Vehicle seat structure
AssigneeToyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsFumitoshi Akaike, Hiroshi Tsuji
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Abstract
A vehicle seat structure including: a mode switching mechanism including: a rotating mechanism which is configured to switch one seat of two seats between a state where the one seat faces a vehicle front direction and a state where the one seat faces a vehicle rear direction by rotating the one seat; and a slide mechanism which is configured to move another seat of the two seats from a laterally located position where the other seat is located side by side with the one seat to a vertically located position where the other seat is located to face, in the front-rear direction, the one seat facing the vehicle rear direction by obliquely sliding the other seat in a rear direction and in the seat width direction from the laterally located position.
Claims13
A vehicle seat structure comprising:
- a mode switching mechanism which is configured to switch configurations of two seats between a laterally located mode in which occupants seated on the two seats are positioned side by side in a seat width direction and a facing mode in which the occupants seated on the two seats face each other in a front-rear direction,
- wherein the mode switching mechanism includes:
- a rotating mechanism which is configured to switch one seat of the two seats between a state where the one seat faces a vehicle front direction and a state where the one seat faces a vehicle rear direction by rotating the one seat;
- and
- a slide mechanism which is configured to move another seat of the two seats from a laterally located position where the other seat is located side by side with the one seat to a vertically located position where the other seat is located to face, in the front-rear direction, the one seat facing the vehicle rear direction by obliquely sliding the other seat in the vehicle rear direction and in the seat width direction from the laterally located position,
- wherein the slide mechanism is further configured to slide the one seat in the front-rear direction, and
- wherein the one seat is in a rearmost position when the two seats are in the laterally located position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.