Abstract: In an occupant protection device, an airbag disposed in a region of a lap belt of a seat belt includes a bag body and a conduit connected to an inflator disposed near a lower end of a seat portion of a seat. The airbag is held by the lap belt in a folded state. The conduit is disposed substantially along the lap belt while being held by a conduit holder. The conduit holder is formed of a material having flexibility and higher rigidity than the conduit, is disposed substantially along the conduit, and has both end sides fixed to a seat side and a bag body side, respectively, by a seat-side fixing portion or a bag body-side fixing portion.

Abstract: An occupant protection device includes an airbag mounted on a seat of a vehicle and attached to a belt body of a seat belt in a folded state. The airbag is inflated so as to allow an inflation gas discharged from an inflator to flow into the airbag and protect an occupant seated on the seat while protruding forward. An airbag cover is formed in an elongated shape that can cover an outer periphery of part of the belt body and a folding completion body corresponding to a state where the airbag is folded, and is closed such that at least the belt body is allowed to be inserted therethrough at both ends in the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: An occupant protection device includes a seatbelt having a lap belt portion; an inflator; and an airbag that is provided in the lap belt portion. The airbag includes a main body portion, a conduit portion, and a tether. When inflation is completed the main body portion includes a rear wall portion to which one end portion of the tether is linked, a front wall portion that is disposed in front of the rear wall portion, and to which another end portion of the tether is linked, and an upper wall portion that connects the rear wall portion and the front wall portion above the tether. The main body portion is supported by a supporting body via the tether by the tether catching on and being engaged with the supporting body.

Abstract: An occupant protection device includes an airbag mounted on a seat of a vehicle and attached to a belt body of a seat belt in a folded state. The airbag is inflated so as to allow an inflation gas discharged from an inflator to flow into the airbag and protect an occupant seated on the seat while protruding forward. An airbag cover is formed in an elongated shape that can cover an outer periphery of part of the belt body and a folding completion body corresponding to a state where the airbag is folded, and is closed such that at least the belt body is allowed to be inserted therethrough at both ends in the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: In an occupant protection device, an airbag disposed in a region of a lap belt of a seat belt includes a bag body and a conduit connected to an inflator disposed near a lower end of a seat portion of a seat. The airbag is held by the lap belt in a folded state. The conduit is disposed substantially along the lap belt while being held by a conduit holder. The conduit holder is formed of a material having flexibility and higher rigidity than the conduit, is disposed substantially along the conduit, and has both end sides fixed to a seat side and a bag body side, respectively, by a seat-side fixing portion or a bag body-side fixing portion.

Abstract: An occupant protection device includes the following: a seatbelt having a lap belt portion; an inflator; and an airbag that is provided in the lap belt portion, the airbag including a main body portion, a conduit portion, and a tether, wherein the main body portion when inflation is completed includes a rear wall portion to which one end portion of the tether is linked, a front wall portion that is disposed in front of the rear wall portion, and to which another end portion of the tether is linked, and an upper wall portion that connects the rear wall portion and the front wall portion above the tether, and wherein the main body portion is supported by a supporting body via the tether by the tether catching on and being engaged with the supporting body.

Abstract: A steering wheel includes a boss, two spokes supported at the boss, a grip fixed to each spoke, and a rotation control mechanism arranged between the boss and each spoke. The rotation control mechanisms are each configured to define a maximum rotation angle by which each grip is rotated from the neutral position in a near-side direction and a maximum rotation angle by which each grip is rotated from the neutral position in a far-side direction. The rotation control mechanisms are each configured to return each grip to the neutral position when a vehicle is traveling straight. The maximum rotation angle in the far-side direction is set to be larger than the maximum rotation angle in the near-side direction in each rotation control mechanism.

Abstract: A steering wheel includes a boss, two spokes supported at the boss, a grip fixed to each spoke, and a rotation control mechanism arranged between the boss and each spoke. The rotation control mechanisms are each configured to define a maximum rotation angle by which each grip is rotated from the neutral position in a near-side direction and a maximum rotation angle by which each grip is rotated from the neutral position in a far-side direction. The rotation control mechanisms are each configured to return each grip to the neutral position when a vehicle is traveling straight. The maximum rotation angle in the far-side direction is set to be larger than the maximum rotation angle in the near-side direction in each rotation control mechanism.

Abstract: An airbag device includes an airbag, an airbag cover and a holder for holding the airbag and airbag cover. The airbag cover includes a door that is openable around a hinge at airbag deployment, and a side wall that is disposed around the door and attached to the holder. A functional component is held by a holding member and disposed in the door. The holding member includes a distal-side connecting portion that is fixed to the functional component, a root-side connecting portion that is secured to the holder, and a deformable portion that is disposed between the distal-side connecting portion and the root-side connecting portion. The deformable portion is configured to be plastically deformed at airbag deployment while having the distal-side connecting portion keep holding the functional component and suppressing a centrifugal force of the functional component from acting on the hinge of the door of the airbag cover.

Abstract: The method to produce the vertical alignment type liquid crystal display employs treating an optical film comprising of cellulous ester with an aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide to prepare an alkali-treated optical film; immersing a polyvinyl alcohol film in an aqueous solution containing iodine and boric acid; stretching the polyvinyl alcohol film to prepare a polarizing film; adhering the alkali-treated optical film onto both surfaces of the polarizing film to prepare a polarizing plate; and providing the polarizing plate on both surfaces of a vertical alignment type liquid crystal cell to providing the vertical alignment type liquid crystal display. At least one of the optical film has a retardation value (Rt value) in the thickness direction of from 60 to 300 nm, Rt=[(nx+ny)/2?nz]×d.

Abstract: The method to produce the vertical alignment type liquid crystal display employs treating an optical film comprising of cellulous ester with an aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide to prepare an alkali-treated optical film; immersing a polyvinyl alcohol film in an aqueous solution containing iodine and boric acid; stretching the polyvinyl alcohol film to prepare a polarizing film; adhering the alkali-treated optical film onto both surfaces of the polarizing film to prepare a polarizing plate; and providing the polarizing plate on both surfaces of a vertical alignment type liquid crystal cell to providing the vertical alignment type liquid crystal display. At least one of the optical film has a retardation value (Rt value) in the thickness direction of from 60 to 300 nm, Rt=[(nx+ny)/2?nz]×d.

Abstract: Disclosed is an optically anisotropic film used for a liquid crystal display of a vertical alignment liquid crystal mode comprising a fatty acid cellulose aster film, a retardation value (Rt value) in the thickness direction of the fatty acid cellulose ester film is from 60 to 300 nm, and the number of luminescent points having a size exceeding 50 ?m is zero per 250 mm2, and the number of luminescent points having a size of 5 to 50 ?m is 200 or less per 250 mm2 when the fatty acid cellulose ester film is observed with two polarizing plates being provided on both surfaces of the fatty acid cellulose ester film so as to shield transmission light.

Abstract: A rolled optical film includes a cellulose ester film which has a width of from 1 m to 3 m and a length of 500 m or more and is shaped in a rolled film. The cellulose ester film includes streaks from 1 line to 20 lines per 10 mm in a lateral direction thereof in which the streaks have a height of from 50 nm to 300 nm, an inclination of from 50 nm/mm to 300 nm/mm and a continuous length of 50 cm or more in a longitudinal direction thereof and the cellulose ester film does no includes a streak which has a height of 300 nm or more, an inclination of 300 nm/mm or more and a continuous length of 50 cm or more in a longitudinal direction thereof.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a cellulose ester film satisfying the relationships, Nx>Ny>Nz, and 0.8?Rt/R0?3.5, the method comprising casting a cellulose ester dope containing a solvent of a good solvent and a poor solvent on a support to form a web; peeling the web from the support; transporting the peeled web (step D0); holding the edges in the transverse direction of the web (step A); stretching the resulting web in the transverse direction while applying a tension; reducing the tension in the transverse direction of the web; and drying the stretched web, wherein the residual solvent content of the web is 5 to 90% by weight at the beginning in the step A, and the residual poor solvent content in the residual solvent content of the web is from 15 to 95% by weight at the terminal point in the Step D0.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing a polarizing plate including the steps of: laminating a polarizing plate protective film A on one side of a polarizer; and laminating a polarizing plate protective film B on the other side of the polarizer, wherein the polarizing plate protective film B contains a noncrystalline polyolefin resin; and the polarizing plate protective film A is a solidified film produced in such a manner that a melted film prepared by extruding a melted substance containing a cellulose resin from a die is conveyed while pressed against a cooling roll by a touch roll so as to have a draw ratio of 10 to 30 and to be solidified on the cooling roll, provided that the touch roll has an outer metal cylinder, an inner metal cylinder and a space formed therebetween for accommodating a cooling medium.

Abstract: A method for producing an optical film, characterized by extruding a melt containing a cellulose ester resin from a casting die to thereby form a long length cellulose ester film at a draw ratio of 5 to 30, slitting both sides of the long length cellulose ester film and winding the same in roll form, and while unrolling the long length cellulose ester film from the roll, carrying out continuous coating of the surface hereof with an optical function layer.

Abstract: A polarizing plate used in a vertical alignment mode liquid crystal display comprising a liquid crystal cell is disclosed, wherein the polarizing plate comprises a polarizing film and a mixed fatty acid cellulose ester film with optical biaxiality provided between the polarizing film and the liquid crystal cell, and wherein the mixed fatty acid cellulose ester film has a retardation in plane R0 of from 31 to 120 nm, and a retardation in the thickness direction Rt of from 60 to 300 nm, in which R0 is represented by the following formula (1) and Rt is represented by the following formula (2): R0=(nx?ny)×d??formula (1) Rt={(nx+ny)/2?nz}×d.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for production of a film, which comprises the steps of: extruding a molted material containing a cellulose resin on a cooling roll from a die in a film-like form at a draw ratio ranging from 10 to 30 inclusive; pressing the extruded molted film on the cooling roll with a touch roll; and transferring the molted film while solidifying the film on the cooling roll, wherein the touch roll has a metal-made outer cylinder, an inner cylinder, and a space for accommodating a cooling medium between the metal-made outer cylinder and the inner cylinder and also has a touch roll linear pressure ranging from 1 to 15 kg/cm inclusive during pressing with the touch roll.

Abstract: Disclosed is an optically anisotropic film used for a liquid crystal display of a vertical alignment liquid crystal mode comprising a fatty acid cellulose aster film, a retardation value (Rt value) in the thickness direction of the fatty acid cellulose ester film is from 60 to 300 nm, and the number of luminescent points having a size exceeding 50 ?m is zero per 250 mm2, and the number of luminescent points having a size of 5 to 50 ?m is 200 or less per 250 mm2 when the fatty acid cellulose ester film is observed with two polarizing plates being provided on both surfaces of the fatty acid cellulose ester film so as to shield transmission light.

Abstract: An optically anisotropic film is disclosed. The film comprises a fatty acid cellulose ester film support having an acetyl group and a propionyl group, and a liquid crystal layer containing a liquid crystal compound, or a resin layer containing polyimide, polyamidoimide, polyamide, polyether imide, polyether ether ketone, polyether ketone, polyketone sulfide, polyether sulfone, polysulfone, polyphenylene sulfide, polyphenylene oxide, polyethylene terephthalate, polybutylene terephthalate, polyethylene naphthalate, polyacetal, polycarbonate, polyallylate, acrylic resin, polyvinyl alcohol, polypropylene, cellulose based plastics, epoxy resin, or phenol resin.