Subaru Corporation

Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Takeru Shoji

Masaaki Kobayashi

Isamu Nagasawa

Noriaki Saito

Tsuyoshi Nomura

Chihiro Suzuki

Keiko Sonoda

Masaya Watanabe

Yoshihiro Kamata

Junichi Oorai

Kousuke Yamada

An occupant protection device including a seat belt including a shoulder belt and a lap belt, a locking tongue that is detachably joined to a buckle, that allows the seat belt to pass therethrough, and that is capable of switching between an unlock state in which the seat belt is allowed to move with the locking tongue being between the shoulder belt and the lap belt and a lock state in which movement thereof is restricted, a shoulder-belt puller that is capable of pulling the shoulder belt to apply a tensile force thereto, a side-collision detector that detects a side collision or a precursor thereof, and a control unit that changes a state of the locking tongue into the lock state and causes the shoulder-belt puller to pull the shoulder belt when the side-collision detector detects the side collision that occurs opposite an occupant or the precursor thereof.

Occupant protection device

An occupant protection device including a seat belt that includes a shoulder belt and a lap belt, a locking tongue that is capable of switching between an unlock state and a lock state, a shoulder-belt puller that is capable of pulling the shoulder belt, a lap-belt puller that is capable of pulling the lap belt, a side-collision detector that detects a side collision or a precursor thereof, and a control unit that changes a state of the locking tongue into the lock state and a state of the lap-belt puller into a first pulling state in which the lap-belt puller pulls the lap belt and that subsequently changes a state of the shoulder-belt puller into a second pulling state in which the shoulder-belt puller pulls the shoulder belt when the side-collision detector detects the side collision that occurs opposite an occupant or the precursor thereof.

A vehicle occupant protection device includes an airbag module, an actuator, and a controller. The airbag module includes an airbag and an inflator that allows the airbag to develop. The actuator attaches the airbag module to a vehicle, to cause a change in relative positional relation between the vehicle and the airbag module. The controller determines a collision mode of the vehicle, on a basis of one or more of input information used in prediction of the collision mode, input information upon a collision of the vehicle, and input information on an internal situation of the vehicle, and controls the relative positional relation between the vehicle and the airbag module. The airbag module allows the airbag to be developed in a state in which the change in the relative positional relation between the vehicle and the airbag module is caused by the actuator.

Vehicle occupant protection device

An airbag device has an airbag housing that is provided in inward lateral faces of a driver's seat backrest and a passenger seat backrest in a vehicle width direction. An upper portion of the airbag housing is provided with a cover portion through which the airbag supplied with gas moves upward from the airbag housing.

Airbag device

Growing community of inventors

Tokyo, Japan

Takeru Shoji