The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.

Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha

Nhk Spring Co., Ltd.

Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc.

Furukawa Electronics Co., Ltd.

Naobumi Kuboki

Takayuki Enomoto

Takuya Nishimoto

Kyosuke Hashimoto

Hiroyo Okamura

Katsutoshi Sasaki

Noritsugu Enomoto

Takenobu Yabu

Hiroshi Matsunaga

Atsuo Matsumoto

Hiroaki Nishiguma

Masato Miyahara

Takashi Takeshita

Ko Masuda

Shoichi Negami

Shinichi Horibata

Masanobu Sato

Shigeki Motomura

Yuji Tokiwa

Norio Kawashima

Yuji Niikura

Takehide Ikeda

Yasuhiro Arima

Hirokazu Takewaki

Kenichi Shibata

Kenji Kondo

Yoshisada Sano

The present invention has an object of providing a connection structure capable of easily connecting an LED component to a flat cable. An LED unitincludes an upper casea pierce terminala lower caseand an intermediate terminalAn LED chipis pressed to the pierce terminalby a convexed springto electrically connect the LED chipto the flat cableConductorsincluded in the flat cableare formed of phosphor bronze formed of tin (Sn), phosphorus (P), copper (Cu) and unavoidable impurities and having a tensile strength of 480 to 550 MPa, whereas a pierce plateof the pierce terminalpiercing through the conductoris formed of a copper alloy, which is a high strength conductive member having a higher strength than that of the conductorand having conductivity.

Connection structure connecting an LED component

A seat belt connector assembly is provided with a seat belt anchor adapted to be coupled to a passenger seat and a cover for accommodating an upper part of the seat belt anchor. The seat belt anchor and the cover, which are relatively movable, are each formed with a seat-belt insertion hole permitting a seat belt to pass therethrough, and are formed with a mark and a through hole, respectively. When the desired relative position permitting the desired tension force to be applied to the seat belt is established between the seat belt anchor and the cover, the mark is made visible through the through hole.

Seat belt connector assembly

In a vehicle seat, a central support member typically consisting of wire mesh or grid and supports most of the load of the vehicle occupant via spring members, and undergoes a relatively large displacement when the occupant is seated in the seat. Thus, by detecting the displacements of various parts of the central support member, preferably peripheral parts thereof, the magnitude of the total load and distribution of the load can be evaluated both reliably and accurately. Additionally, displacement sensors for measuring such large displacements are relatively inexpensive and easy to handle. Also, such sensors would not interfere with the existing seat designs, and would not be adversely affected by the equipment of the seat such as seat heaters.

Vehicle seat incorporated with an occupant sensor

A film pressure sensor to be interposed between a cover of an automotive seating equipment and a seat cushion material thereof and used suitably for measuring pressure to be applied to the seating equipment. A temperature sensing area ( ) for sensing the temperature of a pressure sensing area ( ) is formed on an insulating film ( or ) of the film pressure sensor ( ) using a substance whose electrical resistance changes depending on the temperature. Errors in pressure measurement to be caused by change in the temperature can be reduced or removed by utilizing the temperature determined by the temperature sensing area ( ).

Film pressure sensor

A passenger detecting apparatus determines the presence of a passenger or an object, such as a child seat, in a seat unit, estimates the weight of the passenger or determines the build of the passenger, thereby improving the usability of peripheral devices of a seat. The passenger detecting apparatus has a dielectric sensor ( ) and a pressure-sensitive sensor ( ) in a seat cushion ( ) and detects the presence of a passenger or an object on a seat based on their outputs, or has a dielectric sensor and a pressure-sensitive sensor in the seat cushion and a dielectric sensor ( ) in the back rest and an angle sensor ( ) for detecting an angle defined by the seat cushion and the back rest and determines the build of a passenger based on their outputs.

Passenger detecting apparatus

A seating sensor is provided on a seat back part and/or a seat cushion part of a seat in use for a vehicle such as an automobile, and calculates physical conditions, such as a height and weight of an occupant, to judge whether the subject on the seat is a human or an object. On the basis of the results of such calculation and judgement, the operation of an air bag is controlled. The seating sensor includes a sensing element which is variable in its electric resistance in response to the pressure variation, and the pressing force is detected on the basis of the variation of the electric resistance value.

Seat fitted with seating sensor, seating detector and air bag device

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Naobumi Kuboki