Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Komatsu Corporation

Takuya Higashiura

Koji Sato

Akihiro Koyama

Yasushi Kato

Takayoshi Matsuno

Yoshinori Okuno

Kazuo Kobayashi

Toshihiko Nakamura

Mutsumu Haraoka

Atsushi Sugiura

Kiyotaka Ninomiya

Haruhiko Tsutsumi

Yasushi Suizu

Yuji Fukuda

An air conditioning apparatus for a vehicle in which an engine room ( ) and a passenger compartment ( ) are separated by a dash panel ( ), the vehicular air-conditioning apparatus having a conditioned air blowout opening ( ) and a passenger compartment internal air suction opening ( ) that are opened at a side of the passenger compartment ( ), the passenger compartment internal air suction opening ( ) being provided in an upper portion of an instrument panel ( ).

Vehicular air conditioning apparatus

An instrument panel of a division type, which has distinctly divided portions, reduces restrictions on designing freedom resulting from a break line and a parting line of an air bag door portion and prevents the overall quality of the outward appearance from deteriorating. The instrument panel is of a type that is divided into upper and lower panels, and the lower panel is divided into a passenger-side lower panel and a driver-side lower panel. The parting line of the instrument panel coincides with a cleavage line defined by an upper air bag door portion and a lower air bag door portion. In a lower door insert of the lower air bag door portion, a free end thereof is set wider than a fixed end thereof. The passenger-side lower panel including the lower air bag door portion is entirely covered with a single skin.

Instrument panel integrally equipped with air bag door portion

A seat structure having an side impact air bag apparatus which can reduce costs, and can be assembled with improved workability. The air bag apparatus, which extends in the longitudinal direction of a seat back, is disposed in a side portion provided on the outer side of the seat back in the widthwise direction of the vehicle. An air bag of the air bag apparatus is folded and the folded air bag is integrated with a seat back pad during a foaming process, and is fixed to a seat back frame together with other structural components of the air bag apparatus. When the seat back pad is made by foaming, the air bag in the folded state is placed within a molding die, and a foaming material is foamed to obtain the seat back pad integrated with the air bag.

Seat structure having a side impact air bag apparatus

The present invention is a side impact air bag apparatus which is incorporated into a vehicle seat and is mounted to an outer side of a side portion of a seat back frame of the vehicle seat, comprising: an air bag body which is provided in the air bag apparatus and which is rectangular when viewed in the transverse direction of the vehicle in an unfolded state, an unfolding direction distal end lower portion of the air bag body, which is provided at a distal end of the air bag body in the unfolding direction of the air bag body and at a lower side portion of the distal end portion, being folded in a diagonally upward direction of the vehicle, and thereafter, the air bag body being folded from the distal end side of the air bag body in the unfolding direction of the air bag body to a proximal end side of the air bag body in the unfolding direction of the air bag body.

Side impact air bag apparatus and door arm rest

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Toyota, Japan

Takuya Higashiura