Vehicle seat
AssigneeToyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHideki OHTSU, Yuya OTA
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a vehicle seat having a seat pad and a planar seat cover. The seat cover may include a plurality of the skin materials and at least one seam allowance formed by sewing the adjacent skin materials each other. The seam allowance includes end portions of the adjacent skin materials projecting from a back surface of the seat cover. The seat pad may include a plurality of recessed grooves and an intersecting area of the grooves. The skin material may include a high-rigidity portion disposed at the intersecting area and configured to cover at least one of the corners formed at the intersecting area. The high-rigidity portion may include a planer overlapping portion laid over a back surface of the skin material.
Claims20
A vehicle seat, comprising:
- a seat pad having an intersecting area where a plurality of recess groves interest to form a corner in the seat pad;
- a plurality of skin materials attached together at one or more seam so as to form a seat cover configured to cover the seat pad;
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- at least one seam allowance projecting from the seam to an edge of the skin material and projecting into at least one of the recess grooves,
- wherein a portion of the seat cover covering a portion of the corner has a greater rigidity than a portion of the seat cover away from the corner.
A vehicle seat, comprising:
- a seat cover comprising three panels joined at an intersecting area;
- at least one of the three panels includes a high-rigidity portion positioned in at least a part of the intersecting area,
- wherein the high-rigidity portion has a greater rigidity than a portion of each of the other two panels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.