Vehicle seat
AssigneeToyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHideki Ohtsu, Yuya Ota
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a vehicle seat having a seat pad and a planar seat cover. The seat cover may include a plurality of the skin materials and at least one seam allowance formed by sewing the adjacent skin materials each other. The seam allowance includes end portions of the adjacent skin materials projecting from a back surface of the seat cover. The seat pad may include a plurality of recessed grooves and an intersecting area of the grooves. The skin material may include a high-rigidity portion disposed at the intersecting area and configured to cover at least one of the corners formed at the intersecting area. The high-rigidity portion may include a planer overlapping portion laid over a back surface of the skin material.
Claims14
A vehicle seat, comprising:
- a seat pad having an intersecting area where a plurality of recessed grooves intersect to form a corner in the seat pad;
- a plurality of skin materials attached together at one or more seams so as to form a seat cover configured to cover the seat pad;
- and
- at least one seam allowance projecting from the at least one or more seams to an edge of the skin material and projecting into at least one of the recessed grooves, wherein
- at least one skin material of the plurality of skin materials integrally includes an overlapping portion folded underneath the at least one skin material such that the overlapping portion is positioned between the seat pad and an outer surface of the seat cover at the corner of the seat pad,
- the at least one skin material including the overlapping portion at the corner of the seat pad has a greater rigidity than a portion of the seat cover away from the corner of the seat pad, and
- the overlapping portion overlaps the corner formed by the intersection of the plurality of recessed grooves.
A vehicle seat, comprising:
- a seat cover comprising three panels joined at an intersecting area;
- and
- a seat pad with a plurality of recessed grooves intersecting at an intersection point of the intersecting area of the three panels, wherein
- at least one of the three panels integrally includes an overlapping portion folded underneath the at least one panel such that the overlapping portion is positioned between the seat pad and an outer surface of the seat cover at the intersection area of the seat pad to define a high-rigidity portion of the seat cover,
- the high-rigidity portion of the at least one panel has a greater rigidity than a rigidity of each of the other two panels, and
- the high-rigidity portion overlaps the intersection point of the recessed grooves.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.