Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Fujikura Limited

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Other

Nec Corporation

Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited

Ts Tech Co., Ltd.

Jae Hirosaki, Ltd.

Nobuhiro Koyota

Naotaka Kumakiri

Mikihito Kojima

Kazutomo Isonaga

Masashi Yoshifuku

Tsutomu Fukui

Takashi Furukawa

Toyohiko Shindo

Takahiro Ishii

Tetsuya Kawahira

Tsutomu Terasaki

Makoto Nagai

Takashi Inou

Harutomi Nishide

Yoshitaka Suzuki

Koichi Kamiji

Takashi Saito

Kazunori Jinno

Satoshi Baba

Masahiro Ofuji

Takashi Inoh

Kenji Kumagai

Shigeru Endo

Tatsuya Yamazaki

Eiji Toba

Yasufumi Hayashi

Naoto Ishii

Yoshitaka Oka

Takashi Yanagihara

Kouichi Kamiji

Terumi Nakaya

Masaaki Yasuda

Seiji Takaya

Mitsugu Tosa

A thin, film-form seating switch able to detect whether an occupant sits on the seat or not, wherein, with a spacer () in-between, a film-form substrate () is disposed on one surface of the spacer and a film-form member () on the other surface, a first conductor () equipped with a first terminal () and a first electrode (A) conductive with this and a second conductor () equipped with a second terminal () and a second electrode (A) conductive with this are fixed to one surface of the film-form substrate, and a third conductor (A) for letting the first electrode conduct with the second electrode when an occupant is seated is fixed to the film-form member (). The above arrangement solves a conventional problem that it is troublesome to connect the connection terminals of wires or the like provided on a wiring harness or the like to respective terminals that are separately provided on a film-form substrate and a film-form member.

Seating detection switch

There is disclosed a seat that comprises a trim cover including a sheet of covering material and a wadding layer, a padding member covered with the cover, a seating surface section formed by a portion of the cover and a portion of the padding member, and electric or electronic equipment, the equipment including planar equipment bodies and accessories, the wadding layer including a first wadding member laminated onto the entire sheet, and second wadding members formed separately from the first wadding member and mounted to predetermined regions of the portion of the padding member which forms the seating surface section in cooperation with the portion of the cover, the bodies being disposed on the second wadding members, and the padding member being covered by the cover in such a manner that the second wadding members having the bodies disposed thereon are combined with the first wadding member.

Seat provided with electric or electronic equipment

A seat-weight sensor includes a load cell having a load sensor arranged therein and a support for holding a support shaft of the load cell. The support includes a convex portion to hold the support shaft and a pair of flange portions arranged at both sides of the convex portion and fixed to a vehicle floor side. The support has a pair of slots arranged at a perimeter of the convex portion and for reducing a physical effect that the pair of flanges provides to the convex portion.

Seat-weight sensor support for reducing physical effects

An occupant detection system includes: a front weight sensor group formed from two weight sensors that are connected in series and arranged to the left and right on an upper face of a seat cushion; and a rear weight sensor group formed from two weight sensors that are connected in series and arranged to the left and right on the upper face of the seat cushion. The weight sensor groups are connected in parallel to each other. Regardless of whether an occupant sits on a front or rear part of a seat, since the load of the buttocks always acts on both left and right sides of the seat cushion, two series-connected left and right weight sensors of at least one of the plurality of weight sensor groups are both turned on without fail, thereby reliably detecting the occupant.

Occupant detection system

In a connector to be connected to a cable having a core wire, a retainer is fitted into a rear portion of an insulator holding a contact. The core wire is crimped by a wire crimping barrel formed to the contact. The cable is clamped in cooperation with the retainer and the insulator and extracted through the rear portion of the insulator. In addition, the contact has a locking barrel. On the other hand, the retainer includes a locking portion which is engaged with the locking barrel to prevent the contact from being released rearward from the insulator.

Cable connector having a retainer which serves to hold a cable, to protect a connecting portion, and to prevent undesirable releasing of a contact

An occupant detection system, includes a sensor, a controller, a base frame, and a heat insulator. In this occupant detection system, the sensor measures a weight of an occupant sitting on the vehicle seat. The controller detects a presence of the occupant on the vehicle seat. The base frame is fixed to one of a vehicle seat or a vehicle body and accommodates the sensor. The heat insulator is provided on the base frame and prevents a heat transfer between the base frame and the sensor.

An occupant position detection system includes a distance sensor located on a seat back of a seat of a vehicle, an angle sensor for sensing an inclined angle of the seat back , and a sliding displacement sensor for sensing a sliding displacement value of the seat in fore and aft directions, wherein an occupant position is detected on the basis of sensed values of the distance sensor , the angle sensor and the sliding displacement sensor

Occupant position detection system

A sheet-shaped sensor body includes a first protective layer formed of a resist paste layer, an antenna film formed of a PET film, a first conductive layer formed of a silver layer, a second conductive layer formed of a carbon layer, a second protective layer formed of a resist paste layer and a hot-melt film, which are laminated one on another in sequence. When the hot-melt film of the sensor body is brought into abutment against a front surface of a wadding previously adhered to a pad of a seat back and is then heat-pressed, the sensor body is fixed firmly and reliably to the wadding by an adhesive force generated by the melted hot-melt film once it again cools and solidified. Thus, the sensor of an occupant detecting system for detecting the physical constitution and the attitude of an occupant sitting on a seat can be fixed easily and reliably to the seat back.

Occupant detecting system

A passenger detecting system includes a plurality of antenna electrodes provided in a seat, a signal generating section, a detecting section, a switching circuit and a control unit. The signal generating section generates an electrode signal. The switching circuit sequentially supplies the electrode signal to the plurality of antenna electrodes one by one in response to a switching control signal. The detecting section detects change of the electrode signal to generate a detection signal when the electrode signal is supplied to each of the plurality of antenna electrodes. The control unit outputs the switching control signal to the switching circuit and generates a passenger data associated with a passenger on the seat based on the detection signal for each of the plurality of antenna electrodes.

Passenger detecting system and air bag system using the same

A high-frequency generating circuit is connected to six electrode fabrics embedded in a seat back of an assistant driver's seat. Output current flowing at the time when a human body approaches the electrode fabrics is detected. It is determined whether an occupant is an adult or a child, by comparing patterns of the output current which correspond to the six electrode fabrics with a first threshold value and a second threshold value to detect the positions of the head, neck and shoulder of the occupant. When the occupant is a child having a short sitting height, the operation of an air bag device is prohibited upon collision of a vehicle, and a warning lamp is lit to move the occupant to a rear seat.

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Saitama, Japan

Nobuhiro Koyota