| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7240920 |
Vehicle occupant knee protection apparatus |
July 10, 2007 |
| A vehicle occupant knee protection apparatus for protecting the knees of an occupant when collision energy acts on a vehicle. The occupant knee protection apparatus comprises a knee protection member, a contact force detector, a controller, and a drive unit. The knee protection member is |
| 7200474 |
Vehicle occupant protection apparatus |
April 3, 2007 |
| Protection apparatus includes: a seat back pivotable between reclined and upright positions; a pivoting-angle adjustment section for adjusting the pivoting angle of the seat back through a motor; a prediction section for predicting an object likely to collide against the vehicle from beh |
| 6863308 |
Automotive vehicle occupant protection system |
March 8, 2005 |
| An end of a seat belt is connected to an actuator that can selectively remove a slack from the seat belt. The actuator includes a main actuator unit, a flywheel which provides a maximum inertia effect for a given space, and a cushioning member for decelerating a movement of the moveable |
| 6851505 |
Occupant protective apparatus |
February 8, 2005 |
| The present occupant protective apparatus includes a vehicle body in which a portion to be deformed on receiving a collision load (in the illustrated embodiment, the front side frames) is formed at least in front of a vehicle room (3), a structure made of a rigid body supported on the |
| 6843504 |
Automotive vehicle occupant protection system |
January 18, 2005 |
| An end of a seat belt is connected to an actuator that can selectively remove a slack from the seat belt. The actuator includes a main actuator unit, and a cushioning member for decelerating a movement of the moveable end of the seat belt following a certain initial travel of the moveabl |
| 6824187 |
Vehicle occupant protection apparatus |
November 30, 2004 |
| A lock plate and a movable plate are provided to fix a seat at an optional position, and an actuator is provided between the seat and the movable plate. The seat is moved to the rear of a vehicle body in an initial stage of impact by the actuator. Acceleration is generated in the seat th |
| 6705645 |
Vehicle occupant protection system |
March 16, 2004 |
| In a vehicle occupant protection system comprising a seat for seating a vehicle occupant in a passenger compartment of a vehicle, and a seat belt for restraining a vehicle occupant seated in the seat, the seat belt is pulled rearward by a power actuator in an early stage of a vehicle cra |
| 6644723 |
Vehicle occupant side crash protection system |
November 11, 2003 |
| A vehicle seat is mounted on a floor in a laterally inwardly moveable manner, and is accelerated by a crash load input member, which is more rigid than the remaining part of the vehicle body, inwardly upon occurrence of a vehicle side crash. The vehicle occupant is firmly held to the |
| 6604771 |
Vehicle occupant protection apparatus |
August 12, 2003 |
| A lock plate and a movable plate are provided to fix a seat at an optional position, and an actuator is provided between the seat and the movable plate. The seat is moved to the rear of a vehicle body in an initial stage of impact by the actuator. Acceleration is generated in the seat th |
| 6592166 |
Vehicle occupant side crash protection system |
July 15, 2003 |
| A vehicle seat is mounted on a floor in a laterally inwardly moveable manner, and is accelerated by a power actuator inwardly upon detection of a vehicle side crash. The vehicle occupant is firmly held to the seat. By thus appropriately controlling the time history of the lateral acc |
| 6578894 |
Automotive vehicle occupant protection system |
June 17, 2003 |
| In an automotive vehicle occupant protection system, the vehicle body comprises a chassis and a vehicle body main part mounted on said chassis in a relatively moveable manner in a fore-and-aft direction, and an arrangement for engaging a vehicle body main part to the chassis under no |
| 6454351 |
Occupant protective apparatus |
September 24, 2002 |
| An apparatus includes one or more seats 1 respectively supported on a vehicle body so as to be movable along the direction of a force acting on the vehicle body in the case of a collision. Each seat 1 includes an inertia mass member, supported on the vehicle body in such a manner that, |
| 6422632 |
Vehicle occupant protection system |
July 23, 2002 |
| As a moveable part of the vehicle body carrying a vehicle seat moves rearward under the action of an active or passive power source as a result of a vehicle crash, the seat belt which is anchored at the moveable part at one end and a fixed part of the vehicle body at another end is pulle |
| 6402218 |
Seat belt pretensioner device powered by vehicle body deformation |
June 11, 2002 |
| Provided is a seat belt pretensioner device for a seat belt having a plurality of anchor points attached to different parts of a vehicle body which includes a G control vehicle body member which deforms in a different pattern from a remaining part of the vehicle body at the time of a |
| 6398292 |
Vehicle body structure for improved crash safety |
June 4, 2002 |
| In an automotive vehicle body structure including a crash load transmitting member extending from a front end of the vehicle body to a part adjacent to the floor member, and integrally carrying a seat thereon, a stopper is fixedly attached to the main frame, and adapted to abut a part of |
| 6398285 |
Occupant protective apparatus |
June 4, 2002 |
| The occupant protective apparatus includes one or more seats 1 respectively supported on a car body so as to be movable along the direction of a force acting on the car body in the case of a car collision and each including a seat belt 3 for restricting an occupant 2 seated on the seat 1 |
| 6378929 |
Occupant protective apparatus |
April 30, 2002 |
| By supporting a weight member in such a manner that it can be moved forward to a certain degree in the case of the car collision, the seeming inertial mass of the car body in the initial stage of the car collision is reduced to generate larger deceleration than the average deceleration i |
| 6312038 |
Automotive vehicle body structure |
November 6, 2001 |
| In an automotive vehicle body structure comprising a seat carrying member that is moveable with respect to the main part of the vehicle body at the time of a vehicle crash so as to reduce the peak deceleration of the vehicle occupant in the seat, the seat carrying member comprises an |
| 6203098 |
Automotive vehicle body structure demonstrating a controlled reaction load |
March 20, 2001 |
| In an automotive vehicle body structure, including a longitudinal member having a first portion and a second portion connected in series to provide a controlled reaction force at the time of a vehicle crash, the second portion is adapted to undergo a buckling or collapsing deformation wh |
| 6193296 |
Vehicle occupant protection system |
February 27, 2001 |
| The vehicle occupant protection system can significantly reduce the peak deceleration of the vehicle occupant even with a small vehicle body. The system comprises a seat fitted with a seat belt which is supported on a vehicle body so as to be slidable in a direction of an input crash loa |
| 6186574 |
Vehicle occupant protection system |
February 13, 2001 |
| The vehicle occupant protection system can significantly reduce the peak deceleration of the vehicle occupant even with a small vehicle body. The system comprises a seat supported on a vehicle body so as to be slidable in a direction of an input crash load resulting from a vehicle crash; |
| 5634664 |
Safety seat belt device |
June 3, 1997 |
| A safety seat belt device for use in a motor vehicle has a seal belt for constraining an occupant of the motor vehicle. The seat belt includes a shoulder belt portion for extending across the thorax of the occupant and a lap belt portion for extending across the lower waist of the occupa |
| 5462308 |
Occupant protecting system for vehicle |
October 31, 1995 |
| An occupant protecting system for a vehicle includes a triangular shock absorbing member which is accommodated in a folded state within an accommodating casing mounted along a roof rail. The shock absorbing member is held stationarily at its front and rear ends to a vehicle body by f |
| 5156417 |
Seat belt forwarding device |
October 20, 1992 |
| A seat belt forwarding device having a seat belt forwarding arm which has a base end pivotally mounted on a side of a rear part of a vehicle seat and a free end carrying an end of a seat belt, and can rotate between a waiting position in which the seat belt forwarding arm extends rearwar |
| 4968059 |
Seat belt retractor system having seat belt tightening means |
November 6, 1990 |
| A seat belt retractor system comprising a seat belt retractor unit having a winding spool for winding a seat belt thereon, and a seat belt tightening unit for tightening the seat belt upon detection of occurrence of a vehicle crash. The seat belt tightening unit is placed lower than the |
| 4932722 |
Seat belt tightening system incorporated with a vehicle seat |
June 12, 1990 |
| A seat belt tightening system incorporated with a vehicle seat, comprising: a deceleration sensor for detecting deceleration indicative of occurence of a vehicle crash; a tensioning unit for tensioning a seat belt; a power unit for activating the tensioning unit upon receiving an output |
| 4927172 |
Mechanical acceleration sensor |
May 22, 1990 |
| A mechanical acceleration sensor includes a housing and a weight which is rotatably supported by the housing. An actuating member for triggering an output device is mounted on an actuating arm which is rotatable in the same direction as the weight and abuts against the weight from one |
| 4925212 |
Seat belt tightening system adapted to be mounted on an adjustable seat |
May 15, 1990 |
| A seat belt tightening system adapted to be used in conjunction with a vehicle seat whose position can be adjusted, comprising: a deceleration sensor mounted on a vehicle body; a drive unit mounted on the vehicle body for producing drive power in response to detection of acceleration |
| 4728141 |
Automotive rear shelf structure |
March 1, 1988 |
| A cable retractor having a spring loaded reel for winding a cable thereonto. The tension applied to the cable by the cable retractor is made to change as the take out length of the cable changes either by changing the effective radius of the reel or the effective spring constant of a |
| 4597470 |
Car speaker system |
July 1, 1986 |
| A car speaker system which can be used to radiate sound either inside the vehicle in normal driving use or outside the vehicle when the vehicle is parked. A plurality of speaker units are mounted in a closed cabinet and the cabinet is swingably mounted along one side thereof in a casing. |
