Abstract: An air-conditioning register includes an operation knob. The operation knob includes a knob body and a cap with its downstream end portion closed by a lens. The cap is made of a material softer than those of the knob body and the lens. The inner circumferential portion of the upstream end portion of the cap is pressed against the outer circumferential portion of the knob body with at least a part engaged with the outer circumferential portion of the knob body by a projection-recess relationship. The inner circumferential portion of the downstream end portion of the cap is pressed against the outer circumferential portion of the lens with at least a part engaged with the outer circumferential portion of the lens by a projection-recess relationship.

Abstract: A glass run includes: a main body portion including a base portion, an inner side wall portion and an outer side wall portion; an inner side seal lip; and an outer side seal lip, wherein; the inner side seal lip includes a protruding portion on a rear surface so as to have a protruding surface; and in a case where the door glass inserted into the main body portion is displaced from a reference position to the inside of the vehicle, a state is changeable between a first support state where a tip end portion of a sub-lip and the protruding surface abut against each other and slide, and a second support state where the tip end portion is separated from the protruding surface and a part on a root side than the tip end portion abuts against the protruding portion.

Abstract: An opening and closing mechanism of a double opening storage device including a box main body and a lid body includes a rod and an engagement hole corresponding to a first rotating shaft, a rod and an engagement hole corresponding to a second rotating shaft, first and second biasing members that engage the rods with the engagement holes, first and second operation units that displace the rods in an engagement-releasing direction by an opening operation, and a malfunction prevention device that prevents the opening operation of the first operation unit and the second operation unit from being performed at the same time. The malfunction prevention device includes a base member, first and second stoppers that are respectively rotatable around a first shaft and a second shaft with respect to the base member, and a spring member which is interposed between the first and second stoppers.

Abstract: A head-protecting airbag device includes: an airbag loaded in a vehicle as a completely folded body folded to be storable in the storage portion; and a regulation member, to be arranged near a bent portion in the completely folded body at a time of conveyance. The regulation member is formed of a belt-shaped body having flexibility, and capable of regulating a twist of the completely folded body at the bent portion when the completely folded body is assembled into the vehicle. In a state where a protrusion part is engaged with a periphery of an assembly hole, both front and rear sides of the protrusion part are wrapped together with the completely folded body by a wrapping material. A length dimension of a portion between the assembly holes is set to be a length dimension which disenables one turn of twist in a circumferential direction of the completely folded body.

Abstract: A steering wheel is provided with a heater element on the rim. The heater element is mounted at least on a part of a core of the rim, and a cladding layer formed from synthetic resin foam covers an outer circumference of the heater element. The heater element includes a cord-shaped heater and a base material. The base material includes an insulation sheet that is formed from synthetic resin foam and disposed to face towards the core and a permeable sheet that is formed from non-metal which allows permeation of the cladding layer. The insulation sheet and permeable sheet are bonded together and sandwich and support the cord-shaped heater there between.

Abstract: A knee protection airbag device includes: a case including a circumferential wall part surrounding a protrusion opening and extending in a front side; and an airbag cover, made by rigidity resin, covering the protrusion opening and being connected to the case. The airbag cover includes: a connection wall part which extends forward from a front side of the decorative panel, and is arranged to cover an upper side of an upper wall part on an upper side in the circumferential wall part of the case. The connection wall part includes an engaging hole. The upper wall part includes a metal engaging hook protruding upward to be inserted into the engaging hole. The airbag cover includes a shield part configured to hide the engaging hook from a visual line. The shield part is integrally formed during molding of the airbag cover.

Abstract: An airbag apparatus includes an airbag and an inflator. The airbag is configured to be deployed and inflated by the inflation gas at a position forward of a vehicle seat. The airbag includes a main bag member, an auxiliary bag member, and a tether. The main bag member is configured to be attached to a base member located at a position forward of the vehicle seat in the vehicle. The inflation gas is supplied from the inflator to the main bag member. The auxiliary bag member has a smaller volume than the main bag member and projects rearward from the main bag member. The tether extends across a boundary portion between the main bag member and the auxiliary bag member. A communicating portion, which allows communication between the main bag member and the auxiliary bag member, is provided around the tether in the boundary portion.

Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a plurality of semiconductor laser elements including a first semiconductor laser element, and a plurality of reflectors including a first reflector for reflecting light emitted from the first semiconductor laser element, each of reflectors reflecting light emitted from corresponding one of the plurality of semiconductor laser elements. Light emitted from the first semiconductor laser element passes through a gap between two of the plurality of reflectors excluding the first reflector and reaches the first reflector. Lights emitted from the plurality of semiconductor laser elements are extracted in a direction different than an incident direction thereof toward the plurality of reflectors.

Abstract: In a deep ultraviolet light-emitting device comprising a Group III nitride semiconductor, the concentrations of electrons and holes injected into a light-emitting layer is improved. A barrier layer has a last barrier layer closest to an electron blocking layer. The electron blocking layer has a first electron blocking layer closest to a light-emitting layer. The last barrier layer has a first position farthest from the first electron blocking layer, and a second position as an interface with the first electron blocking layer. The first electron blocking layer has a third position farthest from the last barrier layer. The Al composition ratio at the first position is higher than the Al composition ratio at the second position. The Al composition ratio at the third position is higher than the Al composition ratio at the first and second positions.

Abstract: An airbag is installed in a storage section of an instrument panel. The airbag includes a bag body, a part of which is constituted by a peripheral wall panel section. The peripheral wall panel section includes a pair of panels arranged in the vehicle width direction. At least one of the panels includes an assembled panel, in which adjacent fabric pieces are joined by a peripheral edge joint section. The assembled panel includes a support inflation section, which, when the bag body is deployed and inflated, projects outward of the bag body further than the other sections of the assembled panel so as to be in contact with the instrument panel. The support inflation section is constituted by a part of the peripheral edge joint section and a part of each of the two fabric pieces that are joined by the peripheral edge joint section.

Abstract: An ion exchanger for a cooling system of a fuel cell system includes: a communicating pipe part with the two ends thereof configured respectively to be connectable to predetermined piping arranged in the cooling system, and including a substantially linear shaped first flow path; and a storage case including a second flow path configured such that, when a part of the coolant introduced into the communicating pipe part branches from the coolant of the communicating pipe part and flows toward the second flow path, such partial coolant, after introduced into the second flow path, is allowed to flow therethrough and join again the remaining coolant of the communicating pipe part, while ion exchange resin is stored in the second flow path, wherein an introduction device for introducing the coolant into the second flow path is arranged in the inside of the communicating pipe part.

Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a semiconductor device, the method facilitating removal of a growth substrate from a semiconductor layer. A decomposition layer formation step involves extension of a plurality of threading dislocations during growth of a decomposition layer. A bridging portion formation step involves exposure of the threading dislocations to the surface of a bridging portion. A decomposition step involves widening of the threading dislocations exposed to the surface of the bridging portion, to thereby provide a plurality of through holes penetrating the bridging portion; decomposition of at least a portion of the decomposition layer exposed in the interior of the through holes; and discharge of a decomposition product generated through decomposition of the decomposition layer via the through holes to the outside of the bridging portion, to thereby provide a first void in a portion of a region where the decomposition layer has remained.

Abstract: A steering wheel includes a gripping portion that is gripped by a driver when a conveyance is steered, a light source that is disposed inside the gripping portion and is configured to emit light, a light guide body that is disposed inside the gripping portion such that an end portion of the light guide body faces the light source, the light guide body including an emission surface that is configured to emit light from the light source and incident on the end portion and that is formed on a surface on a driver side, and a covering portion that surrounds the light guide body and forms an outer layer portion of at least a part of the gripping portion around the light guide body. The covering portion is formed with a hole, through which light emitted from the emission surface passes.

Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a circuit board including a wiring on a surface of a substrate, the wiring including a raised portion, and a light-emitting element mounted on the raised portion. When the light-emitting element is of a flip-chip type, an element electrode thereof is connected to the raised portion such that an edge of the element electrode on an outer periphery side of the light-emitting element is located outside of the raised portion in a top view and an exposed portion of the element electrode is covered with a white or transparent resin. When the light-emitting element is of a face-up type, an element substrate thereof is bonded to the raised portion such that the raised portion is located inside the element substrate in the top view and an exposed portion of a bottom surface of the element substrate is covered with a white resin.

Abstract: To remove a deteriorated layer generated in forming a scribing trench by laser irradiation. A scribing trench is formed by irradiating a laser beam along a device dividing line on the rear surface of a substrate. At this time, a deteriorated layer is formed on the bottom surface or side surface of the scribing trench. Next, a protective film is formed so as to cover the entire top surface of the device structure, and the deteriorated layer is removed by wet etching. Wet etching is performed by alternately repeating BHF (buffered hydrofluoric acid) wet etching and MEA (monoethanolamine) wet etching several times.

Abstract: An airbag package of an airbag for head protection includes a rolled portion formed by rolling a skin material of the airbag as laid flat, and a compressed region in which a void space formed at the center of the cross-sectional surface of the rolled portion has been crushed due to compression. The rolled portion includes, in the cross-sectional surface, an upper layered portion, a lower layered portion, and a pair of side layered portions that are disposed around the center of the cross-sectional surface of the rolled portion and each have layers of the skin material. In the compressed region, each of the side layered portions bends generally at the center in an up and down direction such that the bent regions butt against each other and are packed between the upper layered portion and the lower layered portion in such a manner as to fill the void space.

Abstract: A mounting structure of a camera, includes: a camera configured to image an image corresponding to at least a part of surroundings of a vehicle; and a decorative member configured to be mounted on an exterior component of the vehicle and to cover the camera, wherein: the decorative member closely contacts the exterior component, and covers the camera in such a manner that the camera is not disturbed to image the image; and the camera is disposed in a region of an inside of the decorative member from an external surface of the decorative member.

Abstract: A light emitting device, which includes a plurality of light emitting elements each having a different chromaticity of emission light, to emit mixed light produced by mixing the respective emission light of the plurality of light emitting elements together, includes a receiving section to obtain command information on the mixed light, a driving section to perform a PWM drive on the plurality of light emitting elements on the basis of the command information, and a storing section to store correction information to be set on the basis of measurement results on the respective emission light of the plurality of light emitting elements. The driving section is being configured in such a manner as to, on the basis of the correction information, correct a duty ratio in the PWM drive to be set in accordance with the command information, and perform the PWM drive on the plurality of light emitting elements.

Abstract: A side airbag device includes: an airbag which is stored in a storage part provided on a side of an occupant sitting on a seat of a vehicle in a normal posture, and is deployed and inflated forward between the occupant and a side wall part by an inflation gas supplied from a gas generator in response to an impact applied from a side to the side wall part of the vehicle; an exhaust port configured to exhaust an inflation gas, the exhaust port being provided with the airbag and open toward a direction along a wall surface of the side wall part; and an opening varying mechanism configured to reduce an opening area of the exhaust port in a later stage of deployment and inflation of the airbag compared to an initial stage.

Abstract: A completely folded body of an airbag includes: a folded body and a retainer, which is assembled to the folded body, including: an annular bottom wall portion; a plurality of fixing units; and a reinforcing rib, wherein: the folded body of the airbag is configured in such a folded shape that the airbag is folded to be gathered to an upper side of the retainer; the folded body is arranged with a bottom wall cover portion and a bottom wall separated portion which extends from the bottom wall cover portion; and the bottom wall separated portion includes a stepped surface having a vertical surface bent upward from the bottom wall cover portion, and a horizontal surface which is disposed above the bottom wall cover portion from an upper end of the vertical surface and extends toward an outer circumferential edge of the bottom wall separated portion.