US 10,144,312 B2Granted

Vehicle seat

AssigneeToyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsFumitoshi Akaike, Koji Kaneda

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Abstract

A vehicle seat includes: a seating portion configured to support a seated occupant in a seating posture; a shell portion configured to cover the circumference of the seating portion including side portions of the seated occupant from a rear side of the occupant; a first moving device that is configured to move a relative position of the seating portion with respect to a vehicle; and a second moving device that is configured to move a relative position of the shell portion with respect to the seating portion, the second moving device being configured to move at least side portions of the shell portion to a first position at which the side portions of the seated occupant is covered by the shell portion and to a second position at which the side portions of the seated occupant is uncovered by the shell portion.

Claims9

Dependent claims

A vehicle seat comprising:

a seating portion including a seat cushion portion and a seat back portion;
a shell portion configured to cover the seating portion from a back side to two opposite side portions of the seating portion;
and
a moving mechanism that is configured to change a reclining angle, which is an angle of the seat back portion relative to the seat cushion portion, to be in two or more modes including a normal mode and a comfort mode, wherein
the reclining angle of the seat back portion in the normal mode is less than the reclining angle of the seat back portion in the comfort mode, and
the moving mechanism includes:
a first rotatable recliner that changes the reclining angle of the seat back portion of the seating portion relative to the seat cushion portion;
and
a second rotatable recliner that changes an angle of the shell portion relative to the seat back portion and the seat cushion portion by rotating the shell portion to recline rearward in a state where the seat back portion is in the comfort mode.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/280,193Filed 29 Sep 2016
Priority: JP 2015-1960041 Oct 2015
Published: US 2017/0096085 A16 Apr 2017
Granted: 4 Dec 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification13 codes

B60N 2/22
The seat or part thereof being movable, e.g. adjustable: the back-rest being adjustable
B60N 2/0252
With logic circuits: with relations between different adjustments, e.g. height of headrest following longitudinal position of seat
B60N 2/68
Seats specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement or mounting of seats in vehicles: seat frames
B60N 2/7011
Upholstery springs ; Upholstery: of substantially two-dimensional shape, e.g. hammock-like, plastic shells, fabrics