Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Yoshimasa Asano

Kenji Hori

Hiroyuki Fujii

Muneto Inayoshi

Kan Ichihara

Shuhei Uchida

Naoka Kawajiri

Koji Ito

Hitoshi Takayanagi

Hideki Kawabata

Tokuhiro Shiga

Takeshi Kuwabara

Kenji Maeta

Morio Sakai

Hiroshi Watanabe

Takashi Saito

Masumi Nishikawa

Koichi Hirota

Toshiro Maeda

Tatsuya Shimizu

Masayuki Nomura

Shunsuke Hayakawa

Daisuke Yuasa

Dai Hidaka

Kazuki Tsuboi

Yasuaki Nishio

Takashi Kawato

Hironori Kanasaki

Hajime Shiohara

Eri Yamamoto

Shigeki Sato

Yuji Suzuki

A grille shutter device includes: a first bumper reinforcement extending in a vehicle width direction; and a shutter mechanism that is provided with a plurality of support members extending from the first bumper reinforcement in a direction intersecting with the vehicle width direction, is supported by the plurality of support members, and regulates a flow rate of air which flows into an engine room from a grille.

Grille shutter device

A shutter mechanism is adapted to be provided to a grill opening in a vehicle body. Opening and closing operations of the shutter mechanism are controlled by an electronic control unit (ECU). The ECU determines whether a vehicle is in a traveling end state. If the vehicle is in the traveling end state, the ECU determines whether or not the shutter mechanism is in an open state. If the ECU determines that the open state of the shutter mechanism cannot be confirmed, the ECU controls the shutter mechanism to open the shutter mechanism.

Grill shutter device

A grille apparatus for a vehicle includes a first cover arranged at an opening portion of a front grille, a second cover arranged at the opening portion of the front grille, and a drive mechanism changing a relative position of the first cover and the second cover in response to a driving force of a drive source, in which the drive mechanism changes an opening amount of the front grille by performing an opening operation moving the second cover to a rear of the first cover, and by performing a closing operation returning the second cover to a fully-closed position, the fully-closed position before moving the second cover to the rear of the first cover while maintaining the first cover and the second cover within the opening portion of the front grille.

Grille apparatus for vehicle

A spoiler unit includes a movable spoiler for a vehicle, a frame fixing the movable spoiler to the vehicle, and a cover being mounted on the frame.

Spoiler unit and manufacturing method thereof

A spoiler device includes a movable spoiler for a vehicle, the movable spoiler being movable between a retracted position and a deployed position, a link mechanism supporting the movable spoiler, a torsion bar connected to the link mechanism, and an actuation portion rotating the torsion bar.

Spoiler device

A spoiler device for a vehicle includes a spoiler, a support mechanism supporting the spoiler, the support mechanism adjusting the spoiler to be positioned at a deployed position where the spoiler protrudes from an outer surface of the vehicle, the support mechanism adjusting the spoiler to be positioned at a retracted position where the spoiler is retracted within a housing recessed portion, the housing recessed portion being formed at the outer surface of the vehicle, a fixing member fixing the spoiler to the support mechanism, and a first tubular member and a second tubular member into which the fixing member is inserted, the first tubular member being provided with a first threaded portion at a first circumferential surface, the second tubular member being provided with a second threaded portion at a second circumferential surface, the first threaded portion and the second threaded portion being threadedly engaged with each other.

Spoiler device for vehicle

A grille shutter control device is provided with a control section configured so as to open and close a shutter adapted to be provided in an air introduction path for introducing air ahead of the vehicle into an engine compartment. The grille shutter control device drives and controls first and second drive units. The grille shutter control device is provided with: an abnormality detecting section configured to detect an abnormality in the operation of the shutter on the basis of the condition of the shutter after the start of operation thereof; and an informing section for informing, on the basis of an abnormality in the operation detected by the abnormality detection section, the user of the abnormality in the operation of the shutter.

Grille shutter control device

Provided is a grill shutter device including a shutter mechanism controlling a flow rate of air flowing into a vehicle body from the grill opening portion of the vehicle body front portion by an opening and closing operation; a frame configured to support the shutter mechanism within the grill opening portion; an actuator that is held in the frame and performs the opening and closing driving of the shutter mechanism; and a holding structure capable of relatively moving the actuator to the front side of the frame, based on the collision load at the time of the vehicle collision.

A grille shutter apparatus includes a shutter mechanism including plural of movable fins and at least one connection mechanism independently arranged to connect every two of the movable fins adjacent to one another. Accordingly, the shutter mechanism makes the movable fins operate in conjunction with one another. The grille shutter apparatus further includes a control portion controlling a flow rate of air flowing from a grille opening portion formed at a front portion of a vehicle body into the vehicle body on the basis of opening and closing operations of the shutter mechanism, and a detection device detecting an operational state of the shutter mechanism on the basis of an operation of the movable fins which correspond to a most downstream portion of a serially-arranged driving force transmission path formed at the shutter mechanism.

Grille shutter apparatus

A movable grille shutter for a vehicle includes a fin adapted to be provided at a grille opening portion and being operated so as to freely open or close the grille opening portion through which ambient air is taken in, a drive source for driving the fin, a driving force transmitting mechanism for transmitting a driving force from the drive source to the fin and a flexible member being linked to the driving force transmitting mechanism and being deformed for operating the fin to open the grille opening portion in a case where a load that is equal to or more than a predetermined value is acted thereon.

Movable grille shutter for vehicle

An open/close actuating mechanism control device for a vehicle includes: an actuating mechanism () that is exposed to outside air and that opens or closes on the basis of whether a predetermined condition is satisfied; an open/close failure determining unit () that determines whether an open/close failure of the actuating mechanism (), in which the actuating mechanism () fails to open or close, has occurred; an outside air temperature detecting unit () that detects an outside air temperature; and a determination timing changing unit () that changes timing, at which the open/close failure determining unit () determines that the open/close failure of the actuating mechanism () has occurred, on the basis of the outside air temperature detected by the outside air temperature detecting unit ().

Open/close actuating mechanism control device and open/close actuating mechanism control method for vehicle

A load detection device for a vehicle seat mounted between a floor side mounting mechanism and a seat side mounting mechanism and measuring a load applied by an occupant seated on the vehicle seat, includes a shaft member adapted to be fixed to one of the floor side mounting mechanism and the seat side mounting mechanism, a strain generating member fixed to the shaft member and including a hole into which the shaft member is press-fitted, a strain gauge attached to the strain generating member, the shaft member of which surface hardness is specified to be lower than a surface hardness of the hole and including a scraping projecting portion scraped off by means of the hole in a case where the shaft member is press-fitted to the hole, and an inter space formed between the strain generating member and the shaft member and positioned next to the scraping projecting portion.

Vehicle seat load detection device having interspace to receive projecting portion scraped off from press-fitted shaft member

A seat apparatus for a vehicle, includes a seat-side fixing member, a slide rail, a load detecting device disposed between the seat-side fixing member and the slide rail and arranged at an end portion of the slide rail on a rear side of the vehicle, and a bracket arranged at an end portion of the slide rail on a front side of the vehicle, the bracket supporting the seat-side fixing member. The bracket includes a lower attachment portion attached to the slide rail, a supporting portion extending from the lower attachment portion toward an upper side of the vehicle, and an upper attachment portion connected to the supporting portion so as to extend from the supporting portion toward the rear side of the vehicle, thereby being cantilever-supported by the supporting portion, and attached to the seat-side fixing member at a free-end side of the upper attachment portion.

Vehicle seat apparatus having load detecting device

A load detection device for a vehicle seat mounted between a floor side mounting mechanism made of metal and a seat side mounting mechanism made of metal and measuring a load applied by an occupant seated on the vehicle seat includes a strain generating body adapted to be fixed via both end portions to a fitting surface formed at one of the floor side mounting mechanism and the seat side mounting mechanism while having a predetermined clearance from the fitting surface, a strain gauge attached to the strain generating body, a bracket made of metal and including an attachment portion that extends laterally relative to the strain generating body, and an amplifier substrate mounted on the attachment portion while being arranged in parallel to the strain generating body, both surfaces of the amplifier substrate being covered by one of or more of the bracket, the floor side mounting mechanism and the seat side mounting mechanism, the amplifier substrate amplifying a signal output from the strain gauge.

Load sensor for vehicle seat with an attached amplifier substrate shielded by an attached metal bracket and the sensor mounting mechanism

A load detection device includes a strain generating body having first and second holes at first and second ends of the strain generating body, a strain gauge attached on the strain generating body, first and second fixing members having first and second middle shaft portion press-fitted into the first and second holes, respectively, and having first and second end shaft portions protruding from the first and second middle shaft portions, respectively, a bracket member having first fixing portion including a first fixing hole into which the first end shaft portion is press-fitted, and a second fixing portion, integrally connected to the first fixing portion and including a second fixing hole into which the second end shaft portion is inserted with a clearance therebetween, a press-fit fixing member press-fitted onto the second end shaft portion, and a connecting shaft integrally connected to the strain generating body.

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Kariya, Japan

Yoshimasa Asano