Vehicle seat
AssigneeAutech Japan, Inc.
InventorsOsamu FUKUI, Keisuke HAYAMA
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Abstract
A vehicle seat is adapted to be disposed adjacent to an entrance/exit opening of a vehicle, the vehicle seat includes a seat main body and a tilting mechanism. The seat main body includes a sitting surface. The tilting mechanism is configured and arranged to selectively tilt the sitting surface about a rotational axis with the rotational axis being arranged diagonally with respect to a front-rear direction of the vehicle seat such that a lateral frontward portion of the sitting surface to be located closer to the entrance/exit opening of the vehicle is lowered when the sitting surface is tilted.
Claims7
A vehicle seat adapted to be disposed adjacent to an entrance/exit opening of a vehicle, the vehicle seat comprising:
- a seat main body including a sitting surface;
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- a tilting mechanism configured and arranged to selectively tilt the sitting surface about a rotational axis with the rotational axis being arranged diagonally with respect to a front-rear direction of the vehicle seat such that a lateral frontward portion of the sitting surface to be located closer to the entrance/exit opening of the vehicle is lowered when the sitting surface is tilted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.