Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.

Quality Safety Systems

William Brian Deming

Jonathan Richard Young

Naipaul Deo Ramoutar

Jonathan Joseph Quijano

Robert Charles Steinbrecher

Vasudeva Sankarshana Murthy

Hamshivraj Singh Dhamrat

Matthew Frank Parkinson

Sean Anthony Wright

Valerie Schnabelrauch

Steven Edward Owen

Jamaine Channte Arrington

Kelly L T Harbison

Hiroki Sawa

Anchor brackets/tethers may be used to reinforce a vehicle's resin rear door without substantially increasing the mass of the resin rear door. Such anchor brackets hold an interior trim panel(s) in place, and keep the interior trim panel(s) connected to the door structure or portion(s) thereof. The interior trim panel(s) can act as a protective interior shield that eliminates any exposure of the interior cabin/passenger compartment from any outer (and/or interior) door panel cracks/gaps that may be created during an adverse event. Moreover, conventional interior trim panels may, during a collision, break apart, the broken pieces becoming potentially dangerous projectiles. By being attached to the door structure and/or door componentry, the chance that the interior trim panel (or portions thereof) becoming a projectile is negated or at least lessened.

Combination interior trim and reinforcement for exterior resin pane

A fastener assembly for attaching a fastener to an opening of a sheet material is disclosed. The sheet material is typically located adjacent to a base structure and the fastener assembly affords radial movement of the fastener relative to the opening of the sheet material. The radial movement allows the fastener to be aligned with a desired location on the base structure, e.g. a threaded aperture&#x2014;after being attached to the sheet material. In this manner, the fastener assembly provides for the placement of the fastener in difficult to reach and/or see locations until it can be attached to the base structure.

Fastener assembly

The present invention discloses a stowable seat and seat storage structure that affords for storing of the stowable seat in a vehicle and yet not use or occupy any floor or sub-floor cargo space. An interior side wall for the vehicle is also provided, the interior side wall having a recess that is dimensioned for the stowable seat to fit at least partially therewithin when it is detached from the floor and folded into a stowed configuration.

Stowable seat and seat storage structure

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Fenton, MI, United States of America

William Brian Deming