Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsuba Corporation

Tatsuya Sugamoto

Yosuke Fukasawa

Masaya Kubo

Hitoshi Kurihara

Yasushi Kawaji

Yuzuru Imoto

Hitoshi Suga

Masashi Fukui

Hideo Hamamoto

Kenji Gondo

Shigemi Sugimori

Hirofumi Nishikawa

Akifumi Suzuki

Narihide Matsuyama

Hisataka Kato

Kazutomo Shikimachi

Hiroshi Shimasaki

Noriyuki Ito

Suga Hitoshi

A vehicle lamp includes a long solid-core shaped light guide; a first light source that irradiates an end portion of the long solid-core shaped light guide in a longitudinal direction such that light is radiated long from an end side of the vehicle lamp toward another end side of the vehicle lamp; and a second light source that irradiates the another end side of the vehicle lamp to a lateral outer side.

Vehicle lamp

A door mirror includes a turn signal lamp for indicating a traveling direction; a foot lamp; and a housing that houses the turn signal lamp and the foot lamp, wherein the turn signal lamp and the foot lamp are provided in the housing such that the turn signal lamp and the foot lamp are provided with outer lenses lying adjacent to each other such that light based on a turning on of one lamp is guided to an outer lens of the other lamp.

Door mirror

A turn lamp includes a base housing; a light source unit incorporated with a light source and housed in the base housing; an inner housing provided with a long and solid light guide; a lens cover that covers the base housing; and a diffused reflection generator that is structured such that light from the light source leaks out long from the light guide.

Door mirror with turn lamp

A collision energy absorbing structure of a vehicle body upper portion of an automobile having a roofside rail (20) extending in the forward and backward direction and formed to be a closed structure with an outer panel (30) and an inner panel (32) includes a metal energy absorbing panel (22) and a resin interior trim material (24). The energy absorbing panel (22) has a thickness smaller than the thicknesses of the outer panel (30) and the inner panel (32) and is arranged with a space (D) inward of the inner panel. The terminal portion in the longitudinal direction of the energy absorbing panel (22) has a tendency that energy absorption reduces but the tendency is compensated by resin material (26, 28).

Collision energy absorbing structure of vehicle body upper portion of

A structure of absorbing impact energy using a non-metallic interior material for an automobile is provided. The interior material is arranged on the inside of an inner panel of a structure member which includes the inner panel and an outer panel and is formed to have a closed structure in cross section taken along an horizontal imaginary plane. An energy absorbing space in defined between the inner panel and the interior material. A non-metallic energy absorber formed separately from the interior material is mounted on the inner panel or the interior material so as to be arranged in the space.

Structure of absorbing impact energy using interior material of

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Okazaki, Japan

Tatsuya Sugamoto