Abstract: A wearable airbag device adapted to be worn by a wearer is disclosed, including a gas generator that is configured to be actuated at fall of the wearer, an airbag that includes a plurality of inflatable portions that are partitioned from one another, the plurality of inflatable portions each including an gas inlet port and being configured to be inflated with an inflation gas fed from the gas generator via the gas inlet port for protecting a targeted body part of the wearer, and a gas switching mechanism that is disposed in a pathway of the inflation gas from the gas generator toward the plurality of inflatable portions, the gas switching mechanism being configured to switch a destination of the inflation gas emitted from the gas generator over to only one inflatable portion disposed in a falling direction of the wearer out of the plurality of inflatable portions.

Abstract: An occupant protection device includes a seat having a seat portion and a backrest portion, a first restraining member configured to restrain a left shoulder of an occupant, a second restraining member configured to restrain a right shoulder of the occupant, a take-up unit that holds and takes up the first restraining member and the second restraining member, and a lifting unit, wherein the first restraining member and the second restraining member are fed out from a housing portion of the seat owing to being taken up by the take-up unit, and restrain the left and right shoulders, and wherein the lifting unit causes a front edge side of a seat face of the seat portion to rise when the take-up unit takes up the first restraining member and the second restraining member.

Abstract: An occupant protection device includes a seat having a seat portion and a backrest portion, an elongated restraining member for restraining an occupant in the seat, and a take-up unit that takes up the restraining member, wherein the restraining member is fed out from a housing portion of the seat and pulled up toward an upper end side of the backrest portion in accompaniment to an operation of the take-up unit, forming an occupant supporting portion, which supports a back face side of left and right thigh portions of the occupant, and a pulling portion that extends from both left and right ends of the occupant supporting portion to the upper end side of the backrest portion, and restrains the occupant against the backrest portion.

Abstract: A protector for protecting a targeted body part of the wearer is disclosed. The protector includes a mounting belt that is adapted to put on the body of the wearer, and at least one protective body that is adapted to cover the targeted body part when the protector is worn, the protective body extending from the mounting belt. The protective body includes a protective pad that substantially has a board shape, an airbag that is overlaid on an outer surface of the protective pad in a stacking manner and configured to be inflated with an inflation gas, and an outer cover that covers outer circumferences of the protective pad and the airbag as stacked one on another. At least a part of an outer circumferential edge of the airbag is joined to the protective pad so that the airbag will not float away from the protective pad when inflated.

Abstract: Provided are an electroviscous fluid exhibiting a high ER effect and having sufficient durability, and a cylinder device. An electroviscous fluid of the present invention includes a fluid and polyurethane particles containing metal ions. The polyurethane particles have a phase separation structure of a hard segment and a soft segment, and contain an additive increasing a urethane bond forming the hard segment.

Abstract: An airbag apparatus includes two airbags. The airbags are respectively accommodated in side accommodation portions in a seat back. The airbags include two side inflation portions and two front inflation portions. Each airbag further includes a tether. Each airbag includes a non-inflation portion. Each tether includes a pass-through section at which the tether is passed through the non-inflation portion. A portion of each tether between the pass-through section and a distal end is arranged along a rear surface of the front inflation portion. A portion of each tether between the pass-through section and a basal end is arranged along an inner surface of the side inflation portion. The basal end of each tether is configured to be fixed to a rear end of the side inflation portion or the seat back. The distal end of each tether is fixed to a front end of the front inflation portion.

Abstract: A wearable airbag device includes an airbag that is inflatable with an inflation gas, and an outer cover that covers an outer circumference of the airbag and is configured to hold the airbag as inflated. The airbag includes: two protecting portions each of which is configured to cover an outer side of the trochanter of femur of the wearer at airbag deployment; and a communicating path that is configured to provide gas communication between the two protecting portions at vicinities of upper end regions of the protecting portions. The outer cover includes, in the upper edge, a wrap portion that is adapted to be wrapped around the pelvis of the wearer. The outer cover further includes a means for suppressing each of the protecting portions from floating away from the body of the wearer at airbag deployment.

Abstract: An airbag apparatus includes two airbags. The airbags are respectively accommodated in side accommodation portions in a seat back. The airbags include two side inflation portions and two front inflation portions. Each airbag further includes a tether. Each airbag includes a non-inflation portion. Each tether includes a pass-through section at which the tether is passed through the non-inflation portion. A portion of each tether between the pass-through section and a distal end is arranged along a rear surface of the front inflation portion. A portion of each tether between the pass-through section and a basal end is arranged along an inner surface of the side inflation portion. The basal end of each tether is configured to be fixed to a rear end of the side inflation portion or the seat back. The distal end of each tether is fixed to a front end of the front inflation portion.

Abstract: A wearable airbag device for protecting the hip of a wearer includes an airbag that is formed of a sheet material having flexibility and is adapted to be put on a circumference of the pelvis of the wearer. The airbag is inflatable with an inflation gas. The airbag includes: a mounting portion that is adapted to be disposed at a region to be wrapped around the pelvis at airbag deployment; two protecting portions each of which is configured to extend downward from the mounting portion and cover an outer side of a targeted body part of the wearer at airbag deployment, the targeted body part being left and right trochanters of femurs; and a means for suppressing each of the protecting portions from expanding and floating away from the targeted body part at the lower end at deployment of the protecting portion.

Abstract: A wearable airbag device includes a holding body adapted to be worn by a wearer, a gas generator held by the holding body, and an airbag that is held by the holding body and includes an inflatable portion which is inflatable with an inflation gas from the gas generator. The inflatable portion includes a lower inflatable portion for protecting the hip of the wearer, an upper inflatable portion for protecting the head of the wearer, and a communicating portion that is in gas communication with both of the lower inflatable portion and upper inflatable portion. A regulating element is disposed in the communicating portion so as to control a flow of inflation gas so that the upper inflatable portion is inflated after inflation of the lower inflatable portion. The gas generator is configured to deliver the inflation gas more toward the lower inflatable portion than toward the upper inflatable portion.

Abstract: A protector for protecting a targeted body part of the wearer is disclosed. The protector includes a mounting belt that is adapted to put on the body of the wearer, and at least one protective body that is adapted to cover the targeted body part when the protector is worn, the protective body extending from the mounting belt. The protective body includes a protective pad that substantially has a board shape, an airbag that is overlaid on an outer surface of the protective pad in a stacking manner and configured to be inflated with an inflation gas, and an outer cover that covers outer circumferences of the protective pad and the airbag as stacked one on another. At least a part of an outer circumferential edge of the airbag is joined to the protective pad so that the airbag will not float away from the protective pad when inflated.

Abstract: A wearable airbag device adapted to be worn by a wearer is disclosed, including a gas generator that is configured to be actuated at fall of the wearer, an airbag that includes a plurality of inflatable portions that are partitioned from one another, the plurality of inflatable portions each including an gas inlet port and being configured to be inflated with an inflation gas fed from the gas generator via the gas inlet port for protecting a targeted body part of the wearer, and a gas switching mechanism that is disposed in a pathway of the inflation gas from the gas generator toward the plurality of inflatable portions, the gas switching mechanism being configured to switch a destination of the inflation gas emitted from the gas generator over to only one inflatable portion disposed in a falling direction of the wearer out of the plurality of inflatable portions.

Abstract: An airbag device includes a steering wheel a rim portion of which has a longer length in a left and right direction than in a front and back direction, and an airbag mounted on a boss section of the steering wheel. An outer shell of the airbag includes a vehicle-side wall that is configured to be supported by an upper surface of the rim portion when deployed, and a driver-side wall a central region of which is configured to deploy generally vertically for receiving the driver. The airbag as deployed includes, in a rear portion of the vehicle-side wall, a locking inflatable portion that protrudes downward from a vicinity of the upper surface of the rim portion of the steering wheel to be locked by a rear surface of the rim portion and prevent a front portion of the airbag from slipping forward.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes identifying a set of anomalies during a runtime of a first set of replica application containers. The computer-implemented method further includes determining a root cause of the set of anomalies based, at least in part, on comparing uniform resource identifier (URI) requests generated by each replica application container in the set of replica application containers. The computer-implemented method further includes determining a first set of URI requests can be dropped, wherein each URI request in the first set of URI requests includes the root cause of the set of anomalies. The computer-implemented method further includes dropping the first set of URI requests during the runtime of the first set of replica application containers. A corresponding computer system and computer program product are also disclosed.

Abstract: A method for emergency communication includes encoding a message for visual display including a message to field and a message from field. The visual display is revealed to a reading device in communication with a broadcast center, which stores the visual display. The messages are decoded and sorted from visual displays at the broadcast center. On an index channel, a time and channel number for when a message body of the message will be broadcast on a message channel is broadcasted. The message body is broadcasted on the message channel.

Abstract: An airbag device includes a steering wheel a rim portion of which has a longer length in a left and right direction than in a front and back direction, and an airbag mounted on a boss section of the steering wheel. An outer shell of the airbag includes a vehicle-side wall that is configured to be supported by an upper surface of the rim portion when deployed, and a driver-side wall a central region of which is configured to deploy generally vertically for receiving the driver. The airbag as deployed includes, in a rear portion of the vehicle-side wall, a locking inflatable portion that protrudes downward from a vicinity of the upper surface of the rim portion of the steering wheel to be locked by a rear surface of the rim portion and prevent a front portion of the airbag from slipping forward.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes identifying a set of anomalies during a runtime of a first set of replica application containers. The computer-implemented method further includes determining a root cause of the set of anomalies based, at least in part, on comparing uniform resource identifier (URI) requests generated by each replica application container in the set of replica application containers. The computer-implemented method further includes determining a first set of URI requests can be dropped, wherein each URI request in the first set of URI requests includes the root cause of the set of anomalies. The computer-implemented method further includes dropping the first set of URI requests during the runtime of the first set of replica application containers. A corresponding computer system and computer program product are also disclosed.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided for container sharing and scheduling in an environment having a plurality of nodes. The method includes deploying a container management service system that manages a list of layered images. The list specifies one or more container attributes for each layered image stored at the nodes. The method includes selecting, by a processor-based scheduler of the container management system based on the list of layered images, a given one of the nodes which (i) includes image layers residing in a container and (ii) communicates with one or more candidate nodes that include one or more missing image layers. The candidate nodes are determined from among the nodes based on one or more availability criterion. The method includes pulling the one, or more missing image layers horn the candidate nodes and copying the one or more missing image layers to the given one of the nodes.

Abstract: A method for emergency communication includes encoding a message for visual display including a message to field and a message from field. The visual display is revealed to a reading device in communication with a broadcast center, which stores the visual display. The messages are decoded and sorted from visual displays at the broadcast center. On an index channel, a time and channel number for when a message body of the message will be broadcast on a message channel is broadcasted. The message body is broadcasted on the message channel.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided for container sharing and scheduling in an environment having a plurality of nodes. The method includes deploying a container management service system that manages a list of layered images. The list specifies one or more container attributes for each layered image stored at the nodes. The method includes selecting, by a processor-based scheduler of the container management system based on the list of layered images, a given one of the nodes which (i) includes image layers residing in a container and (ii) communicates with one or more candidate nodes that include one or more missing image layers. The candidate nodes are determined from among the nodes based on one or more availability criterion. The method includes pulling the one or more missing image layers from the candidate nodes and copying the one or more missing image layers to the given one of the nodes.