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US 10,479,248 B2Granted
Vehicle seat
AssigneeToyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHideyuki Izukawa
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Abstract
A vehicle seat including: a surface cover covering a surface of the vehicle seat; a pad; a shape change unit including an air bag configured to expand and contract and configured to change a shape of the surface of the vehicle seat; and a buffer member provided between the air bag and the surface cover, wherein the buffer member is configured to be deformed elastically by expansion and contraction of the air bag.
Claims8
A vehicle seat comprising:
- a surface cover covering a surface of the vehicle seat;
- a pad;
- a shape change unit including an air bag configured to expand and contract and configured to change a shape of the surface of the vehicle seat;
- and
- a buffer member provided between the air bag and the surface cover,
- wherein the buffer member is configured to be deformed elastically in an expansion/contraction direction of the air bag by expansion and contraction of the air bag, such that a thickness portion of the buffer member is reduced, and
- wherein the buffer member includes a fixed portion fixed to a portion of the shape change unit except for the air bag.
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A vehicle seat comprising:
- a surface cover covering a surface of the vehicle seat;
- a pad;
- a shape change unit including an air bag configured to expand and contract and configured to change a shape of the surface of the vehicle seat;
- and
- a buffer member provided between the air bag and the surface cover,
- wherein the buffer member is configured to be deformed elastically in an expansion/contraction direction of the air bag by expansion and contraction of the air bag, such that a thickness portion of the buffer member is reduced,
- wherein the buffer member includes a fixed portion fixed to at least one of an outer-peripheral edge of the pad and a portion of the shape change unit except for the air bag, and
- wherein the buffer member is not fixed to a portion except for the outer-peripheral edge of the pad.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.