Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited

Jae Hirosaki, Ltd.

Takashi Yanagihara

Naotaka Kumakiri

Makoto Nagai

Mikihito Kojima

Nobuhiro Koyota

Toyohiko Shindo

Yoshihisa Sugamata

Shigeo Tobaru

Yasufumi Hayashi

Terumi Nakaya

Nobuaki Hido

An occupant protection system has a component in question reduced in size and cost. The occupant protection system includes: a rollover airbag device provided in a vehicle interior; a battery configured to supply power to the rollover airbag device; a controller configured to determine a rollover of a vehicle and, if a rollover of the vehicle is determined, activate the rollover airbag device using power supplied from the battery; and a backup power source configured to charge power to be used if the battery fails. The controller determines a collision of the vehicle and examines the battery for any failure and, if a collision of the vehicle is determined and the battery is examined to have a failure, activates the rollover airbag device using the power charged in the backup power source.

Occupant protection system

A side airbag system has a side airbag unit, a posture detector, a weight detector, and a deployment controller. The side airbag unit includes an airbag to be deployed with respect to the sideward direction of the occupant sitting on a vehicle seat. The posture detector determines the posture of the occupant. The weight detector measures the weight of the occupant. The deployment controller controls the deployment of the airbag based on the posture checked by the posture detector and weight measured by the weight detector of the occupant.

Side airbag system

In a connector to be connected to a cable having a core wire, a retainer is fitted into a rear portion of an insulator holding a contact. The core wire is crimped by a wire crimping barrel formed to the contact. The cable is clamped in cooperation with the retainer and the insulator and extracted through the rear portion of the insulator. In addition, the contact has a locking barrel. On the other hand, the retainer includes a locking portion which is engaged with the locking barrel to prevent the contact from being released rearward from the insulator.

Cable connector having a retainer which serves to hold a cable, to protect a connecting portion, and to prevent undesirable releasing of a contact

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Tochigi, Japan

Takashi Yanagihara