Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Fujikura Limited

Nhk Spring Co., Ltd.

Toyota Gosei Co., Ltd.

Takahiko Sato

Shigeru Yabuya

Osamu Fukawatase

Hiroyuki Tajima

Hiroshi Mukai

Akiyoshi Nagano

Junji Koizumi

Masakazu Hashimoto

Kenji Niwa

Etsuo Ozawa

Takeaki Kato

Yuji Shimizu

Akira Yamauchi

Hiroki Imamura

Hiroyoshi Yamaguchi

Daiichiro Kawashima

Masao Kobayashi

Koji Sakiyama

Yasunobu Teramoto

Tadanori Hisamoto

Toshikatsu Togawa

Junji Takeuchi

Kiyoshi Suenaga

Shinichi Horibata

Yoshihiro Inada

Masaomi Goto

Masanobu Tomida

Hiroshi Iwata

A center cluster panelis formed with a projected portionincluding an upper panelextended to a vehicle rear side and disposed at an uppermost portion thereof, a curved face panelconnected to a rear portion of the upper paneland directed to a vehicle front side by being bent from the connected portion, and a lower panelconnected to the curved face panel, extended to a front side and disposed on a vehicle lower side of the upper panel. The upper paneland the lower panelare formed such that respective wall thicknesses tand tare uniform. The wall thickness tof the upper panelis made to be thicker than the wall thickness tof the lower panel. The curved face panelis formed such that a wall thickness tthereof is equal to the wall thickness tof the upper panelat the portionconnected with the upper paneland formed such that the more proximate to the lower panelfrom the connected portion, the more thinned the wall thickness tgradually.

Vehicular center cluster panel

An apparatus is provided that makes it possible to make following cars aware when a door is open and simultaneously illuminate a feet area, including, a lens that is attached at a door position that faces the feet area when a vehicle door is open, and a light guide member that is attached at a door position that faces following cars. One or more LEDs for the feet area are provided on the inner side of the lens, and one or more LEDs for the rear direction are provided that irradiate light on the light guide member.

Lighting apparatus of vehicle door

In a knee protection system according to the present invention, a knee protection panel is driven from a standby position surrounded by an interior member to the vehicle rear side to a knee-protecting position in front of the knees of an occupant by a drive mechanism when the vehicle is crashing, whereby the knees moving forward are protected by the knee protection panel thus driven. The drive mechanism includes a holding portion for holding the knee protection panel in such a manner that the knee protection panel is moved rearward. Engagement portions are provided, respectively, at locations where the holding portion and the knee protection panel connect with each other in such a manner as to be brought into engagement with each other. These engagement portions are brought into engagement with each other when the holding portion is moved rearward due to the activation of the drive mechanism in such a manner as to prevent displacement of the knee protection panel relative to the holding portion while moving the knee protection panel rearward, as well as allowing the knee protection panel to be displaced vertically and horizontally relative to the holding portion prior to the activation of the drive mechanism. With the knee protection system according to the invention, the knee protection panel can be disposed at the standby position so as to have a visually attractive break with the surrounding interior member, without deteriorating mounting work efficiency.

Knee protection system

The invention provides a vehicular shock absorbing body which absorbs a shock by a grid-like rib formed on a support plate portion and can inhibit a load point at an initial stage and a terminal stage, in a load&#x2014;displacement (F-S) curve of the vehicular shock absorbing body. A shock absorbing body () used for absorbing a shock in a vehicle and made of a synthetic resin, is provided with a support plate portion (), and a shock absorbing portion () formed in a grid shape on the support plate portion () by a plurality of thin ribs (), and plastically deforming at a time of applying a shock load so as to be absorbable a shock energy. A notch (a leading end side notch)is formed between grid crossing points () in the thin rib () from a leading end side, and a notch (a root side notch)is formed from a root side of the grid crossing points () so as to include the support plate portion (), thereby inhibiting a load point from being generated at an initial stage and a terminal stage in the F-S curve.

Vehicular shock absorbing body

In the occupant protection device according to the present invention, a restraint body joined with a driving mechanism is located near a target area of a seated occupant while being surrounded by an interior decoration member. Upon predicting a collision of the vehicle, the driving mechanism is actuated to protrude the restraint body from an opening in the interior decoration member for restraining the movement of the target area upon collision by its side facing the occupant, and when the collision is avoided, the driving mechanism returns the protruded restraint body in the opening of the interior decoration member. The restraint body is provided in the vicinity of its outer periphery with a retaining hole, a clip to be inserted in and retained by the retaining hole, and a guide surface for guiding the clip into the retaining hole for helping the restraint body to return in the opening of the interior decoration member. By this guide mechanism including the retaining hole, the clip and the guide surface, the restraint body is able to return to the opening of the interior decoration member smoothly without deteriorating the appearance.

Occupant protection device

A console box of the present invention has a box main body, a pair of sidewalls, and an armrest. The box main body is located between the sidewalls, and the armrest is located above the box main body. Each sidewall has a guide groove extending in the moving direction of the vehicle. The armrest has a pair of engaging pins. Each engaging pin is engaged with and slides along one of the guide grooves. Thus, the armrest smoothly slides along the moving direction of the vehicle.

Console box

A long molded article having a skin layer composed of a thermoplastic elastomer, and a core layer coated with said skin layer which is composed of 30 to 70% by weight of a matrix phase composed of a polypropylene resin and 70 to 30% by weight of one dispersed phase selected from the group consisting of ethylene-.alpha.-olefin copolymers and styrene-based thermoplastic elastomers. According to the present invention, there can be obtained a long molded article such as a side molding for automobile, which is excellent in attractiveness after mounting, dimensional stability, etc.

Long sandwich molded article

Molded sandwich article

A orifice passage for introducing excessive resin into a disposal tab forming cavity is provided at one end of a main cavity in a mold for sandwich molding. The section of the orifice passage is thinner in the central portion than in the opposite sides thereof. A thermoplastic elastomer for forming an outer layer of the molding is injected into the main cavity and then talc-containing polypropylene for forming the core of the molding is injected. The flow rate of the resins flowing through the orifice passage at this time becomes substantially uniform over the entirety of the section. Therefore, the talc-containing polypropylene sufficiently extends toward the opposite sides of the main cavity.

Method of producing molding

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Aichi-ken, Japan

Takahiko Sato