US 10,245,986 B2Granted

Vehicle seat

AssigneeToyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsFumitoshi Akaike, Koji Kaneda

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Abstract

A vehicle seat including: a seat back including a top plate main part configured to support a body of a seated person from the rear side and a top plate side part configured to protrude more forward than the top plate main part to support the body of the seated person from the lateral side; a side adjuster configured to move the top plate side part between a protruding position in which the top plate side part protrudes more forward than the top plate main part and a retracted position in which the top plate side part is retracted from the protruding position; and a controller configured to, in a case where a side collision of a vehicle is detected, drive and control the side adjuster so that the top plate side part is in the protruding position.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A vehicle seat comprising:

a seat back including:
a top plate main part having a front-facing seating surface;
and
a top plate side part configured to protrude more forward than the top plate main part from an outer side of the top plate main part;
a side adjuster configured to move the top plate side part between a protruding position in which the top plate side part protrudes more forward than the top plate main part and a retracted position in which the top plate side part is retracted from the protruding position;
and
a controller configured to, in a case where a side collision of a vehicle is detected, drive and control the side adjuster so that the top plate side part is in the protruding position,
wherein the top plate side part has a shape including a curved concave surface which protrudes in a shape curved toward the front side so as to wrap the top plate main part from a backside of the top plate main part to both sides of the outer side of the top plate main part in a recessed shape.

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Facts

Application: 15/484,460Filed 11 Apr 2017
Priority: JP 2016-08193815 Apr 2016
Published: US 2017/0297460 A119 Oct 2017
Granted: 2 Apr 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

B60N 2/42745
Involving substantially rigid displacement: of the back-rest
B60N 2/02246
Non-manual adjustments, e.g. with electrical operation: electric motors therefor
B60N 2/0276
With logic circuits: reaction to emergency situations, e.g. crash
B60N 2/22
The seat or part thereof being movable, e.g. adjustable: the back-rest being adjustable

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