Abstract: The present interior component includes a plate-shaped base material to be fastened to the base member and a skin material for covering the front surface of the base material. The skin material has a woven fabric in which an optical fiber is woven as a constituent yarn, the skin material is provided with a folded portion turned back to the back surface of the base material while being folded into a plurality of sheets, and a clip body for clipping the folded portion is provided on the back surface of the base material.

Abstract: A cushion frame comprises first and second side frames and a coupling member coupling rear end portions of the first and second side frames. Each of the first and second side frames has a fixation portion at a corresponding rear end portion. The first side frame comprises first and second bead portions in the rear end portion thereof. In the first side frame, a hypothetical ridge line of the first bead portion substantially coincides with an imaginary line extending from the coupling member to the fixation portion. An angle between the hypothetical ridge line of the first bead portion and a hypothetical ridge line of the second bead portion is equal to or less than a preset angle.

Abstract: A seat reclining device includes a ratchet and a guide assembled to be rotatable relative to each other, a pawl capable of restricting relative rotation between the ratchet and the guide, and a rotation cam that pushes and moves the pawl. The pawl has an eccentric structure in which the pawl is pressed and inclined to one side in the rotation direction due to a pressing force received from the rotation cam, and has a first protrusion that restricts the inclination of the pawl by contact with a guide wall that the first protrusion faces.

Abstract: A fuel cell stack includes stacked single cells. Each single cell includes a power generating unit, a first separator, and a second separator. The first separator includes a facing surface that faces the power generating unit. The facing surface includes first groove passages. The first groove passages include first main passages and first auxiliary passages. The second separator includes a facing surface that faces the power generating unit. The facing surface includes second groove passages. The second groove passages include second main passages and second auxiliary passages. Extending portions of at least one of a set of the first auxiliary passages or a set of the second auxiliary passages include a wavy section. The wavy section intersects with one of the extending portions of the other one of the set of the first auxiliary passages and the set of the second auxiliary passages with the power generating unit in between.

Abstract: A room for an aircraft cabin is a hollow box shaped room and installed in the aircraft cabin. The room includes a floor wall portion that is configured to face a seat of the cabin, a side wall portion that extends from the floor wall portion in a direction away from the seat and has an opening portion for entering and leaving the room, a ladder portion extending in a direction toward the seat from a periphery of the opening portion, and a ceiling wall portion that extends to couple the floor wall portion and the side wall portion and has an engagement structure with an inner wall of the cabin.

Abstract: A single cell for a fuel cell includes a power generating unit and two separators that hold the power generating unit in between. Each separator includes a facing surface, which faces the power generating unit. Each facing surface includes groove passages and ribs. Each of the ribs includes a top wall portion, two side wall portions, and corner portions. The top wall portion is in contact with the power generating unit. The side wall portions are located at the opposite sides of the top wall portion. Each corner portion is located between the top wall portion and one of the side wall portions. A restricting portion is provided at a section of each corner portion that faces the groove passage. The restricting portion restricts the gas diffusion layer from sinking into the groove passage. The restricting portion is a conductive porous body.

Abstract: An armrest serves as an elbow rest of a seat device in a case where the armrest is tilted forward and serves as a backrest of the seat device in a case where the armrest is raised rearward. The armrest includes an armrest pad configured to elastically support a load applied to a backrest surface forming a part of a front surface of the seat device in a case where the armrest serves as the backrest, an armrest cover configured to cover the armrest pad, a protrusion that protrudes from the backrest surface of the armrest cover and abuts against an upper surface of a seat cushion of the seat device in a case where the armrest is tilted forward, and a cutout portion formed in a region that overlaps the protrusion of the armrest cover in a thickness direction of the armrest.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicle seat having a variable cushion length. The vehicle seat includes: a front panel of metal arranged on a front-end side of a seat cushion to form a frame of the seat cushion; a sliding device allowing a movable portion to be displaceable and including a sliding member of resin displaceable relative to the front panel in seat front-rear directions; and a bracket of metal that is coupled to the front panel in a manner displaceable relative to the front panel in the seat front-rear directions and that is displaced integrally with the sliding member, the bracket transmitting a load acting on the movable portion to the front panel.

Abstract: A vehicle cargo compartment structure includes a first side trim and a second side trim that include a first projecting portion and a second projecting portion receiving a cargo floor board thereon. The first side trim further includes a first upper support portion above the first projecting portion and a first lower support portion under the first projecting portion. The first upper support portion supports a first end of a cargo cover assembly in a first state and includes a first upper opposite surface that is opposite the first end in the first state. The first lower support portion supports the first end in a second state and includes a first lower opposite surface that is opposite the first end in the second state. The first lower opposite surface is more to a vehicular exterior side in the vehicular width direction compared to the first upper opposite surface.

Abstract: A gear device includes a housing, a cover, and a gear. The cover covers an opening of the housing. The gear is accommodated in the housing. One of the housing and the cover includes a projection projected toward the gear and having a center axis that extends along a rotation axis of the gear. The gear includes a recess that receives the projection.

Abstract: A fuel cell stack includes single cells stacked in a first direction. Each single cell includes a power generating unit, a first separator, and a second separator. The first separator and the second separator hold the power generating unit between the first separator and the second separator. The first separator of each single cell includes first protrusions that protrude toward the second separator of another single cell that is adjacent in the first direction. The first protrusions are in contact with the second separator. Each of the first protrusions includes a top wall portion and two side wall portions. At least one of the two side wall portions includes a step portion having a shape of a step in the first direction.

Abstract: A vehicular interior component includes a base and a skin. The base includes a body portion, and a structural portion that includes one of a projection portion that projects toward a vehicular interior side than the body portion and a recessed portion that is recessed toward a vehicular exterior side than the body portion. The skin is disposed on a vehicular interior side of the base to cover at least the structural portion. The skin is a woven fabric that includes first threads extending in a first direction and second threads extending in a second direction that crosses the first direction and the first threads reflect light.

Abstract: An air intake duct includes a peripheral wall, which is formed by a compressed fiber portion made of a compression molded fiber material. The compressed fiber portion includes high-compression portions having a high compression ratio and low-compression portions having a relatively low compression ratio. The high-compression portions include circumferentially extending sections. Each circumferentially extending section is located in a plane that is perpendicular to an extension direction of the peripheral wall with part of the circumferentially extending section disposed between the low-compression portions. Each circumferentially extending section extends continuously over the entire circumference of the peripheral wall.

Abstract: A chain cover includes a first member, which is made of a hard plastic, and a second member, which is made of a material different from the hard plastic. The first member is formed by insert molding with the second member as an insert. A first joint surface is formed in a peripheral portion around an insertion hole. The first joint surface is joined to the first member. The first joint surface includes a first joint portion, which includes a lattice-shaped recess portion, and a second joint portion, which includes grooves. The grooves extend in a direction in which the peripheral portion extends, while being arranged in an intersecting direction, which intersects with the extending direction. The second joint portion is provided to be closer to a space adjacent to the peripheral portion than the first joint portion.

Abstract: The present disclosure accurately identifies a posture of a user whose body is supported by a supporting apparatus. A posture identifying device includes: a model preparing section configured to prepare a three-dimensional model from body data; a body part position information obtaining section configured to obtain body part position information from a camera; a shape information obtaining section configured to obtain shape information from a shape sensor; a model correcting section configured to correct a posture in the three-dimensional model according to (i) a position of a specific part indicated by the body part position information and (ii) a shape of a seat indicated by the shape information; and a posture identifying section configured to identify a posture of a user from the posture in the three-dimensional model thus corrected.

Abstract: A fuel cell stack includes single cells stacked in a first direction. Each single cell includes a power generating unit, a first separator, and a second separator. The first separator and the second separator hold the power generating unit between the first separator and the second separator. The first separator of each single cell includes first protrusions. The second separator of each single cell includes second protrusions. A distal end of each second protrusion includes a depression that is located at a center in a second direction and extends in a third direction. A length of the depression in the second direction is greater than a length of the first protrusion in the second direction. A distal end of each first protrusion is located inside the depression.

Abstract: A vehicular interior component to be mounted on a body panel includes a core layer having a vehicular exterior side surface and a cover layer covering the vehicular exterior side surface of the core layer and having a cover layer vehicular exterior surface. The cover layer includes a first section and a second section. The first section has a first vehicular exterior side surface that is flat and is a portion of the cover layer vehicular exterior surface and the second section has a second vehicular exterior side surface that is an uneven surface and is another portion of the cover layer vehicular exterior side surface. The second section includes projection portions that are to be contacted with the body panel or a vehicular component.

Abstract: The fiber-reinforced resin material of the present invention is a fiber-reinforced resin material having a laminated structure in which fiber assembly layers and thermoplastic resin layers are alternately located, wherein the fiber assembly layers are each an assembly of continuous fibers having thermoplastic resin particles attached to surfaces thereof, and the fiber-reinforced resin material has a higher elongation on one surface side than that on the other surface side. The fiber-reinforced resin structure is made of the present fiber-reinforced resin material. A method for manufacturing the present fiber-reinforced resin material includes: a stacking step of stacking a sheet-shaped product of the continuous fibers that serves as the fiber assembly layer and a resin sheet that serves as the thermoplastic resin layer so as to obtain the laminated structure; and a hot-pressing step of heating and compressing a stacked product obtained through the stacking step in a stacking direction.

Abstract: An EGR device includes an inlet portion into which EGR gas is introduced, a first outlet portion, a second outlet portion, and a passage portion. The first outlet portion and the second outlet portion each conduct, to the corresponding branch passage portion, the EGR gas that has been introduced through the inlet portion. The passage portion allows gas to flow between the inlet portion and the first outlet portion and between the inlet portion and the second outlet portion. The passage portion includes: a main passage that connects the inlet portion to the first outlet portion and to the second outlet portion; and an expansion chamber that is expanded outward from the main passage. The main passage includes a connecting portion. The connecting portion is connected to the second outlet portion and extends in a first direction. The expansion chamber is expanded outward from the connecting portion.

Abstract: A transport device includes a moving mechanism and a plate. The moving mechanism includes a pinion, a conversion mechanism, which converts vertical motion of an upper die assembly into rotational motion of the pinion, and a rack, which is moved as the pinion rotates. The moving mechanism is configured to move, when the rack moves from the top dead center position to a bottom dead center position, the plate to a position that is away from a die apparatus in a conveying direction and is below a conveying surface. The pinion includes a toothless portion that does not mesh with the rack when the rack moves between the bottom dead center position and a middle position that is between the top dead center position and the bottom dead center position.