Abstract: A semiconductor device having favorable display quality is provided. The semiconductor device is provided with a display portion, a line-of-sight sensor portion, a control portion, and an arithmetic portion. The line-of-sight sensor portion has a function of obtaining first information showing a direction of a user's line of sight. The arithmetic portion has a function of determining a first region including a gaze point of the user on the display portion with use of the first information and a function of increasing a definition of an image displayed on the first region. Light emitted from the display portion may be used to obtain the first information showing the direction of the line of sight.

Abstract: An air-bag arrangement includes an air-bag module disposed in a recess of an instrument panel, and a lid member for covering an opening of the recess. The lid member is secured to the instrument panel. The lid member is openable in response to inflation of an air bag of the air-bag module to accommodate expansion of the air bag into the passenger space. A first bracket member is secured to the lid member. A second bracket member is secured to the instrument panel and arranged to be brought into engagement with the first bracket member in a manner wherein distortion of either of the first and second bracket members is absent and to allow the first bracket member to be detached from the second bracket member in a snap action manner upon inflation of the air bag.

Abstract: A knee protective panel of a vehicle, extending laterally of the vehicle in front of a driver's seat under an instrument panel and having a U-shaped cut receiving a steering column is provided with a reinforcing member fixed to the protective panel so that there is formed between the protective panel and reinforcing member an enclosed space extending laterally immediately under the U-shaped cut. In one embodiment of the invention, an opening is formed in an outboard half of the reinforcing member lying on the outboard side of the steering column so that the rigidity of the outboard half is made lower than that of the inboard half.

Abstract: A striker is temporarily fixed to a member by inserting its one end into a slit formed in the member. The other end portion is securely fixed to the member by means of a screw which extends through an elongate slot formed in the other end. An adjustment of the striker can be carried out easily by removing an adjustment portion formed integral with the member around the slit or an adjustment portion formed integral with the striker on a wall adapted to be engaged by the edge of the slit defining wall of the member.

Abstract: A meter mounting panel having an opening through which a dial board of a meter is exposed is made of a transparent material and has a light reflecting surface formed thereon. An edge of the panel is located in the vicinity of a light source so that the light from the light source enters the panel through the edge and is reflected on the reflecting surface to be directed in a direction parallel to the surface of the panel thereby to illuminate the same from within.