The first and second door componentshave honeycomb structural bodies, respectively. The honeycomb structural bodiesare entirely formed of synthetic resin. The honeycomb structural bodiesinclude honeycomb portions, which are composed of numerous tubular cellsseparated by partition walls, and sealing plate portionsthat are located on the outer side and the inner side of the honeycomb portionsand seal the cells. The door componentsare joined to each other at least at a part of the adjacent sealing plate portionsof the honeycomb structural bodies

Vehicle door

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Kiyosu, Japan

Masayuki Kitashiba