Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Yoshinobu Tada

Koichi Suyama

Kiyoshi Honda

Takamitsu Tajima

Shigeki Ehara

Norifumi Tamura

Seiichiroh Kobayashi

Hiroshi Tabata

Hajime Kajiwara

Tomoya Toyohira

Kaoru Kusaka

Kouichi Sato

A vehicle control apparatus for detecting an operation amount of or an operation state quantity by an operation force on each of two independent operation elements to thereby control a steering unit based on a difference between the operation state quantities so detected.

Vehicle control apparatus

An input deviceA of an electric steering deviceincludes a pair of steering wheelsA,B. When both the steering wheelsA,B or one of the steering wheelsA,B. is operated being rotated, front wheelscan be steered. Further, when both the steering wheelsA,B or one of the steering wheelsA,B is slid in the longitudinal direction of a vehicle, the front wheelscan be steered.

Steering apparatus

A cable steering device is provided such that it can be easily and reliably confirmed whether an inner cable of a Bowden cable is precisely wound around a pulley housed in a housing. Two inner cables are wound around a helical groove defined in an outer peripheral surface of a driven pulley connected to a steering wheel through a driven shaft. An opening is defined in a driven pulley housing enclosing the driven pulley, so that when the steering wheel is assembled to the driven shaft by a spline, it can be confirmed from the outside that the two inner cables have been wound precisely in two turns around the driven pulley.

Cable steering device

The inflator assembly comprises a cylindrical housing main body which is made by extrusion so that it is possible to achieve a desired cross section which optimizes the progress of combustion of the propellant while minimizing the size of the housing. In particular, by using a member clad or mounted with brazing material for an internal component of the assembly, such as the ignition pipe, a leg section for supporting the ignition pipe inside the housing, a wall section for defining a separate combustion chamber, at least one of the end plates for closing the axial ends of the housing main body, and a perforated plate member serving as the perforated section, it is possible to simplify the manufacturing process, and thereby reduce the manufacturing cost.

Inflator assembly for a vehicle air bag system

A suspension system on a motor vehicle includes a transverse leaf spring interconnecting knuckles on which road wheels are rotatably supported. The suspension system includes a pair of knuckle members on which the road wheels are rotatably mounted, an elongate leaf spring which is vertically resilient and extends transversely with respect to the vehicle body, the leaf spring having opposite ends coupled to the knuckle members, respectively, a support member supporting the leaf spring at two supporting points thereon which are spaced from each other transversely with respect to the vehicle body, for allowing the leaf spring to move transversely but limiting the leaf spring against vertical movement with respect to the vehicle body, and a transverse movement limiting mechanism for allowing the leaf spring to move vertically but limiting the leaf spring against transverse movement with respect to the vehicle body. The transverse movement limiting mechanism comprises a link mechanism which couples a portion of the leaf spring between the two supporting points to the vehicle body.

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Saitama, Japan

Yoshinobu Tada