Mazda Motor Corporation

Delta Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Toyo Seat Co., Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Toyo Seat (Toyo Seat Ltd.)

Nishikawa Kasei Co., Ltd.

Chugoku Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Chugoku Kasei Kogyo Co., Ltd.)

Terumi Akazawa

Hiroki Uemura

Tomonori Ohtsubo

Takushi Ujimoto

Keisuke Iida

Teiji Hiyori

Reiji Kikuchi

Masao Hara

Kazuhisa Toh

Kazunobu Nakamori

Takeyuki Uchida

Kunihiko Sakamoto

Yoshiaki Matsuo

Harumi Suehiro

Takafumi Yamane

A movable floor device for a vehicle, which comprises a movable board disposed beneath feet of an occupant seated in an occupant seat, a drive source disposed below the occupant seat, and a driving-force transmission mechanism adapted, according to a driving force of the drive source, to input a force directed in a selected one of frontward and rearward directions of a vehicle body, into a rear portion of the movable board. The movable board is supported in such a manner as to be selectively displaced upwardly and downwardly in response to respective ones of the frontward and rearward forces input from the driving-force transmission mechanism. The movable floor apparatus of the present invention makes it possible to allow a lowermost height position of a movable board to be set at a lower level so as to cope with various seating postures with enhanced flexibility.

Movable floor apparatus for vehicle

A vehicle seat assembly comprises a coupling membercoupling a front end of a seat-cushion frameto an upper rail, a rear link memberprovided in a rear end of the seat-cushion frame, and a support memberprovided on the side of a vehicle body to support the rear link member. The rear link memberincludes a pivoted portionpivotally supported by the upper rail, a coupled portioncoupled to the rear end of the seat-cushion frame, and an engaged portion engaged with the support member. The support memberincludes a sliding drive portion (sliding groove) which slidably supports the engaged portion of the rear link memberto allow the rear link memberto be swingingly displaced in conjunction with a longitudinal movement of the seat-cushion frame, so as to move the coupled portionin an upward/downward direction to drivingly lift and lower the rear end of the seat-cushion frame. The vehicle seat assembly of the present invention can effectively a height position of a seat cushion in conjunction with an operation of adjusting a longitudinal position of an occupant seat in conformity to occupant's physique or the like.

Vehicle seat assembly

A parison is hung down between a pair of molding metallic molds in the opened state, expanding members are contacted with the specified portions of the parison, and after setting the temperature difference between the specified portions and other portions in accordance with a pre-set thickness ratio between both portions after forming thereof, the expanding members are moved while cooling the specified portions of expanding members so as to extend and thin the portions other than the specified portions of the parison, and the metallic molds are closed together so as to blow compressed air into the parison to effect blow-molding.

Blow-molding method for resinous molding product and apparatus therefor

A method for manufacturing a skin-covered article includes setting a skin mber having a top portion and a side portion in a mold assembly including an upper mold having a first cavity, a second cavity, and an enclosing projection, and a lower mold having an upper wall and a peripheral portion by covering the skin member over the lower mold with the back surface of the skin member being turned outside, coupling the upper mold and the lower mold to close the first cavity by the top portion to define a pad forming space with the enclosing projection pressing the top portion against the upper wall, and to close the second cavity by the peripheral portion to define a housing space to house the side portion, and introducing pad material into the pad forming space.

Method and apparatus for manufacturing a skin-covered article

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Hiroshima, Japan

Terumi Akazawa