Mazda Motor Corporation

Takeshi Takagi

Toshihiro Ishikawa

Kazuki Fujise

Ayumu Doi

Tetsuro Butsuen

Toshihiro Hara

Satoshi Morioka

Satoru Matsuoka

Koji Tobita

Yutaka Tsukiji

Kouzou Hirota

Ken Kawamura

Yoshiaki Kinoshita

Naoyuki Hikida

A rectifying plate ( ) is inserted between gas outlets of a first inflator ( ) and/or a second inflator ( ) and a diffuser ( ), and is formed with a plurality of openings which have different areas and uniform gas flows released from the gas outlets, and the opening area corresponding to the inactive second inflator ( ) of the first and second inflators ( ) is larger than the opening area corresponding to the active first inflator ( ).

Airbag apparatus

An air bag system comprises a crash detector for detecting a crash of the vehicle, an inflator for generating pressurized gas in response to a detection of a crush, and an air bag located in front of a seat for which is inflated and expanded with the pressurized gas to a predetermined inflated configuration. A control unit controls actuation of the inflator in accordance with driving conditions and whether or not the passenger is fastened by the seat belt. Threshold values are provided such that the inflator provides high and low levels of gas pressure with which the air bag is inflated and expanded.

Air bag system as a supplementary restraint system to seat belt apparatus

A contact preventive system for vehicles using an automatic braking device and an automatic steering device together. Contact forecasting mechanism forecasts the contact of a vehicle with an obstacle. When the contact of the obstacle is forecasted, automatic braking control mechanism operates the automatic braking device. Environment detecting mechanism detects the change of environment such as a friction coefficient of a road. Automatic steering control mechanism operates the automatic steering device to alter the advance direction of the vehicle when a possibility of contact is caused by the change of environment during automatic braking. Thus, contact can be avoided.

Contact preventive apparatus for vehicles

An automobile seat assembly includes a seat cushion subassembly and a seat back subassembly coupled with the seat cushion subassembly to represent a generally L-shaped configuration. A holding device is installed in the seat cushion subassembly and is deformable in response to the sitting of a seat occupant on a sitting area of the seat cushion subassembly and holds the sitting area in a deformed shape resulting from the seat occupant sitting on the sitting area. An actuating device installed in the seat cushion subassembly actuates the holding device. A detecting device detects the actual sitting position of the seat occupant on the sitting area. A control device is operable to operate the actuating device a predetermined time after the detecting device has detected the actual sitting position of the seat occupant on the sitting area.

Automobile seat assembly

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Hiroshima-ken, Japan

Takeshi Takagi