Nissan Motor Company Limited

Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Fuji Kiko Co., Ltd.

Shigeo Fukuda

Hiroyuki Hasebe

Nobuyasu Negishi

Koichi Kawamura

Fumiyuki Abe

Chusaku Yamanashi

Motoi Goto

According to one embodiment, a fuel cell includes an electric-power generator, a fuel distribution mechanism, and a pump. The electric-power generator includes a membrane electrode assembly including an anode, a cathode, and an electrolytic membrane. The fuel distribution mechanism includes a container and a thin tube. The container includes a fuel discharge surface, and contains the electric-power generator inside. The thin tube is formed in the container in a manner that a fuel outlet and a fuel inlet communicate with each other. The pump is connected directly to the fuel inlet.

Fuel cell

A seat belt retractor with a tension eliminator is provided with a ratchet wheel arrangement which acts as a position memory upon closing of a buckle switch and which is responsive to the belt webbing being drawn off the reel of the retractor by a seat occupant leaning forward beyond a predetermined distance, the wheel being rotated via an internal/planetary gear arrangement, proportionally to the excess distance whereupon the webbing can be retracted only said predetermined distance inducing a degree of tension eliminating slack in the webbing upon return of the occupant to the position in which he or she buckles the seat belt.

Seat belt retractor with tension eliminator

A child restraining seat is hung securely on a back portion of a vehicle occupant seat that has mounted therein a seating sensor, such that a child, if restrained to the child seat, will not close or energize the seating sensor. The seating sensor is circuited in a trigger circuit of an air bag corresponding to the occupant seat such that the air bag will not be inflated to its active position unless said seating sensor is energized.

Child restraining seat

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Yokohama, Japan

Shigeo Fukuda