Automobile
AssigneesKanto Auto Works, Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsJun Kanamori, Osamu Fujimoto
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Abstract
In an automobile having a seat cushion supporting the hip, and a seat back supporting the back, of a seated person wherein the seat back in its use position with the seat cushion folded thereon is lifted up to its non-use position in an upper part of the cabin, the seat back when moved from the use position to the non-use position is prevented from interfering with a seat disposed in its front. There is a guide means for guiding the seat back 12 so that it moves rearwards gradually when it is moved from the use position to the non-use position.
Claims20
An automobile equipped with a seat member that is disposed in a cabin movably between its use position adapted to support a seated person and its non-use position in an upper part of the cabin, characterized in that it comprises:
- a seat arm supported to be rotatable about a center of turning on a car body and coupled to the seat member so that the seat member is movable towards and away from the center of turning with a variable distance between the seat member and the center of turning as a seat distance;
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- a guide means for guiding the seat member so as to gradually decrease the seat distance as the seat member moves from the use position to the non-use position and to gradually increase the seat distance as the seat member moves from the non-use position to the use position.
An automobile having a seat member retractable from its use position adapted to support a seated person for storing in its non-use position in an upper part of a cabin, comprising:
- a seat arm to be rotatable attached to a car body;
- a seat back supported from the seat arm so as to be movable, and variable in position, relative to the seat arm, the seat back constituting the seat member;
- a pin securely mounted on a lower end of the seat back;
- a guide means for guiding movement of the pin on the seat back as the seat arm is turned.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.