Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Toshimitu Watanabe

Hiroki Nakajima

Masayuki Sakai

Shigeji Takumi

Kazutoshi Minami

A jump-up stand is disposed below a folded air bag body and is also provided over a region from a position near a front side of a center pillar to the center pillar. The jump-up stand is formed from a plate material which is bent to have a substantially L-shaped cross sectional configuration and includes a wall portion extending toward an upper end of a center pillar garnish. Accordingly, when the air bag body expands, the air bag body expands toward the interior of a vehicle along the wall portion of the jump-up stand so as to prevent large load from acting on the upper end of the center pillar garnish.

Placement structure for head-protecting air bag body

An interior equipment mounting structure for a vehicle incorporating a head-protecting air bag body, a roof head lining, which is deformed at the time of expansion of the air bag body, includes a sun visor and an arm. The sun visor is connected to a vehicle body and is movable from an accommodated state to at least one predetermined position for use. The sun visor is connected to the vehicle body by the arm. The sun visor is formed by a main body portion and by an overhang portion. When a load of a predetermined value or more acts on the overhang portion by the expansion of the air bag body, the overhang portion is easily deformable with respect to the main body portion.

Interior equipment mounting structure for a vehicle incorporating head-protecting air bag body

A structure for the placement of a head protecting air bag body which is provided from a front pillar to along a roof side rail and expands into a curtain-like form, comprising: an opening trim which is fixed to a mounting portion of a vehicle door opening portion at which the opening trim is mounted to the vehicle door opening portion; and an air bag body expansion guide means which guides the expanding of the air bag body such that the air bag body expands without contacting the mounting portion of the vehicle door opening portion.

Structure for placement of head protecting air bag body

During a collision, an air bag causes deformation of a roof head lining as the air bag expands. A roof head lining deformation limiting structure restricts inward deformation of the roof head lining. Thus, the roof head lining is prevented from interfering with an interior equipment, e.g., a sun visor, thereby reducing breakage of the sun visor provided adjacent the roof head lining. The deformation limiting structure can take the form of an assist grip or a card holder. Also, the assist grip or the card holder can be mounted onto a member, e.g., a bracket, that plastically deforms upon being struck by the occupant's head during a collision, thereby absorbing a portion of the impact that would otherwise be transferred to the occupant.

A vehicle which incorporates an air treatment unit mounted underneath the front instrument panel. A hollow center console box extends along the center of the floor of the vehicle passenger compartment in the longitudinal direction. An opening at the front end of the console box is connected to an air outlet of the air treatment unit, and an opening at the rear end of the console box opens towards a space defined underneath the front seating assembly of the vehicle between it and the floor. Thus treated air is led from the air treatment unit through the hollow console box and is emitted towards the space under the front seating assembly so as to pass therefrom into the rear seating space behind the front seating assembly, and there is no risk that the feet of a person seated on the front seating assembly obstruct this flow of treated air to the space underneath the front seating assembly.

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Okazaki, Japan

Toshimitu Watanabe