Vehicle seat
AssigneeToyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKoji Kimura
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Abstract
A vehicle seat including a panel frame including a fixed area which is one area of the panel frame partitioned by a line segment connecting a first fixed point and a second fixed point and includes a third fixed point at which the panel frame is fixed to a vehicle main body at a position different from positions of the first and second fixed point, an overhang area which is another area of the panel frame partitioned by the line segment; and a bead including a first and second bead pieces which respectively extend across the overhang area and the fixed area, and one of the first and second bead pieces has an extended portion which extends into an orthogonal area which is an area orthogonal to a portion of the line segment running between the first and second bead pieces.
Claims6
A vehicle seat comprising:
- a panel frame forming a framework of a seat back, the panel frame including:
- a first fixed point at which the panel frame is fixed to a vehicle main body at a first position in a height direction, and a second fixed point at which the panel frame is fixed to the vehicle main body at a second position in the height direction, the second position being different from the first position in the height direction;
- a fixed area which is one area of the panel frame partitioned by a line segment extending through the first fixed point and the second fixed point and includes a third fixed point at which the panel frame is fixed to the vehicle main body at a position different from positions of the first fixed point and the second fixed point;
- an overhang area which is another area of the panel frame partitioned by the line segment and extends in a cantilevered manner without being fixed to the vehicle main body;
- a load input point which is in the overhang area and to which a load in an out-of-plane direction is configured to be applied;
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- a bead having a drawn shape for enhancing surface rigidity of the panel frame,
- wherein the bead includes a first bead piece and a second bead piece which respectively extend across the overhang area and the fixed area, and one of the first bead piece and the second bead piece has an extended portion which extends into an orthogonal area which is an area orthogonal to a portion of the line segment running between the first bead piece and the second bead piece.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.