Abstract: A vehicle front passenger seat airbag device comprises an airbag body is inflated and deployed by gas ejected from an inflator, a flow regulating cloth that is provided in a tubular shape including opening portions opening at left and right sides into an interior of the airbag body, that includes an inlet port at a peripheral surface of the flow regulating cloth for introducing the gas ejected from the inflator, and that is configured to distribute the gas introduced from the inlet port through the opening portions toward left and right sides of the interior of the airbag body, and a sewn portion configured by at least one portion of the flow regulating cloth of a portion further toward an upper portion side or a portion further toward a lower portion side than the inlet port, being sewn to the airbag body along a left-right direction.

Abstract: An airbag cover of a vehicle includes a support having at least one predeterminable breaking line that is breakable by an airbag, a transparent upper layer on the support, and at least one film positioned between the support and the transparent upper layer.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a vehicle body defining a moonroof opening and a moonroof. The moonroof is moveably supported by the body and is moveable relative to the moonroof opening between an open position and a closed position. An airbag is mounted to the vehicle body. An inflator is in fluid communication with the airbag. A pyrotechnic device is operatively connected to the airbag to pull the airbag across the moonroof opening.

Abstract: A support surface includes a support back, a housing defined within the support back, a restraint having a stowed position disposed within the housing, and a panel or a rail having a stowed position disposed within the housing. The support surface includes an anchor that couples an outer edge of the restraint to an outer edge of the panel or the rail. The panel or the rail is configured to guide the anchor and the restraint in traveling from the stowed positions to a deployed position spaced apart from the housing and the support back.

Abstract: A steering column assembly for a motor vehicle has a bearing housing and a steering shaft which is mounted in the bearing housing, and an adjusting apparatus, by which the steering shaft can be adjusted. The adjusting apparatus has a drive with a drive element, a motor with a drive shaft, and a first flexible guide element which runs in a tensioned manner in a first tensioning direction between two first tensioning points. Here, furthermore, the drive element is wrapped around at least once without play by the first guide element and is coupled to it in a torque-transmitting manner such that the drive moves along the first guide element in or counter to the first tensioning direction when the drive shaft rotates in or counter to a rotational direction. Furthermore, a motor vehicle with a steering column assembly of this type is provided.

Abstract: A vehicle front passenger seat airbag device comprises an airbag body, a flow regulating bag, and a tether. The airbag body is housed in a vehicle rear side end portion at a front passenger seat side of an instrument panel, and is configured to be inflated and deployed toward a vehicle rear side by gas ejected from an inflator. The flow regulating bag is provided inside the airbag body and is configured to distribute the gas ejected from the inflator toward left and right sides of an interior of the airbag body. The tether is provided inside the flow regulating bag and limits an amount of projection toward the vehicle rear side at a left-right direction central portion of the flow regulating bag.

Abstract: A steering column for a motor vehicle may include an inner casing in which a steering spindle is mounted rotatably about a longitudinal axis that extends in a longitudinal direction and is received in an outer casing in a slidingly adjustable manner in the longitudinal direction. A pretensioning apparatus may have a pressure piece that can be braced from an outside in a tensioning direction transversely to the longitudinal axis against the inner casing. The pressure piece is held in the longitudinal direction on the outer casing and is supported against a fixing element counter to the tensioning direction. The fixing element is fixed in a recess of the outer casing. The fixing element has a forming means that is plastically furrowed into the recess, and/or the recess has a forming means that is plastically furrowed into the fixing element.

Abstract: Disclosed is a passenger air bag (PAB) device that includes a crash pad and a PAB chute. The crash pad includes a cutting groove recessed at a predetermined depth in an inner side surface of the crash pad. The PAB chute includes an air bag door welded to the inner side surface in a shape covering the cutting groove. The air bag door includes a protruding portion protruding from a surface of the airbag door, disposed, in a state in which the air bag door is welded to the inner side surface, inside a space forming the cutting groove.

Abstract: The present invention is a side airbag device stowed in a seatback of a vehicle seat, comprising: an inflator arranged on the occupant side of a side frame which is positioned on a side part inside the seatback, that generates expansion gas, and an airbag which expands due to said expansion gas and protects the occupant seated in the vehicle seat. The airbag includes a main chamber that deploys toward the front of the seatback, and a pre-chamber that houses the inflator inside and is connected to the occupant side of the main chamber. Furthermore, an integral joint without gaps is formed by sewing between at least the front edge part of the pre-chamber and the main chamber.

Abstract: Airbag cushion chutes and related assemblies comprising airbag cushion chutes for controlling airbag cushion deployment and/or protecting screens or other equipment in a vehicle. In some embodiments, an airbag cushion assembly may comprise a housing and an airbag cushion chute positioned within the housing. An inflatable cushion may be positioned within the airbag cushion chute, which airbag cushion chute may be configured to, upon deployment of the inflatable cushion, extend out of the housing to restrict expansion of the inflatable cushion in a lateral direction, which may allow for protecting, for example, a disassociated screen of a vehicle.

Abstract: The suspension apparatus may include a driving unit configured to provide driving power to a wheel, a first knuckle coupled with the driving unit, rotated around a steering axis, and configured to change a steering angle of the wheel, a second knuckle disposed to face the first knuckle and configured to rotatably support the first knuckle, a suspension arm configured to extend from a vehicle body and to support the second knuckle against the vehicle body, a shock absorber connected to the second knuckle and configured to absorb a shock that is applied to the second knuckle, and a rotation restriction member provided between the second knuckle and the shock absorber and configured to restrict the second knuckle from being rotated along with the first knuckle.

Abstract: An assembly includes a seat having a seat bottom and a seatback supported by the seat bottom. The seat bottom, defining an occupant-seating area, has a seat-forward end and a seat-rearward end. An airbag is inflatable from an uninflated position to an inflated position and is supported on the seat bottom at the seat-forward end. The airbag has a cavity configured to receive a removable child-restraint system on the occupant-seating area. A pyrotechnic retractor is supported by the seat and operatively coupled to the airbag to position the cavity at the occupant-seating area. The assembly includes a computer including a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to detect a removable child-restraint system on the occupant-seating area and, based on detection of a removable child-restraint system, inflate the airbag to the inflated position in response to certain vehicle impacts.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a dash and an occupant-seating area. A console is moveable relative to the dash between a stowed position and a deployed position. The console is disposed in the dash in the stowed position. The console is movable away from the dash along the seat from the stowed position to the deployed position. A table is supported by the console. The table extends over the occupant-seating area when the console is in the deployed position.

Abstract: A steering column may include a casing tube in which a steering spindle is rotatably mounted, a guide unit that receives the casing unit so as to be telescopically adjustable in a direction of a longitudinal axis, and an electromotor adjustment drive that is arranged between the casing tube and the guide unit. An inner bearing face of the guide unit surrounds an outer casing surface of the casing tube and includes a slot extending longitudinally with a slot width between mutually opposing slot edges. A preload device engages the slot edges and is configured to apply a tightening force to reduce the slot width to preload the bearing face together with the casing surface. A clamping body cooperates with the slot edges via a deflection device that converts a reduction of slot width into a radial clamping movement of the clamping body for radial preloading the outer casing surface.

Abstract: A steering column device includes: a link mechanism pivotably supported with respect to a fixing bracket about a first pivot shaft, which is perpendicular to a center axis PC of a steering shaft and is positioned further toward an upper side of a vehicle than the center axis PC, and pivotably supported with respect to a column jacket about a second pivot shaft, which is positioned further toward the upper side of the vehicle than the center axis PC; and a drive mechanism connected to the link mechanism to drive the link mechanism, thereby adjusting a tilt angle of the steering shaft. A sliding member includes a shaft member engaged in an elongated hole which is provided in a portion of the link mechanism which is near the second pivot shaft, and the shaft member is pivotably supported in the elongated hole and fixed to the column jacket.

Abstract: An airbag that prevents heavy interference with the head of an occupant during expansion and deployment even when the occupant is not seated in a vehicle seat in a regular position is configured to be positioned to the sides of the center in the left-right direction of a vehicle seat and has a pair of chambers physically coupled by a coupling section that deploy forward of the occupant when expansion and deployment are complete. The pair of chambers are independent during expansion and deployment and expand and deploy frontward from both the left and right sides of the vehicle seat, having side protecting chambers that cover at least the side sections of the occupant. The side protecting chambers are coupled by coupling sections positioned to the sides of the center in the left-right direction of the vehicle seat, and the coupling section is thinner than the side protecting chambers at least during initial expansion and deployment.

Abstract: A vehicle airbag device and a method for manufacturing the same, in which stud bolts for securing the device to the vehicle body can be inserted avoiding the sewn sections, and in which unbalanced stresses are not generated in the panel parts during expansion and deployment. The device having a pair of panel parts, a pair of expansion parts integrally provided on the pair of panel parts, the expansion part of the first panel part overlapping the second panel part, and the expansion part of the second panel part overlapping the first panel part, forming an overlapping section by joining each expansion part to each panel part at a sewn section, and joining the overlapping section with a pair of panel part outer edges, the outer sewn section forming a hollow bag body, and providing inflator insertion holes and bolt insertion holes provided through the overlapping section.

Abstract: An axially adjustable steering column assembly includes an upper jacket. The steering column assembly also includes a lower jacket, wherein the upper jacket is received within the lower jacket and is telescopingly adjustable therein, the lower jacket defining a pair of slots extending in an axial direction of the lower jacket. The steering column assembly further includes a column mounting bracket, wherein the lower jacket translates and rotates relative to the column mounting bracket. The steering column assembly yet further includes a pair of bushings positioned within the pair of slots. The steering column assembly also includes a geared rack operatively coupled to one of the pair of bushings, the geared rack correspondingly rotatable with the lower jacket. The steering column assembly further includes a sensor in operative contact with the geared rack to detect the axial position of the axially adjustable steering column assembly.

Abstract: A saddle-ride type vehicle includes a retainer that is provided behind a head pipe; an inflator; and an airbag that is housed in the retainer, inflates by gas discharged by the inflator, and is deployed in front of an occupant. The retainer is disposed below a handlebar. The airbag is formed in a bag shape by a joining structure of a front surface and a rear surface, and a panel that forms a circumferential length difference between the front surface and the rear surface in a side view is provided at a coupling portion between the front surface and the rear surface.

Abstract: A driver seat airbag device includes an airbag cushion installed at a center portion 108 of a steering wheel of a vehicle which is configured to expand and deploy toward an occupant in a driver seat; and an inflator that supplies gas to the airbag cushion. The airbag cushion includes a steering side panel provided on the steering wheel side and an occupant side panel joined to the occupant side of the steering side panel. The shape of the expanded and deployed airbag cushion is such that the portion, which is the largest area of the cross section orthogonal to the axis of rotation of the steering wheel, is formed further toward the front side of the vehicle than the center portion between the frontmost portion of the steering side panel and the rearmost portion of the occupant side panel.