Abstract: A side airbag apparatus which allows a reduced amount of base fabric and, enables gas to flow efficiently inside the cushion. An inflator (110) supplies gas, a cushion (104) in which base fabrics are formed into a bag shape and inflates and deploys to protect an occupant (118) during a vehicle emergency, a base fabric joint portion (120) which is provided to join main panels 108a and 108b of the cushion (104) in a linear manner and partitions the cushion (104) into a rear chamber (114), a front chamber (116), and an opening (123) provided midway along the base fabric joint portion (120). The base fabric joint portion (120) includes vent forming portions 125a and 125b arranged in two rows which extend from both ends of the opening (123) towards the front chamber (116) or rear chamber (114) and form a projecting vent (124). The projecting vent (124) permits flow of gas between the rear chamber (114) and the front chamber (116).

Abstract: An airbag device capable of avoiding interference between a cushion and a structure at an upper part of a vehicle interior. An airbag device (100) provided in a vehicle having a prescribed structure (152) such as a rearview mirror suspended from an upper part of a vehicle interior includes a cushion (108) inflated and deployed into a bag shape to restrain an occupant of a seat from a front side, and an avoidance-shaped part (154) provided at an upper part of the cushion (108) to avoid contact between the inflated and deployed cushion (108) and the structure (152), and the avoidance-shaped part (154) is recessed downward over a range between positions at prescribed distances from the structure (152) in vehicle forward and backward directions, respectively.

Abstract: A vehicle side airbag device including a shoulder protection part and a chest protection part that lifts an occupant's arm in a collision state while protecting the occupant's shoulder. A side airbag (1) is provided at a seat (2) and spread out in a non-inflated state, the contour on the front side in the vehicle body front-back direction has an inflection position C with a curvature change midway between the shoulder protection part X and the chest protection part Y, an upper edge line U upward and a lower edge line L downward from the inflection position. The inflection position is ahead of the shoulder protection part and above a center line F that extends lengthwise of an occupant upper arm A and divides the upper arm into upper and lower portions, and the lower edge line crosses the center line from an upper side to a lower side and positioned under the center line in a lower end position Au of the occupant upper arm.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide an airbag apparatus in which the injury value of a passenger can be efficiently suppressed in an emergency. [Resolution means] An airbag apparatus 100 is provided with a cushion 108 which expands and deploys from in front of a seat 104. The cushion 108 is provided with: a front restraining part 128 which restrains the head 146 of a passenger 144 from the front of a vehicle; and protrusion parts 124, 126 which are provided beside the front restraining part 128 in the width direction of the vehicle and protrude and expand further towards the rear of the vehicle than the front restraining part 128.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide an airbag anticipated to suitably protect a passenger of a vehicle. [Resolution means] The airbag according to the present embodiment includes: an inner bag having a facing surface facing a passenger of a vehicle in the deployed state; an outer bag which is provided so as to surround the outer periphery of the inner bag with the facing surface exposed; and two protrusion parts which are provided in the outer bag and respectively disposed on the left and right sides in the width direction of the vehicle with respect to the facing surface so as to protrude rearward. For example, the inner bag and the outer bag may be partitioned by a common partition wall, with a ventilation port formed in the partition wall. Moreover, for example, the inner bag and the outer bag may each be independent bag bodies, a ventilation port may be formed in both the inner bag and the outer bag, and the inner bag and the outer bag may be coupled around the ventilation port.

Abstract: An airbag device that can efficiently suppress an injury value for an occupant in an emergency includes a frontal airbag cushion that is expanded at a vehicle front side of a driver's seat and a curtain airbag cushion that is expanded at an outer side of the frontal airbag cushion in a vehicle width direction. The frontal airbag cushion includes an inner bag that is expanded by receiving a gas, inner vents that are disposed in the inner bag to discharge the gas, an outer bag that contains the inner bag therein and is expanded by receiving the gas from the inner vents and outer vents that are disposed in the outer bag to discharge the gas. A distance between the inner bag and the curtain airbag cushion is smaller than a width of a head of an occupant.

Abstract: Phenyldifluoromethyl-substituted prolinamide compounds that have a cathepsin S inhibitory effect, and are usable as active ingredients of pharmaceutical compositions for preventing and/or treating autoimmune diseases including systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and lupus nephritis, allergies, or graft rejection of an organ, bone marrow or tissue.

Abstract: A cushion 108 of an airbag device 100 includes: an inner inflating section 158 which convexly inflates toward the rear of a vehicle and which restrains the head 146 of an occupant 144 from the front of the vehicle; protrusions 124 and 126 which are provided to the sides of the inner inflating section 158 in a vehicle width direction and which are capable of inflating so as to protrude further toward the rear of the vehicle than the inner inflating section 158; and outer inflating sections 160 and 162 which are provided between the inner inflating section 158 and the protrusions 124 and 126 and which temporarily convexly inflate toward the rear of the vehicle within a smaller range than the expansion range of the inner inflating section 158 and the protrusions 124 and 126.

Abstract: Phenyldifluoromethyl-substituted prolinamide compounds that have a cathepsin S inhibitory effect, and are usable as active ingredients of pharmaceutical compositions for preventing and/or treating autoimmune diseases including systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and lupus nephritis, allergies, or graft rejection of an organ, bone marrow or tissue.

Abstract: An airbag apparatus which is capable of restraining an occupant in a stable position even during an oblique collision, and which is capable of suppressing an injury value of the occupant. An airbag apparatus 100 restrains an occupant 132 of a vehicle. The airbag apparatus 100 is provided with: a main bag 112 which is bag-shaped and inflates and deploys in front of a front passenger seat 104 of the vehicle; and a center bag 114 which is bag-shaped and inflates and deploys on an inner side of the main bag 112 in a vehicle width direction. The center bag 114 has a rear region 160 which extends further towards a rear of the vehicle than the main bag 112, and a curved surface 164, which projects towards a main bag 112 side in the vehicle width direction, is formed on the rear region 160.

Abstract: An airbag device capable of restraining an occupant in a stable position even upon an oblique collision and lowering an injury value related to the occupant. The airbag device (100) includes a main bag (112) inflated and deployed in front of a passenger seat (104) in the vehicle, a center bag (114) inflated and deployed on the inner side of the main bag (112) in the vehicle width direction, and upper side joining means (120) that is provided above a valley (128) formed between the main bag (112) and the center bag (114) and that joins the center bag (114) to the main bag (112) for a prescribed range in the vehicle front-back direction.

Abstract: An airbag device capable of restraining a motor vehicle occupant in a stable position even in an oblique collision. The airbag device includes a bag-shaped main bag inflated and deployed on a vehicle front side of the passenger seat, a bag-shaped center bag inflated and deployed on the inner side of the main bag in the vehicle widthwise direction, and a slit that provides a separation between the main bag and the center bag on the vehicle rear side. A rear end part of the center bag is inclined to gradually protrude rearward in the vehicle as the rear end part is extended upward and protrudes further to the vehicle rear side than at least the main bag.

Abstract: An airbag apparatus capable of protecting an occupant by restraining movement of the occupant in an obliquely forward direction and towards a far side during a collision. A far side airbag apparatus (102), which is an airbag apparatus, deploys between a driver seat (106) and a front passenger seat (108) arranged side by side in a vehicle width direction of a vehicle cabin (100). The apparatus (102) includes a cushion (120) which is embedded in a floor of the vehicle cabin (100) and reaches a height at least equal to that of a pelvis region (160) of an occupant (156) seated in either one of the driver seat (106) and the front passenger seat (108) during inflation and deployment.

Abstract: Phenyldifluoromethyl-substituted prolinamide compounds that have a cathepsin S inhibitory effect, and are usable as active ingredients of pharmaceutical compositions for preventing and/or treating autoimmune diseases including systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and lupus nephritis, allergies, or graft rejection of an organ, bone marrow or tissue.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide a compound useful as a cathepsin S inhibitor. [Means for Solution] The present inventors have examined a compound that has a cathepsin S inhibitory effect and is usable as an active ingredient of a pharmaceutical composition for preventing and/or treating autoimmune disease including systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and lupus nephritis, allergies, or graft rejection of an organ, bone marrow or tissue, and have found that a phenyldifluoromethyl-substituted prolinamide compound of the present invention has the cathepsin S inhibitory effect, thereby completing the present invention. The phenyldifluoromethyl-substituted prolinamide compound of the present invention has the cathepsin S inhibitory effect and is useful as an agent for preventing and/or treating autoimmune disease including SLE and nephritis, allergies, or graft rejection of an organ, bone marrow or tissue.

Abstract: An airbag device 100 includes: an inflator 112 that is provided in a vehicle and capable of supplying gas; and an outer bag 114 that inflates, by using the gas, in a prescribed shape in front of an occupant 134 sitting in a seat 102 of the vehicle. The outer bag 114 includes an outside base fabric 122 forming an outer surface thereof, an opening part 126 provided in a prescribed area of the outside base fabric 122, and an inside base fabric 124 forming an inner peripheral surface thereof recessed in a concave shape from the opening part 126 and inflating so as to protrude partially from the opening part 126 to a side of the seat. In the airbag device 100, the inside base fabric 124 has lower tension than the outside base fabric 122 and restrains the occupant 134.

Abstract: An airbag device which is capable of efficiently suppressing an injury value of an occupant during an emergency. The airbag device 100 includes: an inflator 112 which is installed in a vehicle and which is capable of supplying gas; a main bag 114 which inflates to the front of a seat of the vehicle due to the gas; and an outer bag 116 which inflates so as to surround the main bag 114 due to the gas. The outer bag 116 includes an opening 118 which opens toward an occupant sitting on the seat and which exposes a portion (a rear region 120) of the main bag 114. The outer bag 116 surrounds and presses against the main bag 114, such that the portion of the main bag 114 protrudes from the opening 118 toward the occupant.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicle side airbag device including a shoulder protection part and a chest protection part and being capable of protecting the chest by the chest protection part that lifts an arm softly without flipping the same as required depending on a collision state while protecting a shoulder by the shoulder protection part.

Abstract: An airbag device for restraining an occupant even during an oblique collision and suppressing head injury values. An airbag device 100 includes: a passenger bag 112 which deploys on a front side of a passenger seat 104; a center bag 114 which deploys on an inner side in a vehicle width direction; a slit 128 which separates the passenger bag 112 and the center bag 114 from each other on a vehicle rearward side; and a tether belt 122 which which is connected to a first connecting part 124 on the center bag 114 and a second connecting part 126 on the passenger bag 112. The tether belt 122 is tensioned as the passenger bag 112 and the center bag 114 expand and deploy, and the center bag 114 restrains a side of the occupant head E1a while being supported by the tether belt 122.

Abstract: A side airbag apparatus which allows a reduced amount of base fabric and, enables gas to flow efficiently inside the cushion. An inflator (110) supplies gas, a cushion (104) in which base fabrics are formed into a bag shape and inflates and deploys to protect an occupant (118) during a vehicle emergency, a base fabric joint portion (120) which is provided to join main panels 108a and 108b of the cushion (104) in a linear manner and partitions the cushion (104) into a rear chamber (114), a front chamber (116), and an opening (123) provided midway along the base fabric joint portion (120). The base fabric joint portion (120) includes vent forming portions 125a and 125b arranged in two rows which extend from both ends of the opening (123) towards the front chamber (116) or rear chamber (114) and form a projecting vent (124). The projecting vent (124) permits flow of gas between the rear chamber (114) and the front chamber (116).