Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Takahiro Higuchi

Kazuaki Shitanoki

Hidetaka Shinozaki

Toshiro Matsushima

Masashi Kusumi

Akio Yanaka

A passenger seat for use as a front seat in a motor vehicle is highly rigid and provides a space beneath a seat cushion for allowing a rear seat passenger to put front foot ends therein. The passenger seat has a seat frame comprising a main frame having a pair of beams disposed on opposite rear side thereof and extending rearwardly, and a substantially U-shaped opening defined in a rear central portion thereof and opening rearwardly, and a reinforcing frame interconnecting rear ends of the beams.

Passenger seat for motor vehicle

A control method for an automatic seat belt of an automobile including interconnecting a seat belt mechanism with a door of the automobile to operate the mechanism with opening and closing of the door so that the seat belt is automatically tightened when the door is closed and loosened when the door is opened, further comprising in addition interconnecting the seat belt mechanism with an ignition switch so that the seat belt is automatically turned from the tightened condition to the loosened condition even when the door is still closed if the ignition switch is turned off or an ignition key is removed from the ignition switch.

Growing community of inventors

Tochigi, Japan

Takahiro Higuchi