Abstract: A knee protector for use in automotive vehicles has a knee protector body located beneath an instrument panel and extending in the lateral direction of the vehicle opposite the knees of a passenger. Support members are connected between the knee protector body and a rigid portion of the vehicle body. Each support member includes a folding portion which folds upon collision impact. Each support member also includes a cushion member bridging the folding portion of the support member. The cushion member is formed of a material which can absorb collision energy. The folding portion absorbs collision impact by stable deformation.

Abstract: A core of an instrument pad is connected to a glove box reinforcement by way of a stay. The glove box reinforcement is in turn secured to a vehicle body by way of an instrument stay and a side bracket, etc.

Abstract: According to the present invention, an instrument panel and a stay are assembled with a device which slidably holds the stay relative to the instrument panel, the device preferably including a hook formed on the stay and a temporary latch formed on the instrument panel.

Abstract: An instrument panel construction includes an instrument panel main body and a padding having a pad with a skin thereon. The main body and the padding are formed with openings mating with each other for receiving a finisher, such as a side defroster grille. The padding has a reduced thickness portion around the opening thereof. The reduced thickness portion is slotted to expose the instrument panel main body. The finisher includes latch devices which engage with edge defining the opening of the instrument panel main body. A plurality of abutment ribs extend between said instrument panel main body via the slotted portions and said finisher.

Abstract: A belt guide comprises a root portion secured on a base plate and an arm portion extending from the root portion to form a guide space between the arm portion and the base plate for receiving a safety belt. The arm portion has at its free end an inturned tongue turning toward the root portion. The inturned tongue is maintained in contact with the base plate. The belt guide permits entrance of the safety belt into the guide space under a force to cause the inturned tongue to lift off the base plate but prevents the safety belt from lifting the inturned tongue off the base plate to escape from the guide space.

Abstract: A seat belt arrangement for an automotive vehicle having a seat structure, a roof side rail and a center pillar, comprising a guide rail extending along the roof side rail, a slide member slidably received in a downwardly open longitudinal groove in the guide rail and protruding downwardly from the groove, a retaining strap anchored at one end to the slide member and extending in part in front of the seat structure, a retractor unit adapted to pull the strap to wind it into roll form, and a strap guide member having an upper bracket portion secured to the roof side rail and a lower portion extending downwardly from the bracket portion along the center pillar. The slide member is movable forwardly and rearwardly through the groove in the guide rail, and the arm portion of the slide member extends through a gap formed between the center pillar and the guide member.

Abstract: A door for an automobile disclosed herein comprises a glass run rubber embraced in a door frame for guiding a window glass, the glass run rubber formed with a channel for receiving a wire harness extending from a buckle for releasing a seat belt in an emergency to a belt wearing alarm device for warning with a signal a driver of a disconnection of the seat belt to the buckle, thereby eliminating a notch formed in the door frame which would reduce the rigidity of the door, preventing the wire harness from being cut by an edge of a notch formed in the door frame and eliminating extra parts for retaining the wire harness in the channel.

Abstract: A protector for preventing legs and feet of a person in a vehicle when it collided consists of a panel in the form of a curved body extending toward a seat for the person and is provided with a pad adhered to a surface facing said seat. The protector disclosed herein includes the panel comprising at least one closed channel including a space therein filled with an energy absorption member, thereby greatly increasing plastic deformation load and yield load of the panel to prevent the legs and feet from being hurt.

Abstract: A passive seat belt equipment for a motor car comprises a lap belt stretched between one end coupled with a retractor mounted inside of a rear bottom portion of a door and the other end fixed on a rear top portion of the door through a ring engaged with a buckle fitted on a central portion of a floor, and an auxiliary belt stretched between one end connected with another ring though which the lap belt is stretched and the other end coupled with the retractor through a slit formed on the top portion of the door. As a result thereof, the lap belt which is loosened as the door is opened is lifted up automatically by the ring engaged with the auxiliary belt which is wound up as the door is opened, so as to facilitate getting in and out of the car.