US 11,027,631 B2Granted

Vehicle seat

AssigneeTs Tech Co., Ltd.

InventorsYuichiro Hoshi, Kazuki Kobayashi

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Abstract

A vehicle seat includes a seat frame including a pan frame (12), a blower, and a bracket (50) configured to attach the blower to the pan frame (12). The bracket (50) is provided with a first engagement portion (110) protruding toward the pan frame (12), and the pan frame (12) is provided with a first engagement hole (12A) in which the first engagement portion (110) is engageable. The first engagement portion (110) includes a first stopper portion (112) configured to be locked to the pan frame (12) when the first engagement portion (110) is engaged in the first engagement hole (12A), and a first elastically deformable portion (113) configured to deform elastically to allow the first stopper portion (112) to pass through the first engagement hole (12A) when the first engagement portion (110) is inserted into the first engagement hole (12A).

Claims20

Dependent claims

A vehicle seat comprising:

a seat frame including a plate portion;
a blower having an inlet opening;
and
a bracket configured to attach the blower to the plate portion,
wherein one of the bracket and the plate portion is provided with a first engagement portion protruding toward the other one of the bracket or the plate portion,
wherein a first engagement hole in which the first engagement portion is engageable is provided at the other one of the bracket or the plate portion,
wherein the bracket comprises:
a base wall having a first through opening and two or more second through openings, the first through opening being formed in a position corresponding to the inlet opening of the blower, the second through openings being formed around the first through opening, and
wherein the first engagement portion is provided at a rear side of the first through opening, and at least one of the second through openings is located at a front side of the first through opening.

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Facts

Application: 16/323,409Filed 31 Jul 2017
Priority: JP JP2016-1543315 Aug 2016
Published: US 2019/0176663 A113 Jun 2019
Granted: 8 Jun 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification20 codes

B60N 2/5657
By air: blown towards the seat surface
A47C 7/74
Adaptations for incorporating lamps, radio sets, bars, telephones, ventilation, heating or cooling arrangements or the like: for ventilation,…
B60N 2/56
Seats specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement or mounting of seats in vehicles: heating or ventilating devices
B60N 2/5621
Characterised by convection: by air

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US 2019/0176663 A1Pre-grant publication · published 13 Jun 2019
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