Abstract: A handle in which a sensor layer capable of detecting grip is disposed on a gripping portion that is gripped at a time of steering. The gripping portion includes a core material, a covering layer formed of urethane foam, which is disposed by die-molding so as to cover a periphery of the core material, the sensor layer, and a protective layer covering the sensor layer. The sensor layer is formed of a mold coat agent formed of a urethane-based paint containing a conductive material. The mold coat agent is applied to a die surface of a molding die of the covering layer. At a time of molding the covering layer, the sensor layer formed of the mold coat agent is disposed on a surface side of the covering layer.

Abstract: An airbag includes: a bag main body: and regulating units configured to regulate an expansion completed shape of the bag main body. The bag main body has an expansion completed shape as a substantially square cylindrical shape, where a hollow portion which penetrates substantially along a left-right direction is provided and a circumference of the hollow portion is surrounded by an upper expansion portion and a lower expansion portion and a front expansion portion and a rear expansion portion. The regulating units are arranged at a plurality of horizontally symmetrical locations centered on a center of the bag main body on the left-right directional side and each of the regulating units is configured to straddle the hollow portion when viewed from a lateral side in the left-right direction and at least an upper edge side and a lower edge side are connected to the bag main body side.

Abstract: An airbag apparatus is configured to be used for a vehicle seat including an accommodation portion. The airbag apparatus includes an airbag. The airbag is configured such that a portion of the airbag ejected from the accommodation portion to the position beside the headrest is deployed and inflated in a position rearward of the seat back, and is inflated and deployed away from the accommodation portion in the width direction in a position rearward of the headrest, and that another portion of the airbag ejected from the accommodation portion to the position beside the headrest is deployed and inflated in a position forward of the seat back, and is deployed and inflated in a position forward of a head of an occupant seated in the vehicle seat and away from the accommodation portion in the width direction, so as to wrap around the head.

Abstract: A light emitting device includes plural light emitting elements arranged on a substrate in lines and individually emit light each other. The light emitting device includes a single continuous n-type semiconductor layer on the substrate shared by the plural light emitting elements, a single continuous light emitting layer on the n-type semiconductor layer shared by the plural light emitting elements, a single continuous p-type semiconductor layer on the light emitting layer shared by the plural light emitting elements, a single continuous contact electrode film on the p-type semiconductor layer shared by the plural light emitting elements, and plural p-side bonding electrodes on the contact electrode film respectively used for the plural light emitting elements. The contact electrode film and the p-type semiconductor layer are configured so as to control current diffusion in in-plane directions thereof.

Abstract: A pedestrian airbag device includes an airbag, which is housed folded in a vicinity of a rear end of a hood panel, and an inflator that supplies an inflating gas to the airbag. The airbag includes a vehicle body side wall portion disposed on a body side when inflation is completed, and a pedestrian side wall portion disposed opposing the vehicle body side wall portion. An internal pressure maintenance chamber is enclosed by a peripheral wall coupled to the vehicle body side wall portion and the pedestrian side wall portion, and is configured such that an inflating gas discharged from the inflator can flow into an interior via a general inflating portion in the airbag. A check valve mechanism that prevents a backflow to the general inflating portion side of the inflating gas that has flowed into the interior is disposed in the internal pressure maintenance chamber.

Abstract: An airbag apparatus attachment mechanism includes a holder, a supporting member, an urging member, and a functional member. The holder is fastened to a metal core with a fastening member. The supporting member protrudes further forward than an airbag apparatus and is inserted into the holder. The urging member urges the airbag apparatus rearward. The functional member is attached to a part of the supporting member that is inserted in the holder. The functional member includes a spring portion that is thinner than a gap between the supporting member and the holder. The spring portion is disposed in the gap. The functional member is configured such that the spring portion is elastically deformed in a radial direction of the supporting member due to vibration of the airbag apparatus, thereby suppressing the vibration.

Abstract: An oil pump includes: a housing case made of a metal and having a rotor housing portion in which a rotor is rotatably housed, and a discharge hole through which oil within the rotor housing portion is introduced to the outside of the rotor housing portion by rotation of the rotor; and a housing made of a resin and having a case holding portion in which the rotor housing portion is held, and a discharge groove portion provided on a bottom portion of the case holding portion. The housing case has a fitting groove portion that is provided on a bottom portion of the rotor housing portion and that is fitted to the discharge groove portion so as to cover the discharge groove portion. The discharge hole is formed in the fitting groove portion.

Abstract: A fuel device assembly including a valve assembly and a baffle plate, the valve assembly including a valve cover and a first weld plate provided at an upper end of the valve cover coupling the valve assembly to an interior-facing surface a fuel tank of a vehicle, the baffle plate including a body having a plurality of spaced apart holes formed therein and a housing member extending from the body for receiving and lockingly engaging the valve assembly.

Abstract: An airbag module includes an airbag, an inflator, and a mounting retainer. The airbag includes an inflation chamber, an inflation port for the inflation chamber, and a neck that opens into the inflation chamber around the inflation port. The airbag further includes a pocket. The pocket is located on the neck and opens away from the neck and the inflation port. The inflator is configured to be inserted into the neck and inflate the inflation chamber through the inflation port. The mounting retainer is configured to be installed to the neck in the pocket, receive and support the inflator, and mount the airbag to a vehicle.

Abstract: A valve assembly includes a case, a bottom cap provided at a lower end of the case, a lower float provided within an open interior of the case, an upper float provided within the open interior of the case between the lower float and the upper end of the case, and a biasing member biasing the lower float and the upper float toward the upper end of the case. The lower float includes a canister having an upper end and a rim extending from the upper end of the canister. A pair of openings is formed within the rim adjacent the upper end of the canister and partially defined by a curvilinear edge. The upper float includes a pair of legs, each leg received within a corresponding opening.

Abstract: An airbag device includes an airbag including: an outer bag; and an inner bag disposed so as to inflate inside the outer bag and having supply ports through which the inflation gas is supplied to the outer bag, the outer hag and the inner hag sharing the inflow opening and the attachment portion. At least one of the supply ports is provided as a lower side supply port disposed in the lower side wall portion, and a gas guide tether that connects a vicinity of an outer edge side of the lower side supply port and the vehicle body side wall portion so as to be able to guide the inflation gas supplied from the lower side supply port to the vehicle body side wall portion side in an inner peripheral surface of the outer bag along a radial direction centered on the inflow opening is provided.

Abstract: A side airbag apparatus is employed in a vehicle seat that includes a seat back and a seat belt guide. The seat back includes an accommodation portion in a lateral portion. The seat belt guide is attached to the lateral portion at a location above the accommodation portion. The side airbag apparatus includes a gas generator, an airbag, and a pressure receiving member. The gas generator and the airbag are installed in the accommodation portion. The pressure receiving member is arranged rearward of the airbag, and includes a main body and an upper restricting portion. The main body includes a pressure receiving surface, which extends along an axis of the gas generator. The upper restricting portion is located above and adjacent to the main body and includes an upper restricting surface located forward of an imaginary upward extension of the pressure receiving surface.

Abstract: A glove compartment lock device includes: a base member attached to a glove compartment; a knob member supported by the base member so as to be rotatable around a shaft portion between a closed position and an opened position; an arm member supported at a center portion in a longitudinal direction thereof by the base member so as to be swingable between a locked position and an unlocked position of the glove compartment and configured to come into contact with the knob member at one end portion thereof; and a spring member locked at one end portion thereof to the knob member, locked at another end portion thereof to another end portion of the arm member, and configured to generate a biasing force that rotates the knob member to the closed position and swings the arm member to the locked position.

Abstract: A pedestrian airbag device includes an airbag and an inflator that supplies an inflating gas to the airbag. In the airbag, an insertion opening portion for inserting the inflator into the airbag is disposed on the vehicle body side wall portion side. The insertion opening portion includes an insertion slit for inserting the main body portion of the inflator, and an insertion hole for causing the mounting bolt of the inflator to protrude. A guide tether for guiding when the inflator is inserted is disposed inside the airbag so that one end side is joined to the pedestrian side wall portion side, and the other end side is joined to a region on a side from the insertion hole in a peripheral edge of the insertion slit on the vehicle body side wall portion side.

Abstract: An airbag device includes an airbag, a blocking member that can adjust an exhaust hole of the airbag to a blocked state and an opened state, a coupling member, and a holding and releasing unit, which maintains a state of blocking the exhaust hole by holding the coupling member. When the holding and releasing unit releases the holding of the coupling member, the blocking member inverts in such a way as to be fed out from an inner peripheral face side of the airbag to an outer peripheral face side through the exhaust hole owing to being pressed by inflating gas, and causes inflating gas to be discharged from a through hole formed between leading end regions of outer peripheral edges of a first panel portion and a second panel portion in the blocking member and a communication hole communicating with the exhaust hole.

Abstract: In an apparatus producing hydrogen gas by a decomposition reaction of water using a photocatalyst, the water is warmed with waste heat of a light source for improving the production efficiency of hydrogen gas. The hydrogen gas producing apparatus 1 comprises a container portion receiving water; a photocatalyst body, dispersed or placed in the water, having a photocatalyst material to generate excited electrons and electron holes by irradiation of light, causing the decomposition reaction of water which decomposes water into hydrogen and oxygen to generate hydrogen gas; a light source emitting the light to be irradiated to the photocatalyst body; and a housing carrying the light source; wherein the housing is placed in the water, which is warmed by the waste heat of the light source discharged from the housing surface which is coated with a photocatalyst material.

Abstract: The vehicle interior component includes a front surface side space and a slit. A light emitting part, which is disposed on a vehicle interior outer side with respect to at least one of the vehicle interior outer side end of the panel lower portion of the upper panel and the vehicle interior outer side end of the panel upper portion of the lower panel and emits light emitted obliquely upward toward an inside of a vehicle interior through the slit, is provided.

Abstract: A vehicle position guidance system includes a terminal position measurement section, a vehicle position measurement section, a calculator, and a guide. The terminal position measurement section measures a position of a terminal carried by a user. The vehicle position measurement section measures a position of a parked vehicle. The calculator obtains a route using position information related to the terminal and position information related to the parked vehicle. The guide assists the user in entering the vehicle by selectively using a first guidance and a second guidance depending on whether a distance is long or short between the terminal and the parked vehicle on the route. The first guidance provides guidance to the position of the parked vehicle using the terminal. The second guidance provides guidance to the position of the parked vehicle through a notification using a vehicle on-board device of the parked vehicle.

Abstract: The present invention provides a semiconductor device relaxing the electric field concentration in a gate insulating film just below a gate electrode, and a production method therefor. The semiconductor device has a third semiconductor layer, a gate insulating film, a gate electrode, and a passivation film. The gate insulating film has a gate electrode contact region being in contact with the gate electrode, and a gate electrode non-contact region not being in contact with the gate electrode. The passivation film has a dielectric constant higher than the dielectric constant of the gate insulating film. A thickness of the gate electrode contact region and a thickness of the gate electrode non-contact region satisfy the following equation 0.8?t2/t1<1.

Abstract: A cellulose fiber-reinforced polyolefin resin composition contains a polyolefin resin, a cellulose fiber having a fiber length of 1 ?m or more, an acid-modified elastomer, and high-density polyethylene. In the composition, an amount of the cellulose fiber is 6 to 95 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the polyolefin resin, an amount of the acid-modified elastomer is 0.5 to 1.2 times by mass the amount of the cellulose fiber; and, an amount of the high-density polyethylene is 15 to 55 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the polyolefin resin.