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US 5,076,645 AGranted
Armrest for vehicle seat
AssigneeTachi-S Co., Ltd.
InventorMasaaki Yokota
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Abstract
An armrest for a vehicle seat, wherein armrest is rotatable between a use position for supporting an arm of an occupant and non-use position where the armrest body stands upright along the vertical direction of the seat back of the seat, under the force of a return spring, and wherein there is arranged a buffer means for reducing a rotation rate at which the armrest is rotated downwardly to the non-use position. Thus, the armrest body may be rotated at a moderate rate towards the non-use position, thereby avoiding a serious collision of the armrest body against a part of the vehicle.
Claims6
An armrest for a vehicle seat, comprising:
- an armrest body which has a hollow interior therein and which is pivotally attached to a lateral surface of a seat back of said seat, such that said armrest body is displaceable between a non-use position where said armrest body stands generally upright along a vertical direction of said lateral surface of said seat back and a use position where said armrest body extends generally horizontally from said seat back, said armrest body being rotatably supported on a shaft fixed to said seat back, the shaft extending through the hollow interior of the armrest body;
- a spring means provided at a pivot point of said armrest body, said spring means being adapted for urging said armrest body towards one of said non-use and use position, to thereby retain said armrest body there;
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- a damper means provided between the shaft and the armrest body, said damper means providing a counter force against the urging force of the spring means which urges the armrest body towards the use position, thereby rendering moderate or slow displacement of the armrest body to the use position.
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