Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Takashi Yamafuji

Daisuke Yamamura

Noritaka Nagayama

There is provided a floor structure of a vehicle, which can ensure the safety for a passenger in the event of frontal crash. A toe board is connected to the front end of a floor panel in a manner being raised upward. A cross member is fixed to the rear part of the floor panel. A carpet pad is extended rearward on the floor panel from a position in the vicinity of the toe board, and has a rear end thereof abutted on the cross member to restrict rearward movement of the carpet pad. The carpet pad is provided with a fragile part which is located in front of the cross member and is buckled by impact load is provided in the vicinity of a seat.

Floor structure of vehicle

A vehicular passenger protecting apparatus preferably used in an air bag to be spread at a side portion in a vehicular compartment of an automobile. The apparatus includes an air bag main body to be expanded to spread from an upper side of a side portion of a vehicle to an inside of a vehicular compartment, a pillar portion of the vehicle, a trim member for covering an inner side of the pillar portion of the vehicle and forming a gap between the trim member and the pillar portion, a strap for connecting the air bag main body and the pillar portion arranged at an inside of a space surrounded by the pillar portion and the trim member, and a strap holding member arranged at the inside of the space. The strap holding member holds the strap releasably in a predetermined direction. The strap holding member is disposed to direct in the predetermined direction towards the gap.

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Kariya, Japan

Takashi Yamafuji