Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Yuichiro Umeda

Carlington George Demetrius

Hiroaki Taniguchi

Akira Miyazaki

Yoshiaki Ikeda

Benjamin M Oros

Yuze Li

Keisuke Kato

Nobumoto Sekiguchi

Kiyoshi Hara

A vehicle floor system includes a center floor garnish, and a plurality of brackets connected to a lower surface of the center floor garnish, wherein a portion of each of the brackets extends beyond an edge of the center floor and receives a mechanical fastener that fixes the center floor to a structure of a vehicle.

Center floor attachment for a vehicle

A vehicle floor system includes a floor garnish disposed in a cabin of a vehicle, wherein the floor garnish comprises a first peripheral edge, and a center floor disposed in the cabin area of the vehicle, the center floor comprising a second peripheral edge, wherein the second peripheral edge is on the first peripheral edge, and the first peripheral edge and the second peripheral edge form a joint between the floor garnish and the center floor.

Vehicle floor joints

A system including an airbag assembly for a vehicle is disclosed. The airbag assembly includes a housing supporting the airbag, an inflation device ('inflator') in fluid communication with the airbag for inflating the airbag from an uninflated position to an inflated position, a tether fixed to the airbag that helps control the deployment and inflation of the airbag, and a tether lid configured to open in order to release the tether during deployment. The tether lid is installed in a pillar garnish of the vehicle, and is opened in response to the force of the tether as it is pulled by the deploying airbag.

Lid for airbag tether deployment in vehicles

An automated vehicle includes a vehicle body defining a storage area located rearward of a rearmost vehicle seat in a front-rear direction of the automated vehicle. An interior structure is located in the storage area. The interior structure defines a storage compartment for housing an electronic component of the automated vehicle. The interior structure includes a removable floor panel overlying the storage compartment and a wall panel extended upward from the floor panel in a height direction of the automated vehicle. The storage compartment includes a dedicated space for the electronic component, the dedicated space located forward of a forward edge portion of the floor panel in the front-rear direction and between the wall panel and the rearmost vehicle seat in the front-rear direction.

Interior structure for an automated vehicle

A seal for sealing a gap between a seat back of a seat in a vehicle, the seat back including a fabric construction, and a shelf located adjacent the seat back includes a trim member laterally spanning from a first distal end of an engagement edge of the shelf that engages with the seat back of the seat to a second distal end of the engagement edge of the shelf. The trim member includes a seal member laterally spanning and attached to the trim member that engages with the seat back. The seal member is constructed of an unwoven fabric material.

Seal for a trim member of a vehicle seat back

An object of the present invention is to provide a parcel shelf structure whose opening can be kept largely when the tailgate is opened. In order to achieve the above object, a parcel shelf comprising: a front shelf having a front end rotatably supported by a vehicle body; a rear shelf fixed to a tailgate; and a strap to connect the tailgate to a position apart from the front end of the front shelf in a rear direction, in which when the tailgate is opened, the front shelf is apart from the rear shelf, and when the tailgate is closed, the front shelf is in touch with the rear shelf is provided.

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Novi, MI, United States of America

Yuichiro Umeda