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A vehicle occupant sensing system that includes a sensor assembly. The sensor assembly has a housing that includes a base and an upper slide member. The upper slide member is moveable toward and away from the base. A sensor is operatively fixed relative to at least one of the upper slide member and the base and is operable to detect movement of the upper slide member toward and away from the base. Additionally, the vehicle occupant sensing system includes a variable biasing member adapted to bias the upper slide member away from the base with a force that is non-linearly related to movement of the upper slide member toward and away from the base. The vehicle occupant sensing system of the present invention may be employed in a vehicle seat assembly to detect a condition of the vehicle seat assembly.

A reactant gas humidification apparatus includes a first separator provided on one surface of a water permeable membrane and a second separator provided on the other surface of the water permeable membrane. The first separator has first and second flow fields on both surfaces for supplying an air before reaction as the same reactant gas. Further, the second separator has third and fourth flow fields on both surfaces for supplying an off gas as the same humidifying fluid. The off gas is used for humidifying the air before reaction.

This invention is a lumbar support device with a pair of side rails, a plurality of transverse wires and a pair of cross-bars extending between the pair of side rails. The lumbar support device is designed for a seat back of a vehicle seat to support an occupant's lumbar region. The invention is designed to include an actuator assembly for changing the contour of the lumbar support device.

A reactant gas humidification apparatus includes a first separator provided on one surface of a water permeable membrane and a second separator provided on the other surface of the water permeable membrane. The first separator has first and second flow fields on both surfaces for supplying an air before reaction as the same reactant gas. Further, the second separator has third and fourth flow fields on both surfaces for supplying an off gas as the same humidifying fluid. The off gas is used for humidifying the air before reaction.

A conductive plate (30) for grounding a plurality of first ground wires (W) to a body of a vehicle includes a conductive plate main body (31) with a body-side grounding portion (34) to be grounded to the body by being bolted to the body. Terminal connecting portions (32B) are on one end of the conductive plate main body (31) and are to be connected to wire-side terminals (21) electrically connected to the respective first ground wires (W). A first rib group (37) and a second rib group (38) project from the conductive plate main body (31) in a thickness direction of the conductive plate main body (31) and set the rigidity of the conductive plate main body (31) to be low at a position close to the body-side grounding portion (34) and high at a position distant from the body-side grounding portion (34).

A radiant barrier rafter vent defining an elongate radiant heat reflective panel formed from a sheet of aluminum or other heat reflective material having longitudinal creases that permit compressing the panel a selected amount in a direction transverse to its length and panel strengthening spaced apart formations on the remainder of the panel. The panel have a high reflectivity and are installable in various buildings between the rafters or roof supports spaced apart from the roof and optionally coated with a sound absorbing material or include small perforations therein.

A tire having a radial carcass reinforcement winding within each bead around at least one heel reinforcement element and whose meridian profile, when the tire is mounted and inflated, has a constant direction of curvature in a first bead and a sidewall extending it radially, and has a tangent TT' to the point of tangency T of the carcass reinforcement profile with the annular element of the first bead which forms with the axis of rotation an angle phi which is open towards the outside and is greater than 45°, wherein, viewed in meridian section, at least the aforesaid sidewall comprises a reinforcing profiled element having, viewed in section, substantially the form of a crescent, one of the axially inner or outer faces of the crescent-shaped profiled element follows the profile of the carcass reinforcement, and the trace of the face of the crescent-shaped profiled element opposite the face of such profiled element closest to the carcass reinforcement has a single direction of curvature.

A hoop for play and exersise activities is provided that may be collapsed for easy transport and storage.

The pneumatic blocking support which is used to block an optical lens (200) on a machine or device has means (3) for fixing it on a corresponding element of the machine or device. The blocking means comprise a central cavity (8) and a joint (9) having at least one annular part (9) against which the lens rests in order to define a depression chamber (11) with said cavity and joint. The blocking elements include stop members (10) which are created in order to provide the optical lens with a rigid seat after the elastic compression of the joint.

A tread (1) for a tire with a preferred rolling direction, the tread having grooves (2) of substantially circumferential orientation which delimit ribs (30, 31, 32, 33, 35), at least one of which is provided close to each of its traverse edges with a plurality of incisions of width smaller than 1.5 mm. The incisions open onto the contact surface of the tread, are essentially parallel to one another, and having a mean inclination α different from zero relative to the direction perpendicular to the rolling surface (S) of the tread. The tread is characterized in that, when viewed in a section plane perpendicular to the rotational axis of the tire, each incision in a given rib, relative to a perpendicular to the contact surface of the rib at the point where the incision intersects the surface, has an inclination which varies through the thickness of the tread, each incision being inclined at an angle β1 relative to said perpendicular at its point of intersection with the rolling surface when new, the angle β1 being larger than the angle α, and at an angle β2 at the point of the incision furthest inside the tread, the angle β2 being smaller than the angle α. The point of the incision furthest inside the tread being located, relative to said perpendicular, such that it is ahead of the point of the incision located on the contact surface of the rib.

A vibration isolating device has a reduced dynamic spring constant in the fore-and-aft direction of a vehicle and can reduce effectively indoor noise upon acceleration and running at high speed. The device has a cylindrical main body fitting to be fixed to a vehicle body side, a boss fitting to be coupled to a vibration generator side, a rubber elastomer as a vibration isolator interposed between both, front and rear stopper rubber portions attached to a coupling member secured to an upside of the boss fitting, and a stopper member disposed in front of and in the rear of the stopper rubber portions and to be fixed to a vehicle body side. A small cavity is provided in at least one of the front and rear stopper rubber portions.

The equipment (1) includes: a median front pillar (2a), provided with at least one front wheel (4) at its lower end; a seat (7) located at the upper end of the front median pillar (2a); two pivotable legs (5), pivotally connected, by a front end, to a lower part of the median front pillar (2a), and each including a wheel (6) at a rear end; a slider (18) slidably movable along the front median pillar (2a), and two connecting rods (24) connected to the slider (18), on two opposite sides thereof, and connected to the legs (5); the slider (18) is movable between a lower position, in which the connecting rods (24) bring the legs (5) into the unfolding position and an upper position, in which the connecting rods (24) bring the legs (5) into the folding position; and releasable device (30) for holding the slider (18) in the lower position.