Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Jfe Steel Corporation

Nihon Plast Co., Ltd.

Ryosuke Matsuoka

Kenichi Noda

Shuichiro Yamamoto

Satoru Nagamoto

Atsushi Goto

Shigeru Unami

Hiroshi Uematsu

Yuya Kishimoto

Kiyoshi Yajima

Hiroyuki Yamamoto

Shirena Takai

Kenichi Kamio

Hiroyasu Taniguchi

Tomoaki Hosobe

Norio Mugikura

Kohsuke Ashizuka

Hanako Shimamoto

Toshinori Tsukagoshi

Hajime Mochizuki

Osamu Tsuchiya

Hideaki Kanazawa

Michihiro Hoshijima

Takaki Nakajima

Takashi Mogami

Jun Sugikawa

Omer Halilhodzic

Masashi Yamaguchi

A center console includes an article placement portion, a front block portion, a rear block portion, a bridge portion, an inclination wall, and a terminal connection port. The front block portion is arranged at a forward position of the article placement portion. The rear block portion is arranged at a rearward position of the article placement portion. The bridge portion is provided on the front block portion and the rear block portion. The bridge portion is arranged above the article placement portion to interpose a space portion and has a width in a vehicle width direction which is narrower than that of the article placement portion. The inclination wall is arranged on a front section of the article placement portion and is inclined to a vehicle forward side toward an upward direction. The terminal connection port is arranged on the inclination wall. The terminal connection port is arranged at a position that does not overlap the bridge portion in a top view.

Vehicle center console

A mixed powder for powder metallurgy comprises: an iron-based powder; and a lubricant, wherein the lubricant consists of a low-melting-point lubricant having a melting point of 86° C. or less and a high-melting-point lubricant having a melting point of more than 86° C., the low-melting-point lubricant has at least one of an amide group, an ester group, an amino group, and a carboxyl group, a ratio R1 of the low-melting-point lubricant to whole of the lubricant is 5 mass % or more and less than 90 mass %, a ratio R2 of a mass of a free lubricant to a mass of a binding lubricant is 0 or more and 15 or less, and an amount R3 of the low-melting-point lubricant contained as the free lubricant is less than 0.10 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the iron-based powder.

Mixed powder for powder metallurgy

Automobile grill

Automobile rear tailgate

Front end portion of an automobile

Automobile

Tailgate for an automobile

A machine tool assembling apparatus and a method of assembling a machine tool using the machine tool assembling apparatus are provided. The machine tool assembling apparatus includes a table, a first support mechanism having an arm which is swingable toward and away from the table, and a second support mechanism. The first support mechanism is disposed between the table and the second support mechanism. The first support mechanism is rotated to bring the arm into facing relation to either the table or the second support mechanism.

Machine tool assembling apparatus and method of assembling machine tool using machine tool assembling apparatus

An apparatus for viewing an oblique forward area of a vehicle whereby light incident from outside a passenger compartment is prevented from reflecting. The apparatus includes a sub-window pane supported by a front pillar and a sub-pillar, a mirror housing of a door mirror for displaying a rear of the vehicle, and a first reflective mirror for displaying an area in front and to one side of the vehicle. The first reflective mirror is provided to the mirror housing. The apparatus also includes a second reflective mirror for reflecting the light reflected by the first reflective mirror toward a driver. The sub-window pane is disposed further toward the outside in a vehicle widthwise direction than a line passing over cross-sectional vehicle-widthwise direction centers of the front pillar and the sub-pillar. An outside edge of the second reflective mirror is positioned in the vicinity of the sub-window pane.

Apparatus for viewing oblique forward area of vehicle

Pillar garnish () has: a fixation section () integrally provided on its rear wall section () adjacent to a vehicle occupant's seat (), the fixation section being mounted to a portion () of the pillar () facing the occupant's seat; and a swing preventing section () provided on a side wall section () of the garnish forwardly of the fixation section for preventing the garnish from swinging about the fixation section, the side wall section () extending from the rear wall section toward a front wall section of the pillar for covering the inner side surface () of the pillar. The pillar is accommodated in an area () between a front edge portion () of the side wall section and the lateral outward end () of the rear wall section with a closed-sectional-shape section () of the pillar sandwiched therebetween.

Vehicle pillar garnish

An underfloor storage structure for a vehicle () includes a floor panel (P) having a plane portion and a concave portion (), a floor lid () for selectively closing and opening the concave portion (), a floor bucket () provided in the concave portion () in a detachable manner; and a tray () disposed in the floor bucket (), which is rotatable in a plane that is substantially parallel to the plane portion of the floor panel (P).

Underfloor storage structure for vehicle

Automobile front end

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Tokyo, Japan

Ryosuke Matsuoka