Abstract: A console box includes a box body, storage, a side table, a shaft, a shaft support arranged above the storage, and a rotation stopper. The storage is located in a side portion of the box body with respect to a widthwise direction of a vehicle seat. The side table is vertically movable between a storage position and an intermediate position. The shaft is located at a lower end of the side table when in the upright state. The shaft support rotatably supports the shaft so that the side table rotates about the shaft away from the box body in the widthwise direction from the intermediate position to a usage position. The rotation stopper restricts rotation of the side table beyond the usage position.

Abstract: A console box includes a box main body having an upper opening, and a lid that opens and closes the upper opening. The lid includes a lid main body, a pivot, and an operation portion. The pivot is provided at one side in a width direction of the lid main body and couples the lid main body to the box main body. The operation portion is provided to correspond to the pivot, and decouples the pivot and the box main body from each other when operated. The lid is configured to be pivotal about the pivot and to be detached from the box main body when the operation portion is operated.

Abstract: A stacked body, including a reflective electrode layer, an intermediate layer having a MgZnO composition, and a semiconductor layer having an AlGaN composition in this order, where a thickness of the intermediate layer is 1-80 nm. An emitting device containing the stacked body. A method of producing the stacked body.

Abstract: When an airbag is inflated by inflation gas flowing into the airbag, the airbag is inflated rearward while protruding upward from a storage portion on an upper surface side of an instrument panel. The airbag includes a bag main body and an outer tether portion disposed on an outer peripheral surface side of the bag main body. The bag main body has an upward recessed portion on a lower surface side of the front side with respect to an occupant side wall portion disposed on a rear surface side of the completely inflated bag main body. The outer tether portion is provided to connect a rear lower end side of the completely inflated bag main body and a front edge side of the recessed portion so that the rear lower end of the completely inflated bag main body can be disposed close to a rear surface of the instrument panel.

Abstract: A steering wheel includes a boss portion disposed at a rotation steering center side, a grip portion disposed around the boss portion, and an operation lever portion disposed between the boss portion and the grip portion. The operation lever portion is pivotally supported by a rotation shaft portion provided close to the boss portion, and is configured to allow a press-down operation and a pull-up operation while the grip portion is gripped. A press-down operation surface of the operation lever portion is disposed along a grip surface being an upper surface of the grip portion, at a side separated from the rotation shaft portion and close to the grip portion, between the grip surface and an upper surface of a pad covering an upper surface of the boss portion. The rotation shaft portion is disposed above a lower end surface of the grip portion to be covered with the pad.

Abstract: A passenger seat airbag device is disposed on an upper face side of an instrument panel, and includes an airbag that can inflate owing to an inflating gas flowing into an interior. The airbag includes a conduit portion connected to an inflator on a front end side and disposed in such a way as to extend approximately following a front-rear direction, and a main body inflation portion configured in such a way as to swell up and down and from left to right from a rear end side of the conduit portion and disposed to a rear side of the instrument panel. The main body inflation portion is configured in such a way that an upper end side is supported by a front windshield disposed above the instrument panel, and a lower front face side is supported by a rear face of the instrument panel when receiving an occupant.

Abstract: A housing unit doesn't include a configuration for fixing a lens cover and includes a housing contact part contacting the lens cover with respect to the reference direction. The lens cover doesn't include a configuration for fixing a lens mount and includes a lens cover contact part contacting the lens mount. The lens mount doesn't include a configuration for fixing a substrate and includes a lens mount contact part contacting the substrate. The substrate doesn't include a configuration for fixing a bottom wall unit and includes a substrate contact part contacting the bottom wall unit. The housing unit includes a housing engagement part. The bottom wall unit includes a bottom wall engagement part. The engagement between the housing engagement part and the bottom wall engagement part fixes the housing unit and the bottom wall unit relative to each other with respect to the reference direction.

Abstract: A steering device comprises: a rotary part provided in a manner allowing rotation about a rotary axis; a peripheral part arranged at a position farther from the rotary axis than the rotary part, and having a size in a direction of the rotary axis smaller than a size thereof in a direction of the rotation; and a light-emitting part provided at the rotary part. The light-emitting part includes: a light-emitting element; and a light-transmitting cover. The light-transmitting cover includes: a first surface where light from the light-emitting element is received; and a second surface on an opposite side to the first surface, and emitting the light received at the first surface toward the peripheral part. The light-transmitting cover includes: an inclined portion configured in such a manner that, as getting farther from the peripheral part along the second surface, the first surface gets closer to the second surface.

Abstract: A vehicle exterior component includes a cover, a housing, and a substrate. The cover is configured to arranged forward of a radar device in an emission direction of electromagnetic waves. The housing covers a rear surface of the cover. The substrate is arranged in the housing. The substrate includes a light emitting unit configured to emit visible light. The cover forms an angle in a range of 0° to 5° with respect to an orthogonal plane that is orthogonal to the emission direction. The rear wall of the housing faces the cover in the emission direction and forms an angle in a range of 2° to 10° with respect to the orthogonal plane.

Abstract: A steering wheel includes a boss portion connected to a steering center shaft of a vehicle, a steering part to be gripped by a driver of the vehicle and steered by being rotated about the steering center shaft, a light source provided inside the steering part, and a light emission portion provided on the steering part. The light emission portion transmits light emitted from the light source to emit the light from a rear surface of the steering part. A surface of the light emission portion is provided with a matte layer having transparency and containing fine particles for matting.

Abstract: Provided is an elastomer which is suitable for application in actuators or sensors, and which exhibits an appropriately low initial elastic modulus in a low deformation region. An elastomer composition containing the following components (A) to (D): component (A): a polyrotaxane; component (B): a crosslinking agent containing a second linear molecule having a molecular weight of 1,200 to 7,000, and a functional group disposed at both ends of the second linear molecule; component (C): a double-reactive component having a reactive group at both ends; and component (D): a single-reactive component having a reactive group at only one end, wherein at least a portion of the functional group in the component (B) is directly or indirectly bonded to the cyclic molecule in the component (A), and the elastomer composition exhibits an initial elastic modulus of 0.6 to 2 MPa.

Abstract: An airbag tether separation system includes an airbag tether separator having an explosive and a housing including a wall with at least one space formed in the wall. The tether separator is structured so that, when the explosive is activated, the explosive produces shockwaves causing separation of a portion of a tether extending between the explosive and the wall. At least a portion of the shockwaves also pass into the at least one space, from where they may pass through the space away from a separation region of the tether and to an exterior of the housing, or be reflected in a direction away from the separation region of the tether.

Abstract: A steering wheel for a vehicle includes an armature and a cap structured to be attached to the armature. The cap includes at least one projection structured to contact a portion of the armature when the cap is applied to the armature. The contact between the projection(s) and the armature is structured to form associated retentive contact interface(s) between the projection(s) and the armature. Each retentive contact interface operates to prevent or impede removal of the cap from the armature, thereby retaining the cap on the steering wheel under normal end-use conditions of the steering wheel.

Abstract: In an occupant protection device, an airbag disposed in a region of a lap belt of a seat belt includes a bag body and a conduit connected to an inflator disposed near a lower end of a seat portion of a seat. The airbag is held by the lap belt in a folded state. The conduit is disposed substantially along the lap belt while being held by a conduit holder. The conduit holder is formed of a material having flexibility and higher rigidity than the conduit, is disposed substantially along the conduit, and has both end sides fixed to a seat side and a bag body side, respectively, by a seat-side fixing portion or a bag body-side fixing portion.

Abstract: A heater for an airbag device includes a sheet-shaped heater body including a heat generation unit, and disposed to cover a vehicle interior surface side of an airbag cover and configured to generate heat to emit the radiation heat. The heater body is formed of a flexible woven fabric including a warp and a weft, and is provided with a dividing scheduled portion configured to be divided at a time of opening of a door portion at a position corresponding to the breakage scheduled portion formed in the airbag cover. The dividing scheduled portion is provided with, substantially along the breakage scheduled portion, main slits that are intermittently provided and sub slits disposed on at least one side of the main slits. The sub slits are disposed in the woven fabric to cut the warp or the weft implementing a portion of a coupling portion formed between the main slits.

Abstract: A steering wheel includes a control unit that executes an acceleration control or a deceleration control of a vehicle based on results of detections by a first contact detecting portion, a second contact detecting portion, a first operation detecting portion, and a second operation detecting portion. The control unit does not execute the acceleration control or the deceleration control based on an operation of a first operating portion when the first operating portion is operated in a state in which the first contact detecting portion is not detecting contact by a driver with a first gripping portion, and does not execute the acceleration control or the deceleration control based on an operation of a second operating portion when the second operating portion is operated in a state in which the second contact detecting portion is not detecting contact by the driver with a second gripping portion.

Abstract: A vehicle exterior part includes a decoration body including a layer structure formed by laminating layers in a front-rear direction, and includes a heater sheet including a transparent sheet base and a heater wire. The decoration body includes a transparent resin layer at a frontmost part of the decoration body and a decorative layer located rearward from the transparent resin layer. The transparent resin layer includes a general portion and an outer edge. A front surface of the general portion includes a general surface. The outer edge includes a bend surface that is curved or angular to a larger extent than the general surface. The sheet base includes a body located in front of the transparent resin layer and an extension extending from a periphery of the body. The body and a portion of the heater wire arranged on the body are located in front of only the general surface.

Abstract: An occupant protection device includes an airbag mounted on a seat of a vehicle and attached to a belt body of a seat belt in a folded state. The airbag is inflated so as to allow an inflation gas discharged from an inflator to flow into the airbag and protect an occupant seated on the seat while protruding forward. An airbag cover is formed in an elongated shape that can cover an outer periphery of part of the belt body and a folding completion body corresponding to a state where the airbag is folded, and is closed such that at least the belt body is allowed to be inserted therethrough at both ends in the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: A steering wheel includes an illumination unit, an illumination arrangement part where the illumination unit is arranged, and an outer coat layer made of a leather member. The illumination arrangement part includes a covering portion covered with the outer coat layer and a recess part is formed at the covering portion. The recess part houses a terminal portion of the leather member and at least a part of the illumination unit, and has an opening opened outwardly. The illumination unit includes a light-emitting part, and a closing member having permeability to light emitted from the light-emitting part and closing the opening of the recess part. The covering portion includes a recess part side wall forming section forming a side surface of the recess part, and a recess part bottom wall forming section forming a bottom surface of the recess part. The terminal portion of the leather member is arranged continuously along the recess part side wall forming section and the recess part bottom wall forming section.

Abstract: The present invention provides a flip-chip mounted monolithic micro LED having improved contrast. The light-emitting device includes a substrate, an n-type layer, a light-emitting layer, a p-type layer, a transparent electrode, a p-electrode, an n-electrode, a protective film, an absorbing structure, and a side wall insulating film. The absorbing structure is a layered body in which a dielectric film and a metal film are alternately deposited, and the top layer is a dielectric film. Reflected light of light emitted from the light-emitting layer or reflected light of light from the outside, or transmitted light from the backside of the substrate can be absorbed by the absorbing structure, thereby improving contrast.