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US 4,147,336 AGranted
Seat frame for a vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTakeshi Yamawaki, Hirofumi Kume
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Abstract
A seat frame wherein erect walls constituting the peripheral wall of the seat frame are bent to form columnar reinforcement ribs, and flange portions being the upper end faces of the reinforcement ribs are formed with mounting parts for a spring base, so that even when the peripheral wall of the seat frame is subjected to an intense tensile load inwards, it is prevented from turning inwardly to be deformed or damaged.
Claims11
A seat frame for a vehicle, said seat frame comprising:
- a one-piece integral peripheral wall of metal plate comprising erect wall portions, flange portions extending outwardly from the upper end of said erect wall portions, and erect reinforcement ribs spaced along opposing ones of said wall portions, each of said reinforcement ribs being defined by an inwardly bent section of the corresponding wall portion which defines a hollow substantially rectangular in tranvserse cross-section extending inwardly from the exterior surface of said wall portions, each of said reinforcement ribs being substantially vertically coextensive with the corresponding wall portion and having an upper end face in the same plane as said flange portions and extending inwardly from the corresponding flange portion;
- a spring base for receiving cushioning material enclosing the seat frame;
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- a spring base fitting means for mounting said spring base between two opposing reinforcement ribs on opposing ones of said erect wall portions.
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A seat frame for a vehicle, said seat frame comprising:
- a one-piece integral peripheral wall of metal plate comprising:
- four substantially vertical wall sections defining a rectangular spring base space therebetween;
- a corresponding substantially horizontal flange extending outwardly from each of said wall sections;
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- a plurality of substantially vertical reinforcement ribs defined in each of at least two opposing ones of said wall sections, said reinforcement ribs being spaced along the corresponding wall section, each of said reinforcement ribs being U-shaped in transverse cross-section, being vertically coextensive with the corresponding wall section and comprising:
- a first substantially planar substantially vertical face substantially parallel to and spaced inwardly from the corresponding wall section;
- second and third substantially parallel substantially vertical substantially planar faces directly interconnecting the transverse substantially vertical edges of the first section and the corresponding wall section;
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- a fourth substantially horizontal substantially planar end face substantially coplanar with and extending directly inwardly from the flange on the corresponding wall section, said fourth face being directly connected to the upper end of said first, second and third faces;
- a spring base for receiving cushioning material enclosing the seat frame, said spring base being in said spring base space;
- and
- a spring base fitting means for mounting said spring base between at least two opposing ones of said reinforcement ribs on the respective two opposing ones of said wall sections.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.