Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080308338 | Pedestrian protection air bag system - There is provided a pedestrian protection air bag system M | 12-18-2008 |
20090001695 | OCCUPANT PROTECTION APPARATUS OF VEHICLE - An occupant protection apparatus includes an airbag and an inflator. The airbag is inflated and deployed between a first seat and a second seat, which are adjacent to each other in the vehicle width direction. The inflator supplies gas into the airbag. When the airbag is inflated and deployed, the airbag starts to be inflated and deployed in the vehicle width direction later than inflation and deployment in the vertical direction and the fore-and-aft direction of a vehicle. This permits the occupants seated in the first seat and the second seat to be restrained to the seats in an appropriate manner during inflation and deployment of the airbag. | 01-01-2009 |
20090084620 | Actuator - An actuator AE | 04-02-2009 |
20090102167 | Airbage apparatus for pedestrian protection - An airbag apparatus for pedestrian protection includes an airbag that emerges from an opening of a housing located below a front end of a hood panel and deploys upward and toward left and right. The airbag includes a protection portion that deploys along a foreface of a vehicle. The protection portion includes end regions for covering front faces of head lamps and the end regions are configured in a upward-bending manner from a central region. Contraction of the airbag at inflation is taken into account in order to configure a bending angle between each of the end regions and the central region as the airbag is flattened. | 04-23-2009 |
20090127016 | Pedestrian air bag system - A hood panel is arranged in a front end side of a vehicle so as to cover an engine room from above. An air bag system according to the invention includes an air bag which is disposed in a containing part near a front fender which is arranged at an end edge of the hood panel in a lateral direction, so as to cover the substantially entire area in a longitudinal direction of the front fender from above when the air bag has been completely inflated, and an inflator for supplying an inflating gas to the air bag. The air bag has a body part for covering the front fender from the above, and a flow inlet connected to the inflator. The flow inlet is provided in a frontward region of the body part forward from a center in the longitudinal direction in the completely inflated state. | 05-21-2009 |
20090242308 | Pedestrian protection system - A pedestrian protection system is mounted in the front portion of a vehicle, and includes a controller, a forward movement holding mechanism controlled in actuation by the controller, and a contact body that a pedestrian can contact. The controller, when having predicted a collision of a pedestrian with the vehicle based on a signal from a collision predicting sensor, actuates the forward movement holding mechanism to cause a forward movement of the contact body, and based on a signal from a turn sensor when the forward movement holding mechanism carries out an upward rotation or a downward rotation at the time of contact of the forwardly moved contact body with a pedestrian, controls actuation of the restraint body so as to correspond to a pedestrian moving to a front upper side of the vehicle and a pedestrian moving to a front lower side of the vehicle, respectively. | 10-01-2009 |
20090243268 | Occupant protection system - The occupant protection system includes a catching body that is housed in a housing located between a near-by seat and a distant seat for upward deployment and a support body that supports the catching body. The catching body covers the impact side of a distant-side occupant to catch the occupant moving toward the impacted lateral and includes a distal end acting as a free end swingable in a left and right direction. The support body is located on a side of the near-by seat close to the impacted lateral for deployment to support the catching body when the catching body swings toward the impacted lateral after receiving the distant-side occupant. | 10-01-2009 |
20100078923 | Moving body receiving system - A receiving system is installed on a vehicle and feeds out, when actuated, a receiving holder portion from a waiting position to a receiving position where the receiving holder portion can receive a moving body. The receiving system includes a holder base which is fixed to a waiting position side of the receiving holder portion, a drive mechanism and a plastically deformable member. The drive mechanism is connected to the holder base and the receiving holder portion and receives, when actuated, a drive force transmitted from a drive source, so as to feed out the receiving holder portion from the waiting position to the receiving position. The plastically deformable member is formed as a separate element from the receiving holder portion and is arranged so as to be supported on the holder base and the receiving holder portion, whereby when the receiving holder portion which has been disposed in the receiving position moves towards the waiting position side, the plastically deformable member is plastically deformed so as to absorb the kinetic energy of the moving body. | 04-01-2010 |
20100148476 | Air bag system - An air bag system includes an air bag which can cover a front surface side of a front pillar of a vehicle. The air bag includes an inflatable main body portion and a supporting inflatable portion. The inflatable main body portion covers a front surface of the front pillar when the air bag is inflated completely. The supporting inflatable portion stretches continuously from the inflation main body portion so as to extend towards an outside of the vehicle from the inflation main body portion and is disposed to be brought into abutment with an upper surface of a mirror main body of a door mirror which is in a usable position on a lower surface side so as to be supported thereon to thereby support the inflatable main body portion, when the air bag is inflated completely. | 06-17-2010 |
20100164203 | Air bag device for pedestrian - An air bag device for pedestrian includes an inflator which discharges an inflating gas, in operation, and an air bag which is inflated with the inflating gas supplied from the inflator thereby to cover a front face of the front pillar. The air bag is contained in a folded state, in an area covered with the front fender panel which is positioned in front of a front pillar and outside of a vehicle along a lateral direction of a hood panel. The front fender panel includes a cover part which is positioned at its back edge close to the front pillar, and arranged so as to cover an upper part of the air bag in the folded state. The cover part is deformed and opened, when it is pressed with the air bag which is being inflated, thereby to protrude the air bag so that the air bag can cover the front face side of the front pillar. | 07-01-2010 |
20100237595 | Side airbag apparatus and method for folding airbag - A side airbag apparatus | 09-23-2010 |
20100244413 | Air bag system - An air bag system M includes an air bag | 09-30-2010 |
20100252350 | Air bag system - An air bag system M | 10-07-2010 |