Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

F-tech Inc.

Tomohiro Sakuraba

Yoshiharu Saito

Atsushi Komatsu

Hideto Nebuya

Kenji Hamabe

Takashi Sugiyama

Masataka Kumata

Kazuhiro Miura

Masato Ishibashi

Kotaro Hiramine

Yoshinori Furusawa

Shigeki Nomura

Hiroshi Kiyomoto

Teruo Kato

Toshimi Kitamura

Akio Morita

Tomoaki Abe

Yasushi Ohkawa

Yoshio Abe, Legal Representative

Shusaku Noguchi

Keiichi Satoh

Makirou Ishimoto

Koji Terasaki

In an automatic transmission, a shift lever is operable to move to one of a plurality of shift positions corresponding to ranges established as selectable options. The plurality of shift positions are each configured as one of a momentary position allowing the shift lever to automatically return to a home position and a retention position allowing the shift lever to be held therein. A return mechanism for causing the shift lever held in the retention position to return to the home position is provided. The return mechanism is enabled on one of conditions that the parking switch be turned on and that an ignition switch be turned off. In a manual transmission, a return mechanism for causing the shift lever held in a gear stage to return to a home position is provided, and the return mechanism is enabled on condition that an ignition switch be turned off.

Gearshift device and method of controlling same

An accelerator pedal () includes a stopper member () fixed to the floor of the driver's seat, a pad member () fastened to the stopper member () and operated by the driver's depression force, an arm () engaged with the pad member () to transmit the depression force, and a bracket () engaged with the arm () to support the arm (), wherein the stopper member () is provided with a pad fitting section () for fastening the pad member (), and the pad member () is integrally molded by a single resin material.

Gas pedal

A process for the high speed production of fiber reinforced plastic moldings forms several preforms which are solidified with chopped fibers, resin powders and a binder and are held between two preheating plates. Each plate is formed of a thin metal plate and will preheat the preforms to a temperature higher than the melting point of the resin. While the preforms are held between the preheating plates, the preforms are cold-pressed in a mold maintained at a temperature lower than the melting point of the resin for simultaneous impregnation and cooling of the resin. In addition, a preforming mold is placed in a vacuum chamber and precut chopped fibers are positioned in a tank. The preforming mold is placed into the tank and an exhauster is actuated to vacuumize both the vacuum chamber and the preforming mold, thereby adsorbing the chopped fibers in the tank onto the preforming mold and forming on the surface of the preforming mold an unsolidified preform comprising the chopped fibers. Resin powders are sprayed onto the preform for adsorption. A binder is subsequently applied under reduced pressure onto the preform. After drying the preform, the chopped fibers along with the binder are solidified.

Process for the high speed production of fiber reinforced plastic

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Saitama, Japan

Tomohiro Sakuraba