Vehicle seat
AssigneeTs Tech Co., Ltd.
InventorAnthony Yudovich
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Abstract
A vehicle seat includes a seat back supported to a body floor of a vehicle, a seat cushion pivotally supported to the seat back so as to be tipped up relative to the seat back, a leg member pivotally supported to a lower portion of the seat cushion, at least one spring member for biasing the leg member in such a direction as to be away from a bottom surface of the seat cushion, at least one stopper member for stopping the leg member against an action of the spring member and keeping the leg member vertically standing from the bottom surface of the seat cushion, and a mechanism for causing the leg member to be operatively folded and then laid on the bottom surface of the seat cushion against the action of the spring member, synchronously with the tipping-up of the seat cushion relative to the seat back.
Claims20
A vehicle seat comprising:
- a seat back supported to a body floor of a vehicle;
- a seat cushion pivotally supported at both sides thereof to said seat back by means of a pair of supporting shafts so as to be tipped up relative to said seat back;
- leg means pivotally supported to a lower portion of said seat cushion;
- spring means for biasing said leg means in such a direction as to be away from a bottom surface of said seat cushion;
- stopper means for stopping said leg means against an action of said spring means and keeping said leg means vertically standing from said bottom surface of said seat cushion;
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- means for causing said leg means to be operatively folded and then laid on said bottom surface of said seat cushion against the action of said spring means, synchronously with the tipping-up of said seat cushion relative to said seat back;
- said means for causing said leg means to be operatively folded and then laid on said bottom surface of said seat cushion against the action of said spring means, comprising a stationary pulley mounted on one of said supporting shafts and fixed on one of said both sides of said seat cushion, and a traction cable connected between said leg means and said stationary pulley, so that when said seat cushion is tipped up around said supporting shafts, said traction cable is synchronously pulled, whereby the leg means is operatively folded and then laid on said bottom surface of said seat cushion against the action of said spring means.
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A vehicle seat comprising:
- a seat back supported to a body floor of a vehicle;
- a seat cushion pivotally supported to said seat back so as to be tipped up relative to said seat back;
- leg means pivotally supported to a lower portion of said seat cushion;
- spring means for biasing said leg means in such a direction as to be away from a bottom surface of said seat cushion;
- stopper means for stopping said leg means against an action of said spring means and keeping said leg means vertically standing from said bottom surface of said seat cushion;
- means for causing said leg means to be operatively folded and then laid on said bottom surface of said seat cushion against the action of said spring means, synchronously with the tipping-up of said seat cushion relative to said seat back;
- said means for causing said leg means to be operatively folded and then laid on said bottom surface of said seat cushion against the action of said spring means, including a traction cable connected between said leg means and said seat cushion, so that when said seat cushion is tipped up, said traction cable is synchronously pulled, whereby said leg means is operatively folded and then laid on said bottom surface of said seat cushion against the action of said spring means;
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- a compensator for compensating a pull force that is exerted on said traction cable.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.