Abstract: Provided is a structure for a front part of a vehicle, including a vehicle main body, a pair of suspension support portions, and a cowl member connected to the pair of suspension support portions. The cowl member has: an inner part connection portion which has a shape extending continuously in a vehicle width direction between the pair of suspension support portions and which interconnects respective inner parts of the pair of suspension support portions in the vehicle width direction; and a water drain portion which is provided backward of the inner part connection portion in a front-rear direction of the vehicle and drains water toward a side part of the vehicle in the vehicle width direction. The inner part connection portion has a thickness larger than a thickness of the water drain portion.

Abstract: Provided is a bag body which has a flatter shape in its expanded state. This bag body has control yarn therein, which controls expansion. The control yarn includes: a first seam which extends from a non-expansion section to another non-expansion section within the bag body; a second seam which is a seam forming the fabric on one surface of the expansion section of the bag body, and is formed by being separated from the fabric on said one surface, threaded through the first seam, and turned back to the fabric on said one surface; and a third seam which is a seam forming the fabric on the other surface of the expansion section of the bag body, and is formed by being separated from the fabric on the other surface, threaded through the first seam, and turned back to the fabric on the other surface.

Abstract: A double-lock vehicle hood that can secure flare rigidity, dent resistance, and pedestrian protection performance in a region near the center between a pair of strikers while suppressing an increase in manufacturing cost and weight. The vehicle hood includes an outer panel, an inner panel disposed below the outer panel, and a left striker and a right striker provided on the inner panel and disposed separately in a vehicle lateral direction. The inner panel includes an inner joining part projecting from a bottom toward the outer panel inside an outer joining part. The inner joining part includes a body part disposed behind the left and right strikers and joined to the outer panel, and an extension part extended forward from the body part to be disposed between the left and right strikers and joined to the outer panel.

Abstract: A door beam including an aluminum alloy extruded material of a closed section structure having a welded part along the longitudinal direction, webs and an outer flange are inhibited from buckling and further the welded part in the outer flange is inhibited from breaking at the time of collision. In a cross section of an aluminum alloy extruded material perpendicular to the extrusion direction, each of the webs includes an outer part connected to the outer flange and an inner part connected to an inner flange and the thickness of the outer part is larger than the thickness of the inner part. Each of the outer parts is positioned in a region outside a cross section center of the aluminum alloy extruded material in the vehicle body width direction.

Abstract: A door beam includes an aluminum alloy extrusion body extended in a longitudinal direction and having a pair of webs and a pair of flanges to be positioned on an inner side and an outer side in a width direction of a vehicle body. The pair of webs connect the pair of flanges at joint portions of each of the pair of webs such that the pair of webs and the pair of flanges form a closed cross section in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, and the pair of webs do not have a welded portion.

Abstract: Provided is an airbag which further reduces the degree of injury to a vehicle occupant while also exhibiting sufficient occupant protection performance using less output from the inflator, by both preventing airbag internal pressure from rising excessively when making contact with the occupant and increasing the speed of deployment in an occupant-protection area.

Abstract: To suppress occurrence of stress corrosion cracking in a weld due to tensile residual stress generated in a web or a middle rib in case of bend forming of an aluminum alloy extrusion having the weld on the web or/and the middle rib. In bend forming of the aluminum alloy extrusion, a peak position of tensile residual stress generated in the middle rib exists in a region other than the vicinity of the weld. Since the peak position is away from the weld by a distance, tensile residual stress in the weld is reduced, making it possible to suppress occurrence of stress corrosion cracking.

Abstract: The present invention includes: a visual perception target determination unit for determining a visual perception target by using a saliency model for determining that an object to be visually perceived at a glance is a visual perception target, a surprise model for determining that an object behaving abnormally is a visual perception target, and a normative model for determining that an object to be visually perceived by a viewing action of a driver serving as a norm is a visual perception target; and a visual guidance unit for determining whether or not an overlooked visual perception to which a line-of-sight direction detected by a line-of-sight detection unit is not directed is present, and guiding a line-of-sight of a driver toward the overlooked visual perception target, when the overlooked visual perception target is present.

Abstract: Provided is a bag body which has a flatter shape in its expanded state. This bag body has control yarn therein, which controls expansion. The control yarn includes: a first seam which extends from a non-expansion section to another non-expansion section within the bag body; a second seam which is a seam forming the fabric on one surface of the expansion section of the bag body, and is formed by being separated from the fabric on said one surface, threaded through the first seam, and turned back to the fabric on said one surface; and a third seam which is a seam forming the fabric on the other surface of the expansion section of the bag body, and is formed by being separated from the fabric on the other surface, threaded through the first seam, and turned back to the fabric on the other surface.

Abstract: Provided is a structure for a front part of a vehicle, including a vehicle main body, a pair of suspension support portions, and a cowl member connected to the pair of suspension support portions. The cowl member has: an inner part connection portion which has a shape extending continuously in a vehicle width direction between the pair of suspension support portions and which interconnects respective inner parts of the pair of suspension support portions in the vehicle width direction; and a water drain portion which is provided backward of the inner part connection portion in a front-rear direction of the vehicle and drains water toward a side part of the vehicle in the vehicle width direction. The inner part connection portion has a thickness larger than a thickness of the water drain portion.

Abstract: A door beam includes an aluminum alloy extrusion body extended in a longitudinal direction and having a pair of webs and a pair of flanges to be positioned on an inner side and an outer side in a width direction of a vehicle body. The pair of webs connect the pair of flanges at joint portions of each of the pair of webs such that the pair of webs and the pair of flanges form a closed cross section in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, and the pair of webs do not have a welded portion.

Abstract: A curable resin obtained by reacting a polybasic anhydride with a reaction product of an epoxy resin with a phenol compound having an alcoholic hydroxyl group and an unsaturated monobasic acid, wherein an epoxy resin having a softening point of 93° C. or higher is used as the epoxy resin.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus that forms a toner image on a recording medium includes an image forming unit that forms an unfixed toner image on a recording medium; a fixing unit that heats the recording medium bearing the unfixed toner image and fixes the unfixed toner image onto the recording medium at a nip portion; a heating member and a pressurizing member that touches the heating member and forms the nip portion therebetween; a first blower that blows air to a non-sheet-passing area of a small-size recording medium in the heating member; and a second blower that blows air to a non-sheet-passing area of a small-size recording medium in the pressurizing member. Upon the temperature of the non-sheet-passing area of the heating member exceeding a threshold temperature, the first blower blows without the second blower blowing, then the two blowers start blowing together.

Abstract: A vehicular trunk lid panel includes an inner panel that includes an inner upper surface section and an inner rear surface section, an outer panel that includes an outer upper surface section and an outer rear surface section, and a plurality of adhesive members, in which the inner upper surface section includes a plurality of beads, each bead includes a support section that supports the adhesive members, each adhesive member is arranged on the support section so as to be arrayed intermittently along a predetermined direction, and a support section interval between the support sections adjacent to each other with respect to a crossing direction is smaller than an adhesive member interval between the adhesive members adjacent to each other on each of the support sections.

Abstract: A sheet regulating portion includes a body portion including a regulating surface facing an edge of a sheet, a pressing member having a pressing portion capable of projecting out of the body portion, an upper portion formed integrally with an upper part of the pressing portion so as to project to a sheet side and regulating an upward move of the sheet, and an urging member to urge the pressing member so that the pressing portion presses the edge of the sheet. In addition, a holding portion holds the pressing portion movably from a projecting position where the pressing portion projects out of the body portion to a retracting position where the upper portion enters within the body portion while inclining the pressing portion with respect to the regulating surface by resisting against the urging member when the upper portion is pressed from above.

Abstract: Provided is an air-bag capable of further reducing damage value to a passenger and limiting the amount of use of inflator gas by limiting an excessive increase in the internal pressure of the air-bag upon contacting the passenger while increasing the speed of deployment in a passenger protection area. The air-bag includes a main chamber and a sub-chamber that are connected via a communication portion, wherein the communication portion or a region adjacent to the communication portion is configured of a multilayer structure portion comprising three or more layers.

Abstract: A hood inner panel of an automobile hood structure includes: an outer peripheral skeleton portion disposed at an outer peripheral portion and having an annular shape, the skeleton portion having a recessed-top cross sectional shape orthogonal to the circumferential direction of the annular shape; and an outer proximal surface extending inwardly from the outer peripheral skeleton portion and mastic-joined with a hood outer panel. A vertical wall connecting the outer proximal surface and a bottom surface of the outer peripheral skeleton portion includes a plurality of trim holes except for a ridge line where the vertical wall and the bottom surface meet and for the bottom surface.

Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus includes a sheet support portion to support a sheet, an ascending portion to raise the sheet support portion, a feeding portion to feed the sheet, a moving portion to move the feeding portion between a separated position and a feeding position, a holding portion to move between a holding position and an allowing position, a drive source, and a transmission unit including a first transmission portion to transmit the driving force to the ascending portion and a second transmission portion to transmit the driving force to the holding portion.

Abstract: A door beam includes an aluminum alloy extrusion body extended in a longitudinal direction and having a pair of webs and a pair of flanges to be positioned on an inner side and an outer side in a width direction of a vehicle body. The pair of webs connect the pair of flanges at joint portions of each of the pair of webs such that the pair of webs and the pair of flanges form a closed cross section in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, and the pair of webs do not have a welded portion.

Abstract: A sheet supporting apparatus includes a sheet supporting portion supported liftably between a standby position and a lifted position, a lifting portion arranged below the sheet supporting portion, and configured to lift the sheet supporting portion toward the lifted position by pressing the sheet supporting portion from below. The sheet supporting portion includes a supporting surface defining a non-interference region in which a width regulating portion can move in a width direction. A projected portion is provided on the lifting portion, and configured to project upward toward a non-interference region.