1. An occupant protection system for a vehicle seat, the occupant protection system comprising:
a seat belt for restraining a passenger in the seat;
anchors for the belt on both sides of the seat with one of the anchors comprising a releasably connected buckle and tongue on one side of the seat and a lap anchor on the other side of the seat;
a seat airbag for being arranged to cause a portion of the seat to be lifted upon inflation thereof;
a belt airbag extending along the seat belt to push the passenger toward the seat upon inflation thereof;
a gas generator for supplying inflation gas to the seat and belt airbags and being disposed at the other side of the seat; and
a common mounting member to which both the gas generator and the lap anchor are mounted with the common mounting member being disposed at the other side of the seat,
wherein the gas generator and the airbags include a gas distribution passage therebetween in which a check valve is arranged and operable to substantially keep inflation gas from reverse flow out from one of the airbags, and the check valve has a substantially full flow position with gas from the gas generator substantially freely flowing through the gas distribution passage to the one airbag and a limited flow position with gas from the gas generator being restricted in flow to the one airbag to avoid excessive gas supply thereto.
2. An occupant protection system comprising:
a seat airbag for being arranged inside or under a seat cushion;
a lap belt airbag for being arranged along a lap belt portion of a seat belt;
a gas generator for supplying inflation gas to the airbags; and
variable size flow passages between the gas generator and the airbags to permit flow passage size to be selected for providing control over gas amounts distributed to the airbags,
wherein the variable size flow passages comprise a manifold that receives gas from the gas generator and has gas flow channels to distribute gas to the airbags, and at least one flow restrictor member removably received in one of the manifold gas flow channels with the flow restrictor member having an orifice of a predetermined, fixed size with the orifice varying in size depending on the selected flow restrictor member for allowing selective control of the flow rate of gas to at least one of the airbags.
3. The occupant protection system of claim 2 wherein the variable size flow passages comprise a valve member received in another one of the manifold gas flow channels.
4. The occupant protection system of claim 2 wherein the variable size flow passage for the seat airbag is selected to be larger than the variable size flow passage for the lap belt airbag so that inner pressure of the seat airbag is greater than that of the lap belt airbag.
5. An occupant protection system comprising:
a seat airbag for being arranged inside or under a seat cushion;
a lap belt airbag for being arranged along a lap belt portion of a seat belt;
a gas generator for supplying inflation gas to the airbags; and
variable size flow passages between the gas generator and the airbags to permit flow passage size to be selected for providing control over gas amounts distributed to the airbags,
wherein the variable size flow passages comprise a manifold that receives gas from the gas generator and has gas flow channels to distribute gas to the airbags, and at least one flow restrictor member received in one of the manifold gas flow channels that has an orifice that varies in size depending on the selected flow restrictor member, and the at least one flow restrictor member comprises two flow restrictor members for being received in the gas flow channels of the manifold.
6. The occupant protection system of claim 5 wherein the variable size flow passages further comprise coupling pipes connected to the manifold via the restrictor members.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A polymer electrolyte material comprising at least a first repeating unit containing a Si\u2014O bond which forms a main backbone and a second repeating unit containing an aromatic ring and a proton-conducting group, wherein the second repeating unit is at least one kind of repeating unit containing an aromatic ring which forms the main backbone.
2. The polymer electrolyte material according to claim 1, wherein the first repeating unit is at least one kind of repeating unit containing a siloxane structure represented by the following Formula (1):
wherein, R1 and R2 are respectively one selected from the group consisting of an aliphatic group and an aromatic group.
3. (canceled)
4. The polymer electrolyte material according to claim 1, wherein the second repeating unit is at least one kind of repeating unit having a structure in which the proton-conducting group is bound to the aromatic group which forms the main backbone directly or indirectly through a linking group.
5. The polymer electrolyte material according to claim 1 further comprising at least one kind of third repeating unit containing a structure represented by the following Formula (3) which forms the main backbone:
\u2014Ar1\u2014W\u2014Ar2\u2014\u2003\u2003Formula 3
wherein, each of Ar1 and Ar2 is an aromatic ring; and W is at least one selected from \u2014O\u2014, \u2014S\u2014, \u2014CO\u2014, \u2014SO\u2014, a single bond, \u2014C(CH3)2\u2014 and \u2014C(CF3)2\u2014.
6. A membrane electrode assembly for fuel cell comprising a polymer electrolyte membrane andor a catalyst layer containing the polymer electrolyte material defined by claim 1.
7. The membrane electrode assembly for fuel cell according to claim 6 comprising the catalyst layer containing the polymer electrolyte material and a hydrocarbon polymer electrolyte membrane.