Vehicle seat and method of manufacturing vehicle seat
AssigneeTachi-S Co., Ltd.
InventorsAtsushi Ishii, Shinichi Mizuno
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Abstract
A comfortable, well-designed vehicle seat (1) is provided by giving an outstanding, three-dimensional appearance to the surface layer of the vehicle seat so that a new design is achieved and that softness is improved. The vehicle seat has a seat cushion (2) serving as the sitting surface of the seat, a seatback (3) serving as the backrest of the seat, and a headrest (4) protecting the head and neck of an occupant. The surface of at least one of the seat cushion and the seatback is provided with a cover formed of a cloth including an upholstery material (6), a cushion material (8), and a heat-shrinkable material (9). The cover is stitched so that a plurality of bumps and dips are formed on the surface thereof.
Claims4
A vehicle seat comprising:
- a seat cushion serving as a sitting surface of the seat;
- a seatback serving as a backrest of the seat;
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- a headrest disposed to protect an occupant's head and neck,
- wherein a surface of at least one of the seat cushion and the seatback is provided with a cover formed of a cloth including an upholstery material, a cushion material, and a rubber material, a surface of the upholstery material having a plurality of bumps and dips, and
- wherein the bumps and dips are formed by stitching the cover with the rubber material being in a mechanically extended state, and thereafter releasing the extension of the rubber material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.