Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited

Nihon Plast Co., Ltd.

Tadashi Inazu

Takashi Honda

Takeru Fukuda

Nobuyuki Hidaka

Takashi Nakamura

Takeshi Kai

Kohei Okimoto

Tatsuya Terauchi

Tsutomu Fukui

Masaru Shinmura

Taro Shimizu

Kenichi Kamio

Seiichi Hara

Tatsuhiko Nakamura

Kiminobu Tabata

Kouzaburou Nakai

In order for a core metal member having three spoke parts to be usable in a three-spoke steering wheel and a two-spoke steering wheel having one fewer spoke part than the three-spoke steering wheel, one of the spoke parts of the core metal member is a separable spoke part, which is separable along separation marks provided on vertical spokes forming the separable spoke part. Each vertical spoke constituting the separable spoke part is provided with an indented first fragile portion and an indented second fragile portion which also act as the separation marks.

Vehicle steering wheel

This curtain-type airbag apparatus is provided with: an airbag which is arranged along a top edge of a vehicle body and develops in a curtain-shape manner along an inside of a window; and an inner cover which covers a vehicle interior side of the airbag. The inner cover is supported by the vehicle body via a hinge member having a reversed U-shape.

Curtain-type airbag apparatus and airbag module

An airbag apparatus equipped with an airbag, a garnish, a hinge, a protector and a bracket fixed to a vehicle body. An upper side of the garnish is supported by the bracket via the hinge. An engaging part protruding from the lower part of a garnish main part is engaged with an engagement receiving part disposed at the protector. Normally, the engaging part is engaged with the engagement receiving part, thereby retaining the shape of the garnish. On expansion of the airbag, the airbag presses the engaging part, by which the engaging part is disengaged from the engagement receiving part, and the garnish is opened smoothly. The airbag can be covered with the garnish, thereby allowing the garnish to move smoothly on expansion of the airbag.

Airbag apparatus

In a back portion of a seat back provided with a lumbar support portionand a side support portiona seat back coverfor covering a back face of the seat back is provided. The seat back coveris provided with a side portionfor covering an air bag moduleby making a forward end portion, which is extended to the front side of a vehicle, come into contact with the side support portionThe side support portionis provided being capable of oscillating to the front side of the vehicle with respect to the lumbar supportAn air bag moduleis arranged in an accommodation spaceprovided on the rear side of the side support portion

Seat for vehicle use

A curtain airbag apparatus is provided with a bag disposed along the upper edge of an opening of a vehicle body in a folded state, a plurality of protectors disposed along a lengthwise direction of the bag, which prevent the bag from interfering with the vehicle body; and brackets intervening between the bag and the vehicle body, which attach the bag to the vehicle body and support the protectors, wherein protectors adjacent to each other are spaced from each other in the lengthwise direction of the bag.

Curtain airbag apparatus

A connector includes two housings coupled with each other to hold a cable therebetween. One of the housings includes a cable receiving portion for receiving the cable, a restricting portion adjacent to the cable receiving portion, a first wall portion formed outside the restricting portion and defining a space between the first wall portion and the restricting portion, and a first engaging portion inwardly protruding from the first wall portion. Another of the housings includes a cable pressing portion for pressing the cable towards the cable receiving portion and the restricting portion, and a second wall portion formed adjacent to the cable pressing portion and inserted into the space. The second wall portion has a second engaging portion extending outward from the second wall portion. The first and the second engaging potions are engaged with each other to prevent the housings from separating from each other.

Connector in which two housings holding a cable are firmly engaged with each other

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Wako, Japan

Tadashi Inazu