Toyota Shatai Kabushiki Kaisha

Takata Corporation

Yasunari Sakai

Takao Yamamoto

Hiroshi Okumura

Teruji Kuroyanagi

Hideki Umeda

Masayuki Taguchi

Tomochika Mizuta

Akikazu Hashizume

Yukio Tanaka

Masaya Kobayashi

Atsushi Nishikawa

Masaru Morita

Natsuki Kotera

Natsuki Kodera

A door lock release mechanism includes a spacer, which is fixed to a handle baseand restricts depression of an outside handle in an inward direction of a vehicle when a door of the vehicle is deformed, and an engagement portion, which is formed in the spacerand arranged at a position outside the normal path of an opening operation of the door lock release mechanism. The engagement portionis moved to a position in the path of the opening operation of the door lock release mechanism to restrict the opening operation of a latch open leverthrough deformation of the door of the vehicle when a side collision occurs. As a result, simply through the engagement portionformed in the spacer, which restricts displacement of the outside handlein the inward direction of the vehicle, the unlocking operation of the latch open leveris prevented to avoid unlocking of the door when the door is deformed through the side collision.

Door lock release mechanism for automobile door

It is an object of the present invention to prevent a vehicle door from protruding into a vehicle cabin when a collision load is applied to the door from a lateral side thereof, and to reduce costs that are required for measures to prevent the door from protruding into the vehicle cabin.

Automobile body structure

An automobile roof structure in which each end of the roof reinforcement member is connected to a roof side rail via a bracket, the base end of the bracket is fixed to the end of the roof reinforcement member, a base plate of the bracket has upstanding sections that extend to a head edge of the base plate, the upper end of an upstanding end edge of each upstanding section abuts the upper end of a vehicle interior side-surface of the roof side rail, a gap is provided between the lower portion of the upstanding end edge and the side surface. A rotational moment M that is induced in the roof side rail by a collision load acting from the center pillar is not transmitted to the roof reinforcement member

Automobile roof structure

A vehicle occupant restraint apparatus is provided that can restrict the movement of the rear end side of an airbag to the outside of a vehicle. A folded body of the airbagis installed along a roof side railand is inflatable by means of at least one inflator. Guide plates for guiding the extension of the airbag are provided on the roof side railabove each pillar. An extended pieceof the airbagis fastened to the rearmost guide plate, and thereby the movement of the inflated airbagtoward the outside of the vehicle is restricted.

Vehicle occupant restraint apparatus

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Kariya, Japan

Yasunari Sakai