Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Ikeda Bussan Co. Ltd.

Shinji Hamada

Nobuo Matsumoto

Kiichiro Sakamoto

Shinichi Ichikawa

Junichi Tabata

Fumio Miyauchi

Tomohisa Tago

Masayoshi Chihaya

Osami Tsuji

Masaru Imai

Fumio Hoshino

Yoshimoto Tanase

An air bag device comprises an air bag. The bag has a mouth portion which includes first and second outside sewed parts and a center non-sewed part. Each outside sewed part is provided by sewing mutually facing side end sections of the mouth portion and the center non-sewed part includes two mutually facing center end sections each having bolt openings. An elongate gas generator has bolts extending therefrom. The gas generator is substantially entirely received in the mouth portion having the bolts exposed to the outside through the bolt openings of the two mutually facing center end sections. A housing is employed for receiving a unit including the air bag and the gas generator. The housing has bolt openings through which the bolts pass. Nuts are engaged with the bolts to secure the unit to the housing.

Air bag device and method of producing same

An airbag restraint unit for protecting a vehicle passenger from application of impact in the event of a serious vehicle collision. The airbag restraint unit having a gas generator storage container, as a sealed container in which a generally cylindrical gas generator is disposed. An airbag is sealingly and securely attached to the storage container in such a manner that high pressure gas from the gas generator is introduced into the airbag in the event of the vehicle collision. The storage container is provided at its inside with support sections for the gas generator, projecting inside the storage container. During assembly of the unit, the gas generator is inserted into the storage container through a hole formed in a side end wall of the storage container and slidingly moved toward an opposite side end wall upon contacting with the support sections. The gas generator is provided at its tip end with a bolt section which is fixed to the side end wall with a nut so that the gas generator is fixed in position.

Airbag restraint unit

An air-bag device comprises an air-bag proper, an air-bag housing structure for receiving the air-bag proper, and inflating device for inflating the air-bag proper under a given condition. The air-bag housing structure has an easily breakable portion which is pushed and broken by the air-bag proper when the air-bag proper is inflated. An air-bag projection sheet is employed, which protects the air-bag proper from making a direct abutment with the easily breakable portion upon inflation of the air-bag proper.

Air-bag device including protective sheet

An airbag restraint system for protecting a vehicle passenger in the event of a vehicle serious collision. An airbag of this system is usually folded compactly and is covered with a generally box-shaped cover member. The cover member has openings at the central portion and the side center portion of a rectangular top surface of the cover member. A plurality of thin portions, which are thinner in thickness than that of the main portion, are formed along the center line parallel to the long side of the top surface and along every sides of the top surface. In the event of the vehicle serious collision, the cover member is easily broken from the end of the thin portion defining the opening.

Cover for an airbag assembly

An airbag restraint system for protecting a vehicle passenger in the event of a serious vehicle collision. The airbag is comprised of an airbag which is adapted to inflate upon being supplied with gas from a gas generator. The airbag includes a bag-shaped section which has generally circular rear and front side sheet members which are joined together at their peripheral portions to define a gas chamber to be filled with the gas from the gas generator. A plurality of suspension belts are disposed inside the bag-shaped section. One end of each suspension belt is sewed to a belt catch member which is in turn sewed to the central part of the rear side sheet member, thereby forming a sewed section. The sewed section extends linearly and includes a straightly extending portion which is generally perpendicular to a lenghwise direction of each suspension belt.

Airbag restraint system

A method for transferring an image from an image sheet to an image-receiving sheet while the sheets are superposed, and an apparatus therefor. A support plate of good thermal conductivity and rigidity is placed against the sheets, and a cover sheet superposed remotely from the support plate. The resulting assembly is passed through a pair of heated rollers. Cooling rollers may cool the superposed sheets following image transfer. Additional cooling may be provided.

Image transfer apparatus and method

A large number of presensitized plates are stacked on a platform. The platform is controlled to lift the stack of presensitized plates so that the uppermost presensitized plate in the stack is always positioned at a predetermined level. Sucking members suck the uppermost plate and lift it away from the rest of the stack. The lifted plate is placed on a plurality of parallel endless belts and transferred to a printing section. The plate is positioned in two dimensions with respect to the printing section on the way thereto.

Presensitized plate handling device

Method and apparatus for developing and treating PS plates in which the useful life of the treatment liquid is greatly enhanced. First and second developing baths and a gum coating bath are provided with the PS plates conveyed therethrough. The plates are squeezed between the first and second developing baths to remove treatment liquid. Treatment liquid is transferred from the second to the first developing bath and discharged from the first developing bath when the liquid in the first bath is beyond the normal limit of treatment ability for a single bath system. New treatment liquid is supplied to the second bath in proportion to the amount of treatment and the lapse of time.

Method and apparatus for developing and treating PS plates

In contact-printing the image of a transmission type original on a photosensitive plate material positioned on a printing stage, the original is in advance fixed to a transparent sheet which is movable between an open position and a closed position. The original is fixed to the transparent sheet at a predetermined position thereon at which the original will be registered with the plate material when the transparent sheet is moved to its closed position. In the open position, the transparent sheet is held away from the printing stage to permit change of the plate material and in the closed position, the transparent sheet sealingly covers the plate material in a predetermined positional relationship therewith and the space under the transparent sheet is evacuated to bring the transparent sheet, the original and the plate material into close contact with each other. Then, the three members are exposed to light.

Method and device for contact-printing

A process for developing a photosensitive material, and a device therefor, are disclosed wherein an image on a photosensitive material consisting of a cover base laminated through the intermediary of a photosensitive layer to a support member is developed into a visible image by stripping the cover base from the support member. A preliminary stripping step of stripping the cover base from the support member in the leading end portion thereof is first performed. This is immediately followed by the reorientation of the leading end portion of the cover base to bring the same into registration with the support member. Therefore, a final stripping step is performed wherein the cover base is successively separated from the leading end portion thereof towards the trailing end thereof from the support member.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Shinji Hamada