Abstract: A suspension system including four dampers is disclosed where each damper includes a compression chamber and a rebound chamber. First and second hydraulic circuits interconnect the compression and rebound chambers of the front left and back right dampers, while third and fourth hydraulic circuits interconnect the compression and rebound chambers of the front right and back left dampers. A first bi-directional pump is connected between the first and second hydraulic circuits and a second bi-directional pump is connected between the third and fourth hydraulic circuits. The first and second bi-directional pumps can either pump in the same direction or in opposite directions. The level of pitch and roll stiffness can be adjusted by running the first and second bi-directional pumps to change the pressure in select hydraulic circuits of the system.

Abstract: A vehicle body structure capable of modular assembly includes a chassis frame extending from a body frame forming a vehicle body. A corner module is fastened to a side portion of the chassis frame. The corner module includes a knuckle fastened to a wheel, an upper arm positioned between a top end portion of the knuckle and a module bracket mounted on the chassis frame, and an elastic member mounted between the module bracket and a bottom end portion of the knuckle.

Abstract: A vehicle passenger restraint device includes a left seat and a right seat provided in a vehicle cabin so as to be capable of moving in a vehicle front-rear direction, and a far side airbag that is provided to a vehicle width direction inside portion of a seatback of the right seat and that is configured so as to be inflated and deployed to a vehicle width direction inside of a passenger seated in the right seat by being supplied with gas from an inflator. The far side airbag includes a rear deployment section that is configured to deploy toward a vehicle rear side past the seatback of the right seat. The far side airbag is configured so as to overlap with a seatback of the left seat in side view even when the left seat is disposed displaced in a vehicle front-rear direction with respect to the right seat.

Abstract: A joint mounting kit comprises a mounting plate and slugs to enhance adjustability of the vehicle suspension system. A fastener is configured to be received in the mounting hole to at least partially retain the mounting plate to a vehicle component, and a slug is configured to be received in the mounting hole with the fastener. The slug has a slug height that is equal to or less than a height of the mounting hole interior wall. In another implementation, the joint mounting kit comprises a plurality of slugs, with two or more slugs having different wheel adjustment dimensions. In yet another implementation, the slug has a tool removal recess to help facilitate slug removal.

Abstract: An axle beam comprising a beam and first and second kingpin mounting portions. The beam extends along a center plane. The beam may include a top side, a bottom side disposed opposite the top side and one or more flanges. The first and second kingpin mounting portions extend from opposite ends of the beam.

Abstract: A seat belt retractor includes a housing including a pair of side walls facing each other, a winding drum configured to wind up a webbing, a locking base being prevented from being rotated in the pull-out direction, in an emergency of a vehicle, an impact energy absorbing member connecting the winding drum and the locking base so as to be integrally rotatable in a normal state, an impact energy absorbing wire housed in a slot provided in the winding drum so as to form an opening in the first end surface of the winding drum, a ring provided integrally with or separately from the locking base, and a stopper member being configured to define an allowable amount of relative rotation between the winding drum and the locking base in a case where the impact energy absorbing member absorbs the impact energy.

Abstract: An occupant protection device includes a seatbelt having a lap belt portion; an inflator; and an airbag that is provided in the lap belt portion. The airbag includes a main body portion, a conduit portion, and a tether. When inflation is completed the main body portion includes a rear wall portion to which one end portion of the tether is linked, a front wall portion that is disposed in front of the rear wall portion, and to which another end portion of the tether is linked, and an upper wall portion that connects the rear wall portion and the front wall portion above the tether. The main body portion is supported by a supporting body via the tether by the tether catching on and being engaged with the supporting body.

Abstract: A single axle suspension system including right and left dampers, first and second hydraulic circuits, and a first pressurizing mechanism connected in fluid communication with the first and second hydraulic circuits. The first pressurizing mechanism includes a dual chamber ball/screw mechanism to adjust the volumetric capacity of a pair of first and second variable volume chambers that are arranged in fluid communication with the first and second hydraulic circuits. Thus, the first pressurizing mechanism provides roll control by generating a pressure differential between the first and second hydraulic circuits, which causes an increase in the fluid pressure inside either the first working chamber of the right damper and the second working chamber of the left damper or inside the first working chamber of the left damper and the second working chambers of the right damper to provide roll stiffness that counters vehicle roll during cornering.

Abstract: A support structure for a vehicle includes: a body portion (22); a damper attachment portion (24); a tie-rod attachment portion (26); and a lower arm attachment portion (28). The vehicle supporting structure (20) has a first rib (32) that connects the damper attachment portion (24) with the tie-rod attachment portion (26), a second rib (34) that connects the tie-rod attachment portion (26) and the lower arm attachment portion (28), and a third rib (36) that connects the first rib with the second rib. The first rib is inclined to have a height that gradually decreases from the damper attachment portion toward the tie-rod attachment portion, forming a first inclined portion (32a) and a first thinned portion (32b). The third rib is inclined to have a height that gradually decreases from the second rib toward the first rib, forming a second inclined portion (36a) and a second thinned portion (36b).

Abstract: An occupant protection device for a vehicle includes a first bag that deploys in front of a vehicle's occupant, a second bag that deploys adjacent to the first bag, and a deployment controller that selects, according to a collision mode, a first deployment mode in which the first bag deploys and the second bag does not deploy and a second deployment mode in which both bags deploy. The first bag includes a first air chamber, a second air chamber that extends from the first air chamber toward the second bag, and a communication flow path that supplies deployment gas from the first air chamber to the second air chamber. The communication flow path includes a supply restriction unit that restricts supply of the deployment gas from the first air chamber to the second air chamber in response to interference between the second air chamber and the second bag.

Abstract: With reference to the Figures, wherein like numerals indicate like parts throughout the several views, a vehicle includes a vehicle seat that includes a seatback and a seat bottom that defines an occupant seating area. The seatback includes an inboard bolster and an outboard bolster spaced from the inboard bolster in a cross-seat direction with the occupant seating area between the inboard bolster and the outboard bolster. A arm is rotatably supported by the inboard bolster. The vehicle includes a computer that includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to detect an occupant in the occupant seating area and based on the detection of an occupant in the occupant seating area, rotate the arm toward the occupant seating area in response to detection of certain vehicle impacts.

Abstract: A panel member is provided in front of a seat in a vehicle cabin of a vehicle at a height such that knees of an occupant who moves forward from the seat come into contact with the panel member. The panel member includes a cover member and a reinforcement member. The cover member defines a surface of the panel member. The reinforcement member is provided behind the cover member. The reinforcement member includes an upper part in an up-down direction of the vehicle and a lower part other than the upper part. The upper part is provided with a grid-shaped rib unit extending over an overall width of the reinforcement member in a vehicle width direction of the vehicle. The lower part is provided with a grid-shaped rib unit in a region excluding a central part of the reinforcement member in the vehicle width direction.

Abstract: A panel member is provided in front of a seat of a vehicle at a height such that knees of an occupant who moves forward from the seat come into contact with therewith. The panel member includes a cover member defining a surface thereof and a reinforcement member attached to a back side of the cover member over an entire region thereof. The reinforcement member includes an outer part, a central part, and an inner part in a vehicle width direction. The outer part is provided with a first grid-shaped rib unit. The inner part is provided with a second grid-shaped rib unit that expands in the vehicle width direction more easily than the first grid-shaped rib unit. The central part is provided with no rib unit, and is provided with a coupling member coupling the first and second rib units.

Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to a system (100) for a vehicle (1), the system comprising: fluid bump stop mounting brackets (200) each configured to receive a fluid bump stop (400); a rear subframe (300) for a multilink rear suspension arrangement of a vehicle (1) having a unibody chassis (10); and lower arms (308) of the multilink rear suspension arrangement of the vehicle; wherein the rear subframe extends laterally (y) and comprises an upper spring seat (302) at each lateral side of the rear subframe, wherein each upper spring seat is configured to receive an upper end of a spring (500), wherein the rear subframe comprises a central mounting space (304) for a drivetrain component (600), wherein the rear subframe further comprises one or more lower arm mounting points (306) at each lateral side of the rear subframe, for the lower arms, wherein each lower arm comprises a lower spring seat (322) configured to receive a lower end of the spring, wherein either the lower spring seats or the upper sprin

Abstract: A seatbelt system for an occupant of a vehicle comprises: an anchor point attached to a body of the vehicle; seatbelt webbing extending from the anchor point toward the occupant; and a dynamic guide for the seatbelt webbing positioned between the anchor point and a shoulder of the occupant, the dynamic guide comprising a lid attached to a base, the seatbelt webbing extending through the dynamic guide and exiting through an opening between the lid and the base, the dynamic guide configured so that the lid at least partially separates from the base at a first predetermined tension in the seatbelt webbing laterally in the vehicle.

Abstract: According to the present exemplary embodiments, a rack housing having a body, a rack bar and a cover is disclosed and configured to mitigate a sense of being stuck during steering, reducing component wear and damage due to load concentration, and prevent deterioration of case of assembly by supporting the reverse input load that causes the rack bar to bend.

Abstract: A locking cam for securing suspension components in a vehicle. The locking cam has at least one surface that is textured to create a surface for engagement against and with a frame member upon tightening of the suspension components. The textured surface can have ridges or projects for engagement with the frame member.

Abstract: An airbag device has an airbag. The airbag has a front-rear chamber and an airbag main body. The front-rear chamber has a left and right pair of front-rear extending portions that pass by respective left and right sides of a head of a passenger seated in a vehicle seat and inflate and deploy toward the seat front side, and a connecting portion connecting front end portions of the pair of front-rear extending portions in a seat left-right direction. The airbag main body inflates and deploys toward a side of the passenger at a seat rear side of the connecting portion, later than the front-rear chamber. At a time when the passenger is restrained, the airbag main body is compressed in a seat front-rear direction while stretching the front-rear chamber in the seat front-rear direction.

Abstract: A curtain airbag assembly is provided which includes a curtain airbag module in which a curtain airbag cushion is fixedly folded and a twist prevention tether disposed parallel to the curtain airbag module in a longitudinal direction of the curtain airbag module. Fixing holes may be formed in front and rear ends of the curtain airbag cushion, and the twist prevention tether may be fixedly fitted into the fixing holes. The twist prevention tether is configured to be twisted when a twist occurs in the curtain airbag module to thereby to provide tension in a direction opposite to a twist direction to counteract and prevent the twist.

Abstract: To reduce an amount of rear protrusion of a vehicle seat equipped with an airbag module configured to deploy rearward, in a vehicle seat provided with a seat cushion and a seat back, the seat back includes a seat back frame including a pair of left and right side frames extending in a vertical direction and an upper frame connecting upper ends of the side frames to each other; an airbag module supported by an upper half of the seat back frame via a bracket; and a skin member covering the seat back frame, the bracket, and the airbag module from a rear side thereof, wherein a part of the skin member corresponding to the airbag module is provided with a frangible portion configured to open upon inflation of an airbag.