Abstract: An armrest includes a base member serving as a framework, a cushioning pad provided on the base member, a cover wrapping the base member and the cushioning pad, and a planar heater disposed such that an electric heating wire is laid between the cushioning pad and the cover. The base member has an outer peripheral surface having a curved surface that is curved downward from an upper surface of the base member. The cushioning pad has a curved cover that covers the outer peripheral surface of the base member across the upper surface and the curved surface. The heater has a curved portion disposed such that the heating wire is laid between the curved cover and the cover.

Abstract: A floor lock release mechanism includes an arm member, a lever, a switching member, a lever biasing member, and a switching member biasing member. The lever is rotatable between a rearward rotational position and a forward rotational position. The lever biasing member biases the lever toward a neutral position. The switching member is rotatable between a locked position and an unlocked position. The switching member biasing member biases the switching member toward the locked position. The lever includes a pressed portion and a pressing portion. The pressing portion is arranged on the same side as a side on which the pressed portion is arranged with respect to a straight line orthogonal to a straight line connecting the pressed portion and a rotation center.

Abstract: A fuel cell stack includes power generation cells, which are stacked in a vertical direction. Each power generation cell is configured to generated power by using gas. Each power generation cell includes a first hole and a second hole. The first holes of the power generation cells form a gas manifold. The gas manifold extends in the vertical direction, and the gas flows through the gas manifold. The second holes of the power generation cells form a passage. The passage is adjacent to the gas manifold and extends in the vertical direction. The gas manifold and the passage are connected to each other at upper ends of the gas manifold and the passage.

Abstract: A wire harness attachment structure for a vehicle seat capable of being flipped up from a usage position where the vehicle seat is disposed on a floor to a storage position where the vehicle seat is disposed along a standing wall portion of a vehicle body, includes: a rotation shaft that couples the vehicle seat to the standing wall portion; a guide member including a pair of wall portions arranged to face each other in an axial direction of the rotation shaft, and being partly opened in a radial direction between the wall portions; and a wire harness that electrically couples the vehicle seat and the vehicle body. A portion of the wire harness is disposed between the wall portions and does not come into contact with a member other than the wall portions when the vehicle seat is flipped up from the usage position to the storage position.

Abstract: A vehicle seat reclining device includes a ratchet and a guide assembled to be rotatable, a plurality of pawls that are supported by a pair of guide walls provided on the guide, mesh with the ratchet, and are arranged in the relative rotation direction and restrict relative rotation between the ratchet and the guide, and a cam that moves the pawls outward. One of the pawls is a main pawl having a rattle preventing structure. The main pawl includes a bulging portion configured to abut against the pressing portion. Each of the pawls other than the main pawl do not have a bulging portion corresponding to the bulging portion of the main pawl.

Abstract: In one example, a lever assembly includes a slide housing including aligned holes and a slide lever received in the slide housing. The slide lever includes aligned holes, and the slide lever includes a body portion having a length and a recess approximately near a center of the length. The lever assembly includes a pin received in the aligned holes of the slide lever and the slide housing, allowing the slide lever to rotate about the pin relative to the lever housing, wherein the pin is received in the recess.

Abstract: Provided is an air blowing system including: an air blowing section configured to blow air into an environment in which an occupant of a moving object is present; a start-of-blowing setting section configured to set a blowing starting timing at which the air blowing section starts blowing air; a stop-of-blowing setting section configured to set a blowing stopping timing at which the air blowing section stops blowing air; and a control section configured to control air blowing performed by the air blowing section, during a period from the blowing starting timing set by the start-of-blowing setting section to the blowing stopping timing set by the stop-of-blowing setting section, the stop-of-blowing setting section setting the blowing stopping timing in accordance with information given in advance by the occupant about how easily the occupant recovers from motion sickness.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides one example of an easy chair in light of market trends related to health and fitness. The easy chair of the present disclosure includes a seat body configured for a user to sit thereon, and further includes a monitoring part configured to determine whether the user is performing muscle strength training on the seat body and detect the user's performance of the muscle strength training, and a notification part configured to notify the user of a detection result of the monitoring part in a form of recognizable information.

Abstract: A vehicular door trim includes an armrest including a first mount member, a pull handle, an opening section, and a switch base. The pull handle includes a body portion and an extending portion that extends from the body portion and includes a second mount member that is fitted to the first mount member. The opening section is defined by the armrest and the extending portion with the second mount member being fitted to the first mount member. The switch base includes a third mount member that is fitted to the second mount member and disposed in the opening section to cover the opening section with the third mount member being fitted to the second mount member.

Abstract: A seat rotating device includes a base plate, a rotating plate, and a coupling unit. The coupling unit includes a rotation link including a fixing end and a rotating end, a guide rail fixed to the base plate, the guide rail being in a linearly extending shape, a support slider movable along the guide rail, the support slider supporting the rotating end, a connection member that connects the support slider and the rotation link to each other, a lower rail, and an upper slider. The connection member is constructed to accommodate variation in distance between the rotating end and the support slider that is produced when the rotating end and the support slider move with respect to the base plate.

Abstract: A seat rotating device capable of achieving both of suppression of floating of a rotating plate from a seat slider and positioning in a front-rear direction of the rotating plate at a seating position is provided. The seat rotating device includes a seat slider including a lower rail and an upper rail, a base plate, a rotating plate including a belt anchor bracket, a coupling unit, a restriction portion, a fixing member, and a load bearing portion. The restriction portion includes an opposed portion opposed, in the front-rear direction, to a rear end of the belt anchor bracket while the rotating plate is located at the seating position and a tab located above the rear end of the belt anchor bracket while the rotating plate is located at the seating position.

Abstract: A fuel cell stack includes power generation cells stacked in a vertical direction and a discharge passage defining member extending in the vertical direction. Each of the power generation cells includes a gas hole. The gas holes of the power generation cells define a gas manifold which extends in the vertical direction and through which gas flows. Part of an upper wall surface of the gas manifold includes a water collection portion configured to collect water from the upper wall surface. The discharge passage defining member is located below the water collection portion of the gas manifold and defines a discharge passage out of which the water dropping from the water collection portion is discharged.

Abstract: When reversing a direction in which an angle is adjusted by a first adjustment section and reversing a direction in which a posture is adjusted by a second adjustment section, a control section of a seat provides, before a timing at which a driving direction of a second driving section is reversed, a stop period for stopping the second adjustment section from adjusting the posture, and the control section causes the first adjustment section to carry out a preparation operation in advance during the stop period.

Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a seat cushion, a seat back, an armrest provided on a lateral side of the seat back and extending in a front-rear direction of the vehicle seat, a support member supporting the armrest, and a cover member covering the support member from a lateral side of the vehicle seat. The support member includes a side portion and a connecting portion connecting a rear end portion of the side portion and a rear end portion of the armrest, and a pivot shaft attachment portion is formed on a part of the connecting portion. The cover member includes an upper cover portion and a lower cover portion, and the upper cover portion and the lower cover portion are attached to the support member in a state where a substantially smooth surface is exposed.

Abstract: A sound absorbing member mount assembly includes a vehicular interior component and a sound absorbing member. The vehicular interior component includes a protrusion and the protrusion protrudes from a vehicular exterior side surface of the vehicular interior component and includes a support portion having a flat surface. The sound absorbing member is disposed on the vehicular interior component and includes a slit and a positioning portion that is adjacent to the slit. The positioning portion is to be bent and project toward a vehicular exterior side and is supported by the support portion of the protrusion. With the positioning portion being supported by the support portion, the sound absorbing member is positioned with respect to the vehicular interior component.

Abstract: A seatback and/or a seat cushion has left and right side frames arranged spaced apart in a left-right direction, and wire laid between the left and right side frames. The wire extends substantially in parallel to the side frames. A pad is placed on the side frames and the wire. The pad includes a first pad layer on the side of a seating surface, and a second pad layer on a side of the pad opposite to the seating surface. The second pad layer is harder than the first pad layer. The second lad layer is supported while being in contact with the side frames and the wire.

Abstract: To provide a realistic video and audio to a passenger of a moving body, an output control device includes: a position and orientation identifying section which identifies a real position and a real orientation; a reading section which reads virtual space data; a virtual position determining section which determines a virtual position and a real orientation according to the real position and the real orientation; a display control section which controls a display to display, based on the virtual position, the virtual orientation, and a position where the display (4) is provided, an image of a partial region or a part of an object in a virtual space; and an audio output control section which controls, based on the virtual orientation and a positional relationship between the virtual position and an audio source object, a position of a stereo image formed by audio outputted from a speaker.

Abstract: The method for producing a skin material is a method for producing a skin material having a concave part formed on the front surface side, comprising heat-pressing a raw material between an embossing die and an elastic sheet to form the concave part and, at the same time, forming a convex part on a bottom surface of the concave part.

Abstract: A vehicle seat includes: a seat main body; a lock mechanism portion that restricts a rotational operation of the seat main body; an operation portion that is operated to cause the lock mechanism portion to perform an unlock operation; a first member to which an operation force from the operation portion is transmitted; a second member that transmits the operation force toward the lock mechanism portion; and an intermediate member that is disposed, when the seat main body is slid to a specific position, at a first position at which the intermediate member is engaged with the first member and the second member, the intermediate member being disposed, when the seat main body is slid to a position different from the specific position, at a second position at which the intermediate member is disengaged from the first member and the second member.

Abstract: The interior material includes a base material having a plate shape and a skin material covering a front surface of the base material, where the skin material has a woven fabric in which optical fibers are woven as constituent yarns. A bundle structure that collects a plurality of optical fibers exposed from the end portion of the skin material so as to lie along a back surface of the base material is provided at an end portion of the back surface of the base material.