Seat and assembling method therefor
AssigneeTs Tech Co., Ltd.
InventorsKazuya Aoki, Kenta Kikuchi, Kei Okuma
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Abstract
A vehicle seat includes a pad having an air passage, a skin material, and a skin locking clip embedded in the pad and configured to tuck in a prescribed linear portion of the skin material. The pad includes a main body member in which the skin locking clip is embedded, an intermediate layer member arranged on the main body member, and a surface layer member arranged on the intermediate layer member. The main body member includes a linear bulging portion extending along the linear portion and bulging so as to define a plane substantially identical to a surface of the surface layer member, and the skin material is tucked in by the skin locking clip at a portion extending further from the surface layer member than the linear bulging portion.
Claims20
A seat, comprising:
- a pad having a groove which opens on a surface side, has a width and a depth, and extends in a prescribed direction;
- a skin material covering the surface side of the pad in a thickness direction thereof;
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- a skin locking clip embedded in the pad and configured to tuck in a prescribed linear portion of the skin material,
- wherein the groove has a pair of opposing side surfaces, each of the side surfaces of the groove near a bottom thereof has an inclined surface directed to an inside in the width direction toward the bottom so as to be connected to a surface of the skin locking clip,
- wherein the inclined surfaces have a first length in a cross section perpendicular to the prescribed direction, each side surface of the groove has a portion located closer to the surface side than the inclined surface, the portion has a second length extending in a direction of the depth, and the first length is shorter than the second length.
An assembling method for a seat including a pad having a groove which opens on a surface side, has a width and a depth, and extends in a prescribed direction, a skin material covering a surface side of the pad in a thickness direction thereof, and a skin locking clip embedded in the pad and configured to tuck in a prescribed linear portion of the skin material, the assembling method being used for assembling the pad, the skin material, and the skin locking clip and comprising:
- forming the pad in which the skin locking clip is embedded;
- arranging the pad at a prescribed position;
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- causing the skin locking clip to lock the linear portion of the skin material,
- wherein the groove has a pair of opposing side surfaces, each of the side surfaces of the groove near a bottom thereof has an inclined surface directed to an inside in the width direction toward the bottom so as to be connected to a surface of the skin locking clip,
- wherein the causing comprises making the inclined surface guide the linear portion,
- wherein the inclined surfaces have a first length in a cross section perpendicular to the prescribed direction, each side surface of the groove has a portion located closer to the surface side than the inclined surface, the portion has a second length extending in a direction of the depth, and the first length is shorter than the second length.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.