Vehicle seat
AssigneeToyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYuki Kawabata, Yoshihiro Murase
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Abstract
There is provided a vehicle seat that allows detection of forgetting to mount a bracket for centering in a recliner with a limited space along a seat-width direction. One aspect of the present disclosure is a vehicle seat including a recliner mounted to a back frame. The recliner includes a recliner plate, a recliner main body configured to pivot the back frame relative to the recliner plate, a bracket fixed to the recliner plate, and a hinge pin penetrating the recliner main body, the recliner plate, and the bracket. The recliner plate includes a confirmation hole not overlapping the recliner main body. The bracket includes a body portion having a first through hole, and a detection target portion extending from the body portion to the confirmation hole and overlapping the confirmation hole.
Claims2
A vehicle seat comprising:
- a seat cushion;
- a seatback pivotable in seat front-rear directions relative to the seat cushion;
- a back frame supporting the seatback;
- and
- a recliner mounted to the back frame,
- the recliner comprising:
- a recliner plate;
- a recliner main body coupled to a first surface of the recliner plate and to the back frame, and configured to pivot the back frame in the seat front-rear directions relative to the recliner plate;
- a bracket fixed to a second surface of the recliner plate located opposite to the first surface;
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- a hinge pin penetrating the recliner main body, the recliner plate, and the bracket in a seat-width direction,
- the recliner plate comprising:
- a confirmation hole provided at a position not overlapping the recliner main body in an axial direction of the hinge pin;
- and
- a positioning hole provided at a position not overlapping the recliner main body in the axial direction of the hinge pin, and
- the bracket comprising:
- a planar body portion comprising a first through hole to define a position of a central axis of the hinge pin;
- a detection target portion extending from the body portion to the confirmation hole and overlapping the confirmation hole;
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- a positioner extending from the body portion to the positioning hole and comprising a second through hole overlapping the positioning hole.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.