An armrest includes a protruded section extending in a vehicular front-rear direction and protruded toward a vehicular interior side, and the protruded section includes an upper section, a lower section, and an intermediate section that is between the upper section and the lower section and connects the upper section and the lower section on a vehicular interior side. The armrest further includes ribs that are on a vehicular exterior side with respect to the intermediate section and arranged in the vehicular front-rear direction and each of the ribs extends from the upper section to the lower section. The ribs include a low rigidity rib and a high rigidity rib that are arranged next to each other in the vehicular front-rear direction, and the high rigidity rib having rigidity higher than that of the low rigidity rib.

A deployable containment system of a vehicle includes a pair of guide channels that surround an opening facing one of a forward direction of travel of the vehicle and a backward direction of travel of the vehicle. Each of the guide channels has a first end and a second end. A housing is mounted to the first ends of the guide channels. A shield is configured to: deploy from the housing; travel along the guide channels toward the second ends of the guide channels; and cover at least a portion of the opening, An actuator is configured to, in response to being triggered, deploy the shield from the housing and move the shield along the guide channels toward the second ends of the guide channels.

An upper reinforcement for a door trim panel includes a reinforcement channel, and a rib extending across the reinforcement channel. More particularly, the rib includes a first end section that engages a first wall of the channel, a second end section that engages a third wall of the channel and an intermediate section that extends across a window in the second wall of the channel.

There is provided an interior component for a vehicle including an impact absorbing member that is lightweight and compact while improving energy absorption efficiency in the event of a side collision. A side door component includes a door panel; a door trim attached to the door panel; and a protector disposed between the door panel and the door trim and attached to one of the door panel and the door trim. The protector has a bottom surface on which fixing portions attached to the one of the door panel and the door trim are formed, and a facing surface facing the other of the door panel and the door trim, and is attached to the one of the door panel and the door trim in a cantilever manner.

A personal automotive vehicle includes a seat and a moveable door panel in an interior of the passenger cabin, both of which are moveable between a forward and a rearward position. The moveable door panel is configured for movement such that a longitudinal position of the door panel with respect to the seat can be maintained with corresponding seat movement. The moveable door panel can help provide a perception to a seat occupant that they are properly positioned within the passenger cabin, even at an extreme rearward seat position.

An armrest assembly includes a body outlining a crushable space. The body includes a first deformation initiating feature, a second deformation initiating feature, a deformation propagating feature and a fracture initiating feature provided at spaced locations around the crushable space. The features function to dissipate energy in the event of a side impact and therefore force or load that might be transmitted to a motor vehicle occupant as a result of a side impact.

An upper reinforcement for a door trim panel includes a reinforcement channel, softening features within reinforcement channel, a tab depending from the reinforcement channel, and a trigger feature between the reinforcement channel and the tab whereby the reinforcement channel is released from the tab during a side impact. A method of tuning performance characteristics of the upper reinforcement is also described.

A door assembly for a motor vehicle includes a door trim panel attached to a door body on the vehicle inside. The door trim panel includes a first impact region and a second impact region formed integrally therewith, wherein at each of the impact regions, an intermediate space is formed between the door trim panel and the door body. In order to allow an optimized protection of an occupant's pelvic region from injury by a vehicle door in a side impact, the door trim panel includes a channel portion, which is recessed back towards the door body, is formed between the impact regions and has two mutually opposite wall portions extending in the vehicle transverse direction, each of which is formed integrally with an impact region.

An embodiment vehicle panel assembly includes an inner panel configured to wrap a roof and opposite pillars of a vehicle body, the inner panel including a second inner assembly portion provided at pillar-side opposite side parts and a guide portion provided at an upper side of the second inner assembly portion, and an outer panel configured to be loaded from above the inner panel and coupled to the inner panel to wrap an outside of the inner panel, the outer panel including a second outer assembly portion provided at a side part, the second outer assembly portion configured to be guided downwards by the guide portion when loaded from above and facing the second inner assembly portion after loading, wherein the second outer assembly portion is fastened to the second inner assembly portion.

Provided are a polymeric article and a composite article capable of obtaining favorable texture with a high resilience by using thermoplastic elastomer. A composite article includes: a first member; and a second member having a plate-shaped portion and a plurality of protrusions protruding from the back surface of the plate-shaped portion and having protruding ends contacting the first member, and cushioning properties are imparted to the composite article by elastic deformation of the second member. The plate-shaped portion and the plurality of protrusions are integrally made of solid thermoplastic elastomer or slightly-foamed thermoplastic elastomer with an expansion ratio of 1.1 or less, the thermoplastic elastomer having an impact resilience modulus of 30 to 90% at 23 C. measured in accordance with JIS K6255, and a hysteresis loss rate measured at 23 C. by compressing and depressurizing the composite article at a speed of 60 mm/min is 28% or less.