Abstract: A completely folded body of an airbag includes: a folded body and a retainer, which is assembled to the folded body, including: an annular bottom wall portion; a plurality of fixing units; and a reinforcing rib, wherein: the folded body of the airbag is configured in such a folded shape that the airbag is folded to be gathered to an upper side of the retainer; the folded body is arranged with a bottom wall cover portion and a bottom wall separated portion which extends from the bottom wall cover portion; and the bottom wall separated portion includes a stepped surface having a vertical surface bent upward from the bottom wall cover portion, and a horizontal surface which is disposed above the bottom wall cover portion from an upper end of the vertical surface and extends toward an outer circumferential edge of the bottom wall separated portion.

Abstract: In a reference state of a rotation angle detector, plural first output coils include first output coils having the number of windings of Ai and Aj, plural second output coils include second output coils having the number of windings Bk and Bm. The rotation angle detector includes at least one configuration from among: a configuration in which the numbers of windings of the first and second output coils are the same numbers of windings as in the reference state, with the exception that the number of windings Ai is the number of windings Ai±a or the number of windings Aj is the number of windings Aj±a; and a configuration in which the number of windings Bk is the number of windings Bk±b or the number of windings Bm is the number of windings Bm±b.

Abstract: An airbag includes an internal pressure adjusting mechanism: including: a tether arranged in a bag part; a long side part; and a short side part; and adjusting an exhaust of the inflation gas: to be in an exhaust mode in which the exhaust is facilitated when the tether is loosened; and to be in an exhaust suppression mode in which the exhaust is suppressed when the tether is stretched. In a state where the tether is loosened during the exhaust mode, facing edge parts of the long side part and the short side part are separable. In a state where the tether is stretched during the exhaust suppression mode, the facing edge part of the long side part and a root side part are inflated around the short side part and a leading edge side part contacts a back surface side of the short side part.

Abstract: In a resolver, a detecting stator core includes a first detection winding group, a second detection winding group, and a plurality of excitation windings. The first detection winding group includes a plurality of first windings as detection windings. The second detection winding group includes, as detection windings, a plurality of second windings different from the first windings in the phase of the detection voltage. The excitation windings are each wound around one of teeth of the detecting stator core. Each first winding and each second winding are wound around different teeth from each other without being wound around the same tooth. The detection winding and the excitation winding that are wound around the same tooth are arranged so as to be separated from each other in a radial direction.

Abstract: In a core for a rotary electric machine, first end portions of back yoke portions are linked to second end portions of back yoke portions of adjacent core segments so as to be rotatable around pivot portions. Each of the core segments is configured by alternately laminating first core segment sheets and second core segment sheets. The pivot portions are constituted by interfitting protruding portions that are formed on the first core segment sheets. The core segments are displaceable relative to the adjacent core segments between a contracted position in which spacing between the magnetic pole tooth portions is contracted and an expanded position in which spacing between the magnetic pole tooth portions is expanded, when the core segment linked body is opened out rectilinearly.

Abstract: An airbag includes on the rear plane a passenger protection portion for protecting a front seat passenger. The passenger protection portion includes a front-collision arresting plane for protecting a head of the passenger as he moves forward in the event of a frontal collision of the vehicle and an oblique-collision arresting plane that is disposed at least either on the left or on the right of the front-collision arresting plane in such a manner as to protrude rearward out of the front-collision arresting plane for protecting the head of the passenger as he moves diagonally forward in the event of an oblique or offset collision of the vehicle. The passenger protection portion further includes an arresting recess that is disposed between the front-collision arresting plane and oblique-collision arresting plane in such a manner as to be sunken forward for receiving and arresting the head of the passenger.

Abstract: In a reference state of a rotation angle detector, plural first output coils include first output coils having the number of windings of Ai and Aj, plural second output coils include second output coils having the number of windings Bk and Bm. The rotation angle detector includes at least one configuration from among: a configuration in which the numbers of windings of the first and second output coils are the same numbers of windings as in the reference state, with the exception that the number of windings Ai is the number of windings Ai±a or the number of windings Aj is the number of windings Aj±a; and a configuration in which the number of windings Bk is the number of windings Bk+b or the number of windings Bm is the number of windings Bm±b.

Abstract: An airbag includes on the rear plane a passenger protection portion for protecting a front seat passenger. The passenger protection portion includes a front-collision arresting plane for protecting a head of the passenger as he moves forward in the event of a frontal collision of the vehicle and an oblique-collision arresting plane that is disposed at least either on the left or on the right of the front-collision arresting plane in such a manner as to protrude rearward out of the front-collision arresting plane for protecting the head of the passenger as he moves diagonally forward in the event of an oblique or offset collision of the vehicle. The passenger protection portion further includes an arresting recess that is disposed between the front-collision arresting plane and oblique-collision arresting plane in such a manner as to be sunken forward for receiving and arresting the head of the passenger.

Abstract: A folding preparation body includes a pre-folded portion folded in a folded shape of being gathered to an upper side of the inflow opening and mounted in the steering wheel, the pre-folded portion includes a portion in which the front edge of the initial preparation body is folded to approach the inflow opening in the vehicle body side wall, the vehicle body side wall of the folding preparation body includes a non-folded portion from the inflow opening to a crease of the pre-folded portion and a folded portion which is folded from the crease to be overlapped on the lower surface of the non-folded portion, and the pre-folded portion includes the folded portion of the vehicle body side wall and a lower surface side portion, which covers an outer surface of the folded portion, in the cover portion of the driver side wall.

Abstract: An airbag device includes: an airbag having an inflow opening for introducing an inflation gas and being formed in a folded body; a bag holder attached to a peripheral edge of the inflow opening; an airbag cover attached to the bag holder; and an inflator disposed by inserting an upper side in the folded body from the inflow opening, wherein: the airbag cover has a ceiling wall that covers an upper surface remote from the inflow opening of the folded body; the folded body is equipped with a housing recess that is capable of housing a top of a main body unit of the inflator; a part around the housing recess is supported by the bag holder; and a ceiling surface of the housing recess is formed as a shape in which a clearance is provided between the top of the main body unit of the inserted inflator.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a folded body of an airbag, which is inflated by allowing an inflation gas, including: an inflow opening through which the inflation gas is allowed to flow; and an attachment portion of the circumferential edge of the inflow opening, the airbag being formed as a folded body having a folded shape of being gathered to an upper side of the attachment portion, the attachment portion being attached to an attachment seat of a storage portion, the method includes: folding the airbag, in the state of raising a temperature of the airbag, to form a pre-folded body; heating and compressing the pre-folded body, and cooling and compressing the pre-folded body, which is heated and compressed, to form the folded body.

Abstract: A completely folded body of an airbag includes: a folded body and a retainer, which is assembled to the folded body, including: an annular bottom wall portion; a plurality of fixing units; and a reinforcing rib, wherein: the folded body of the airbag is configured in such a folded shape that the airbag is folded to be gathered to an upper side of the retainer; the folded body is arranged with a bottom wall cover portion and a bottom wall separated portion which extends from the bottom wall cover portion; and the bottom wall separated portion includes a stepped surface having a vertical surface bent upward from the bottom wall cover portion, and a horizontal surface which is disposed above the bottom wall cover portion from an upper end of the vertical surface and extends toward an outer circumferential edge of the bottom wall separated portion,

Abstract: A core segment linked body when opened out rectilinearly is configured: such that a distance between adjacent width reduced portions is greater than a width dimension of width expanded portions when adjacent core segments are in an expanded position, and the distance between the adjacent width reduced portions is less than the width dimension of the width expanded portions when the adjacent core segments are in a contracted position; and so as to satisfy (te?tn)/?s?>0, and 0<(te?tn)/te?0.27, where ?s? is a distance between center lines of the adjacent magnetic pole teeth in the expanded position, te is a width dimension of tooth main portions, and to is the width dimension of the width reduced portions.

Abstract: In a core for a rotary electric machine, first end portions of back yoke portions are linked to second end portions of back yoke portions of adjacent core segments so as to be rotatable around pivot portions. Each of the core segments is configured by alternately laminating first core segment sheets and second core segment sheets. The pivot portions are constituted by interfitting protruding portions that are formed on the first core segment sheets. The core segments are displaceable relative to the adjacent core segments between a contracted position in which spacing between the magnetic pole tooth portions is contracted and an expanded position in which spacing between the magnetic pole tooth portions is expanded, when the core segment linked body is opened out rectilinearly.

Abstract: A lower limb protecting air bag includes: a main body inflation part; an end side inflation part; a bending part configured to bend the end side inflation part to project backward from the main body inflation part in inflation completion; and a connecting element configured to connect together the end side inflation part and the main body inflation part so that the bent state of the end side inflation part in inflation completion is maintained, wherein: the main body inflation part and the end side inflation part are configured to inflate substantially in a plate shape to separate a front side wall disposed on the back side and a back side wall disposed on the front side when the air bag is developed flat; and the bending part includes a seam part formed by superimposing and connecting together the front side wall and the back side wall.

Abstract: An airbag includes a main bag section which protrudes rearward out of a housing and deploys in front of a front passenger seat and a center bag section which deploys toward an inboard direction from the main bag section in a width direction of the vehicle and in front of a space between the front passenger seat and a driver's seat in such a manner as to extend rearward from a side of the housing. A rear end region of the center bag section is deployable rearward relative to the main bag section. The airbag further includes an outer tether which extends outside of the airbag from a front end region of the center bag section and is connected to a vicinity of the housing by a leading end of the outer tether.

Abstract: An excitation winding is wound around each tooth of a detecting stator core. First output winding and second output winding are wound around mutually different teeth while avoiding winding of the output windings with the same phase around two teeth adjacent to each other in a circumferential direction. When the number of pole pairs of the excitation winding is M that is an integer equal to or greater than 1 and the number of salient poles of a detecting rotor is N that is an integer equal to or greater than 1, a spatial distribution of the number of turns in each of the first and second output winding is obtained by a function represented by a sine wave of a spatial order |M±N|. An error spatial order ? represented by |M?|M±N? and an error spatial order ? represented by |??M| are values other than 1 and 2.

Abstract: An airbag for an airbag device for a front passenger seat is housed in a housing in the shape of a folded-up body in front of a front passenger seat. The airbag includes a main bag section that includes at the rear plane as deployed a front-collision arresting plane for catching a passenger as moves forward and an auxiliary bag section that protrudes rearward out of the front-collision arresting plane. The lateral of the auxiliary bag section facing towards the front-collision arresting plane serves as an oblique-collision arresting plane for catching the passenger as moves diagonally forward, The folded-up body of the airbag includes a means for temporarily jointing the auxiliary bag section in a folded up configuration to the main bag section and preventing the auxiliary bag section from protruding out of the front-collision arresting plane in an initial stage of airbag deployment.

Abstract: An airbag includes on the rear plane a passenger protection portion for protecting a front seat passenger. The passenger protection portion includes a front-collision arresting plane for protecting a head of the passenger as he moves forward in the event of a frontal collision of the vehicle and an oblique-collision arresting plane that is disposed at least either on the left or on the right of the front-collision arresting plane in such a manner as to protrude rearward out of the front-collision arresting plane for protecting the head of the passenger as he moves diagonally forward in the event of an oblique or offset collision of the vehicle. The passenger protection portion further includes an arresting recess that is disposed between the front-collision arresting plane and oblique-collision arresting plane in such a manner as to be sunken forward for receiving and arresting the head of the passenger.

Abstract: A lower limb protecting air bag, folded stored in front of an occupant seated in a seat and inflatable to cover the front of the lower limbs of the occupant by inflation gas supplied therein, includes: a main body inflation part configured to cover the front of the lower limbs of the occupant when inflation is completed; and a shin protection part arranged at least on one end side of the main body inflation part in the horizontal direction and projectable backward from the main body inflation part for covering the lateral side of the shins of the occupant in the inflation completed time, wherein the shin protection part completes inflation with an internal pressure higher than that of the main body inflation part.