Nissan Motor Company Limited

Fuji Koko Co., Ltd.

Toshimitsu Kimura

Yutaka Ohmura

Tsuyoshi Nakamura

Yasushi Asano

Sadayuki Nakamura

Toshikazu Nanbu

Nobuo Kino

Noriko Uchiyama

Keizo Otani

Shinsaku Tsuji

Takurou Yamaguchi

Tetsuo Shimizu

Yasuhito Suzuki

Hideyuki Usui

A high bearing pressure-resistant member used as a rolling element forming part of a toroidal continuously variable transmission for an automotive vehicle. The high bearing pressure-resistant member is formed of a mechanical structural steel containing Cr. The mechanical structural steel includes a matrix having at least one of martensite structure and bainite structure. The matrix contains carbide having a mean particle size of 3 &mgr;m or less, dispersed and precipitated in form of at least one of generally spheres and pseudo-spheres.

High bearing pressure-resistant member

A shift lever is composed of a lower lever section connected to a control rod of a transmission, and an upper lever section formed with a hollow cylindrical portion and provided with a shift lever knob. The lower lever section is formed with an elongate end portion which is being inserted in the hollow cylindrical portion of the upper lever section. Additionally, lower and upper elastomeric insulators spaced from each other are securely mounted on the elongate end portion of the lower lever section. The lower elastomeric insulator is securely connected to the upper lever section cylindrical portion, while the upper elastomeric insulator is adapted to form a clearance between it and the upper lever section cylindrical portion, thereby avoiding contact between the upper elastomeric insulator and the upper lever section cylindrical portion upon the shift lever being not operated.

Shift lever

A shock absorbing assembly disclosed such as an over rider of a bumper, a shock absorbing bumper, a stopper or a guard molding, comprises a core member or members molded of a low density elastomeric material having stud bolts or nuts inserted before molding and embedded therein, and a cover member molded of a high density elastomeric material enclosing the core member inserted before molding the cover member.

Shock absorbing assembly

In accordance with the present invention, there is provided an improved bumper construction for an automotive vehicle. The vehicle has a plurality of bumper mounting stays and a body panel adjacent the stays. The bumper construction comprises a thin-walled plastic bumper, a reinforcement member mounted to the bumper at an intermediate section thereof adjacent the body panel and a spring member interposed between the reinforcement member and the vehicle body panel. The reinforcement member and the intermediate section of the bumper are adapted to define a closed bumper configuration. The spring member is operatively connected to the reinforcement member and the vehicle body panel such that the intermediate section of the bumper is supported through the spring member by the body panel. The spring member is rigid in the vertical direction to resist vertical movement of the bumper relative to the vehicle body and is resiliently deformable in the horizontal direction to yieldingly resist the horizontal movement of the intermediate section of the bumper toward the vehicle body panel.

Bumper construction for automotive vehicles

A resilient member having preselected properties is disposed on a bolt securing an elastomeric bumper to a vehicle body bumper stay for biasing the elastomeric member against the bumper stay with a force which remains within preselected limits despite expansion and creeping of the elastomeric bumper. The hole in the bumper stay and the hole in the elastomeric bumper through which the bolt is disposed are of different diameters, or one is elongate to allow the bolt and the elastomeric bumper to move in a plane normal to the axis of the bolt.

Connection structure for vehicle body parts

A support is constructed and arranged to absorb a tangential force component of an impact force applied to the steering wheel of the steering column.

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Fujisawa, Japan

Toshimitsu Kimura