Calsonic Kansei Corporation

Calsonic Kansei North America, Inc.

Tomiharu Yamada

Kazumi Ono

Kazuki Funakura

Marius Cociuba

Koutarou Yamanaka

Peng Lee

Naotoshi Ota

Toshiaki Sugisaki

Side portions of a guide member mounting portion of the instrument panel include a panel side welding guide surface integrally formed therewith. The panel side welding guide surface is spaced apart from the back surface of the instrument panel. Side portions of the guide member include a guide side welding guide surface integrally formed with the guide member. The panel side welding guide surface and the guide side welding guide surface overlap each other. One of the guide side welding guide surface and the panel side welding guide surface includes a position regulating recess. The other of the guide side welding guide surface and the panel side welding guide surface includes a position regulating protrusion that fits into the position regulating recess during vibration welding.

Airbag mounting structure and airbag mounting method

An airbag device includes an airbag main body, a storing section, an airbag lid member, a hinge section and a protective member. The airbag lid member has a lid section and an opening section. The lid section is configured to be opened by a pressing force of the airbag main body. The opening section is formed when the lid section is opened. The hinge section couples an edge portion of the opening section and the lid section. The protective member is configured and arranged to be disposed between the airbag main body and the hinge section when the airbag main body expands, and has a main protective section and a peripheral portion protective section. The peripheral portion protective section is provided on both sides of the main protective section to cover at least a peripheral portion of the lid section which protrudes from both sides of the hinge section.

Airbag device

An airbag module removal structure includes a pair of brackets which extends from an instrument panel and is disposed with a space to sandwich an airbag module, a first hook member secured to one side of the airbag module and a second hook member secured to the other side of the airbag module, and each of the first and second hook members includes an engagement part capable of being inserted into a hole provided in each of the brackets, and a clearance between the brackets and sizes of the engagement parts of the first and second hook members are set such that the first hook member is removed from the hole corresponding to the first hook member, and then the second hook member is removed from the hole corresponding to the second hook member.

Airbag module removal structure

A structure of a glove box, including a glove box body having a rear wall extending near a dash-panel and a temporary connector holding part provided on an opposite portion of the rear wall opposing to a connector mounting opening provided in the dash-panel the temporary connector holding part having a temporary connector holding bracket provided on the opposite portion of the rear wall and the temporary connector holding bracket having a connector containing concave portion and a connector engaging portion.

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Saitama, Japan

Tomiharu Yamada