Abstract: A harvester power takeoff (PTO) clutch system includes a detachable PTO extension module and transmission gearbox housing, which has a clutch compartment and a clutch service port through which the clutch compartment can be accessed. A PTO clutch is disposed in the clutch compartment, while a clutch shaft extends from the PTO clutch and projects from the clutch compartment through the clutch service port. The detachable PTO extension module includes, in turn: a PTO housing extension mounted to the transmission gearbox housing; a PTO shaft rotatably coupled to the PTO clutch and projecting from the PTO housing extension in a direction opposite the transmission gearbox housing; an inner extension bearing disposed in the PTO housing extension and rotatably supporting the clutch shaft; and an outer extension bearing further disposed in the PTO housing extension and rotatably supporting the PTO shaft.

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: Provided are an air spring upper support, a vehicle air spring assembly, and a vehicle. The air spring upper support is used for a vehicle air spring. The air spring upper support is configured to be of a split structure having an upper housing and a lower housing, the upper housing and the lower housing are connected to each other and form a receiving space, the air spring upper support further has a bushing, and the bushing is arranged in the receiving space.

Abstract: The present invention provides a seat frame inflator including a seat frame housing portion formed of a seat frame having a hollow structure and forming an outer shell of a pressurized gas chamber, and a partition member disposed on a hollow side of the seat frame and configured to isolate the pressurized gas chamber and a gas chamber outer region from each other. The partition member is provided with a communication hole, and a closing member configured to close the communication hole. The seat frame inflator includes an opening member disposed on the hollow side of the seat frame, and configured to open the pressurized gas chamber, and a gas discharge port formed in the seat frame to face the gas chamber outer region and configured to discharge, from the gas chamber outer region to the outside, the pressurized gas flowing from the pressurized gas chamber.

Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a first webbing provided in a side portion of a seat back, and a second webbing provided in the side portion of the seat back so as to overlap the first webbing from outside. The first webbing and the second webbing form a bag portion that opens downward, which houses a side airbag device. The bag portion includes a webbing seam portion in which edge portions of the first webbing and the second webbing are sewn together. In a skin seam portion in which skins of a seat back skin constituting skin of the seat back are sewn together, the webbing seam portion is sewn together with the skins, in a state in which the first webbing overlaps one of the skins and the second webbing overlaps the other of the skins.

Abstract: An assembly for a vehicle includes a seat having a seatback and a seat bottom. The seat bottom has a front end spaced from the seatback. The assembly includes a front airbag elongated along the front end of the seat bottom. A first side airbag is elongated in a direction from the seatback to the front end. A second side airbag is elongated in a direction from the seatback to the front end. The second side airbag is spaced cross-seat from the first side airbag. The assembly includes a controller. The controller is programmed to inflate the first side airbag and the second side airbag in response to at least detection of a vehicle impact. The controller is programmed to selectively inflate the front airbag in response to at least detection of the vehicle impact and detection of a non-human animal occupant on the seat.

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: A suspension actuator includes a first housing part, a second housing part, a ball screw actuator that is connected to the first housing part and to the second housing part, and an air spring membrane that is connected to the first housing part and to the second housing part. The air spring membrane includes a flexible material and a reinforcing structure that is disposed within the flexible material to resist torsion loads that are applied to the second housing part by the ball screw actuator.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a seat airbag for a vehicle in which a cushion storage space 810 capable of accommodating a front cushion 200 is provided at a front end 720 connected to the front cushion 200 in a side cushion 100, and the front cushion 200 folded in a bellows type is inserted and accommodated into the cushion storage space 810. The side cushion 100 and the front cushion 200 can be deployed sequentially with a time difference, so that the reliability of the cushion deployment can be secured.

Abstract: An assembly includes a seat. The assembly includes an armrest adjacent the seat with the armrest being elongated along an axis. The assembly includes a bar supported by the armrest. The bar is translatable along the axis from a stowed position overlapping the armrest to a deployed position extended from the armrest. The bar is pivotable relative to the armrest in a seat-inboard direction from a non-pivoted position to a pivoted position. The assembly includes an airbag supported the bar. The airbag is inflatable from the bar to an inflated position when the bar is in the deployed position and the pivoted position.

Abstract: A bearing device for mounting an axle guide for commercial vehicles includes a first connector which has an axial direction of extension, and a first axial centre in the axial direction of extension, a damping unit, having an outwardly peripheral retaining surface, and a second connector being fixed to the retaining surface, wherein the second connector extends along the axial direction of extension, wherein the second connector has a boundary surface on which an axle guide can be fixed, wherein the boundary surface has a second axial centre in the axial direction of extension, and wherein the first and the second axial centre are offset from each other along a vector of the axial direction of extension.

Abstract: A method for controlling an air suspension system of a vehicle includes: a) determining a bellows pressure-time characteristic curve for air admission to and release from the bellows of one air spring or the bellows of a plurality of air springs, the characteristic curve being normalized with the value of a supply pressure in a reservoir for compressed air, b) sensor measurement of a current pressure in the spring bellows of the air springs as well as the current supply pressure immediately before air admission thereto or air release therefrom, c) determining, from the normalized characteristic curve, the opening duration for the associated shutoff valve using the ratio of the measured bellows pressure to the measured supply pressure and the ratio of the provided target pressure to the measured supply pressure, d) opening the associated shutoff valve for the determined opening duration in order to set the provided target pressure.

Abstract: An implement coupler for a work vehicle includes a support frame having a drive opening and an array of electric machine mounts arranged about the drive opening. A gearbox is mounted on the support frame and has a gearbox shaft extending through the drive opening. At least one drive pulley is coupled to the gearbox for rotation. At least one endless member is disposed about the drive pulley for rotation therewith. A first electric machine is mounted on the support frame at a first of the electric machine mounts and having a first input pulley coupled to the drive pulley by the at least one endless member.

Abstract: A vehicle seat assembly includes a seat back frame having an edge, a seat back frame shield having an edge, and an airbag. The seat back frame shield is mounted to the seat back frame and protects the airbag from the seat back frame.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a chassis, a plurality of tractive assemblies coupled to the chassis, and a controller. Each tractive assembly includes a tractive element and an actuator coupled to the tractive element and configured to move the tractive element relative to the chassis. The controller is configured to control at least one of the actuators to vary a load supported by one of the tractive assemblies in response to an indication that a portion of a first tractive assembly of the plurality of tractive assemblies is disabled.

Abstract: A utility vehicle includes a plurality of ground-engaging members, a frame assembly, a cab frame assembly, a front suspension assembly, a rear suspension assembly, a power steering assembly, and a powertrain assembly, all of which may be configured to lower the center of gravity of the vehicle.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an airbag includes fixing a first reinforcement panel to a first main panel at a first edge of the first main panel. The method includes fixing a second reinforcement panel to a second main panel at a second edge of the second main panel. The method includes overlaying the first main panel on the second main panel with the first reinforcement panel aligned with the second reinforcement panel and the first edge aligned with the second edge. The method includes fixing the first main panel to the second main panel along the first edge and the second edge. The method includes creating a vent by cutting both the first reinforcement panel and the second reinforcement panel along a cut line to form the vent.

Abstract: A center side airbag configured to reduce spacing between an airbag cushion and a passenger in a front passenger seat to safely restrict transverse movement of the passenger in the front passenger seat. The center side airbag includes an airbag cushion configured to be unfolded between a driver seat and a front passenger seat, and a protruding chamber configured to be unfolded by a front passenger seat-side portion of the airbag cushion protruding toward a passenger in the front passenger seat.

Abstract: An airbag apparatus to be applied to a vehicle includes an airbag, a collision determiner, and an airbag deployment controller. The airbag is configured to be deployed forward of a vehicle body front of the vehicle. The collision determiner is configured to establish a human-body pre-crash determination in a case where a collision probability with a human body is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold. The airbag deployment controller is configured to deploy the airbag in response to the human-body pre-crash determination. The airbag includes a pulling member configured to pull and recess a front surface of the airbag rearward of the vehicle so as to form a slit portion configured to divide a front portion of the airbag.

Abstract: An assembly for a vehicle includes a vehicle pillar. The assembly includes a vehicle door adjacent the vehicle pillar. The assembly includes an airbag supported by the vehicle door. The airbag includes an upper portion inflatable upwardly and a lower portion inflatable downwardly. The assembly includes a pyrotechnic device supported by the vehicle pillar. The assembly includes a cable extending along the vehicle pillar from the pyrotechnic device and coupling the upper portion of the airbag to the pyrotechnic device.