Vehicle seat operating device
AssigneesToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTakaya Tsukigase, Hiroyuki Mita, Toyotaka Watanabe
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Abstract
A vehicle seat operating device has a reclining lever, a lifting lever and a getting in/out support lever for rotating a vehicle seat in a horizontal plane. A reclining lever operation surface and a lifting lever underside operation surface are accessible from a side of the seat. The getting in/out support lever has a recess section which is formed toward the front, and an operation surface which is a ceiling surface of the recess is accessible from the front. Side access to the operation surface is blocked by an out sidewall located on a seat width direction outer side of the operation surface. The getting in/out support lever is easily distinguished from the other two levers because accessible directions are different.
Claims6
A vehicle seat operating device for operating movable parts of a vehicle seat, comprising:
- a device body provided on a side portion of the vehicle seat;
- a first operating lever pivotably provided on the device body to move its front end vertically and provided with a first lever operation surface facing downward to be accessible from a side of the vehicle seat;
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- a second operating lever pivotably provided on the device body to move its front end vertically and provided with a second lever operation surface facing downward to be accessible from the front end, the second lever operation surface being blocked by an adjacent blocking wall from being accessed from a side of the vehicle seat, the blocking wall provided on a side of the second operating lever opposite a side of the device body to which the second operating lever is pivotally provided, the second lever operation surface being blocked from a side opposite the second lever operation surface by a bottom surface extending in a front-back direction of the vehicle seat and opposite the second lever operation surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.