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US 4,784,437 AGranted
Automotive seat
AssigneeTachi-S Co., Ltd.
InventorMakoto Shimada
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Abstract
An automobile seat comprising a main foam pad and a sub-pad made of a softer foam material relative to the foam cushion body, the sub-pad being mounted on the main foam pad. In this seat, a covering member is provided over those pads such that the section of the covering member which covers the sub-pad is fixed in a dotted manner to the section thereof which covers the main foam pad. With this arrangement, a plurality of decorative creases are created in the lateral side portions of the covering member section which covers the lateral surfaces of the sub-pad.
Claims11
An automotive seat comprising:
- a main foam pad;
- a sub-pad fixed on said main foam pad;
- a cut-away recess at substantially U-shaped configuration formed along a boundary defined between said main foam pad and sub-pad;
- a covering member which covers both of said main foam pad and sub-pad with such an arrangement that said covering member is partly inserted into said cut-away recess, thereby defining a first covering member section which covers said sub-pad and a second covering member section which covers said main foam pad, wherein, at said cut-away recess, there are defined first and second inwardly turned portions, respectively, in said first and second covering member sections, each of said first and second inwardly turned portions extending into said cut-away recess;
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- said first inwardly portion being bonded by adhesive at multiple, spaced apart points to said second inwardly portion, whereby a plurality of decorative creases are created in lateral side portions of said first covering member section.
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An automotive seat comprising:
- a main foam pad;
- a sub-pad fixed on said main foam pad;
- a cut-away recess at substantially U-shaped configuration formed along a boundary defined between said main foam pad and sub-pad;
- a covering member which covers both of said main foam pad an sub-pad with such an arrangement that said covering member is partly inserted into said cut-away recess, thereby defining a first covering member section which covers said sub-pad and a second covering member section which covers said main foam pad, wherein, at said cut-away recess, there are defined first and second inwardly turned portions, respectively, in said first and second covering member sections, each of said first and second inwardly turned portions extending into said cut-away recess;
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- said first inwardly portion being partly bonded by adhesive at multiple, spaced apart points to a portion of said cut-away recess disposed at said sub-pad, whereby a plurality of decorative creases are created in lateral side portions of said first covering member section.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.