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US 11,173,813 B2Granted
Vehicle seat
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMakoto Sekizuka
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Abstract
A vehicle seat is provided with a wire that, in the event of a vehicle frontal collision, enables a pulling load applied by a vehicle occupant to a webbing to be transmitted between a cushion frame of a seat cushion and a movable rail of a sliding device. One end portion of the wire is anchored to a first anchoring member of the movable rail, while another end portion of the wire is anchored to a second anchoring member of the cushion frame.
Claims5
A vehicle seat, comprising:
- a seat main body configured to seat a vehicle occupant;
- a buckle that is joined to the seat main body, and that is configured to hold a tongue provided at a webbing of a seatbelt device, thereby effecting a state in which the webbing is fitted relative to a body of the vehicle occupant;
- a base member that is provided at a vehicle lower side of the seat main body, and that is joined to a vehicle body of a vehicle so as to be movable in a vehicle front-rear direction relative to the vehicle body;
- a lifting device that lifts the seat main body relative to the base member by pivoting the seat main body toward a vehicle front-upper side of the vehicle relative to the base member;
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- a load transmitting member that is flexible, that is joined to both the base member and the seat main body, and that becomes tensioned in a straight line toward the vehicle front-upper side when the seat main body is placed in a lifted state by the lifting device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.