Vehicle seat
AssigneeTachi-S Engineering U.S.A., Inc.
InventorsYasuo Kakishima, Anand Abraham
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Abstract
A vehicle seat includes: (a) a seat structure having a seat cushion frame including a first seat side member and a second seat side member, and a seat back frame; (b) a seat slide mechanism that is capable of moving the seat structure; (c) a first upper riser that is fixed to the seat slide mechanism and supports the first seat side member; (d) a second upper riser that is fixed to the seat slide mechanism and supports the second seat side member; (e) a first locking mechanism that locks and unlocks the first seat side member to and from the seat slide mechanism; and (f) a second locking mechanism that locks the second seat side member to the seat slide mechanism when an excessive load is input.
Claims9
A vehicle seat comprising:
- a seat structure having a seat cushion frame including a first seat side member and a second seat side member, and a seat back frame;
- a seat slide mechanism that movably locks the seat structure;
- a first upper riser that is fixed to the seat slide mechanism and supports the first seat side member;
- a second upper riser that is fixed to the seat slide mechanism and supports the second seat side member;
- a first locking mechanism that locks and unlocks the first seat side member to and from the seat slide mechanism;
- a second locking mechanism that locks the second seat side member to the seat slide mechanism when an excessive load is input
- a first hinge mechanism that allows the first seat side member to rotate with respect to the first upper riser;
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- a second hinge mechanism that allows the second seat side member to rotate with respect to the second upper riser;
- wherein the second hinge mechanism includes a rotating hinge pin and a bush, and
- a part of the bush is destroyed and the second seat member is movable when the excessive load is input;
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- wherein the bush has a first hole into which the rotating hinge pin is inserted in an initial state and a second hole that is located in front of the first hole, and
- partition walls of the first hole and the second hole are destroyed when the excessive load is inputted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.