Vehicle seat
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorShotaro Inoue
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Abstract
A vehicle seat includes: a seat cushion; a seatback that is rotatably connected to a seat rear side of the seat cushion; a headrest that is provided at a seat upper side end portion of the seatback, and that is configured to support a head portion of a vehicle occupant; and a hardness changing section that changes a hardness of a seat front side of the headrest by compressing a pad at an interior of the headrest, in a case in which an angle of inclination of the seatback with respect to the seat cushion is smaller than a predetermined angle, and canceling a compressed state of the pad, in a case in which the angle of inclination is larger than the predetermined angle.
Claims5
A vehicle seat comprising:
- a seat cushion;
- a seatback that is rotatably connected to a seat rear side of the seat cushion;
- a headrest that is provided at a seat upper side end portion of the seatback, and that is configured to support a head portion of a vehicle occupant;
- and
- a hardness changing section that changes a hardness of a seat front side of the headrest by compressing a pad at an interior of the headrest, in a case in which an angle of inclination of the seatback with respect to the seat cushion is smaller than a predetermined angle, and canceling a compressed state of the pad, in a case in which the angle of inclination is larger than the predetermined angle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.