Seat for vehicle
AssigneeTs Tech Co., Ltd.
InventorMasato WATANABE
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Abstract
A vehicle seat is provided in which a seat back is constrained from tilting down when a seat cushion is moved to a position in which the seat back cannot be tilted down. The vehicle seat includes a base frame, a seat cushion frame (3) horizontally movable relative to the base frame between a first position and a second position different from the first position, a seat back frame (4) rotatable relative to the seat cushion frame (3), a lock member (5) configured to constrain the seat back frame (4) from tilting rearward, and an unlock mechanism (6) configured to release a lock applied by the lock member (5) when the seat cushion frame (3) is moved from the first position to the second position.
Claims15
A vehicle seat comprising a base frame and a seat frame disposed above the base frame, the seat frame comprising:
- a seat cushion frame slidable relative to the base frame between a first position and a second position different from the first position;
- a seat back frame rotatable relative to the seat cushion frame;
- a lock member configured to constrain the seat back frame from tilting rearward;
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- an unlock mechanism configured to release a lock applied by the lock member, in a manner coordinated with a motion of the seat cushion frame from the first position to the second position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.