Electric vehicle seat stowing structure
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorTetsuya Kayumi
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Abstract
An electric vehicle seat stowing structure having a swing drive mechanism for swinging a seat cushion between a seating position and a stowing position, the swing drive mechanism provided on a floor of a vehicle in the vicinity of a wheel house including a group of reduction gears disposed in a gear case or in a bracket and an actuator for driving the group of reduction gears placed vertically on a side of the gear case or the bracket and a striker for locking the seat cushion to the seating position.
Claims13
An electric vehicle seat stowing structure, comprising:
- a swing drive mechanism for swinging a seat cushion between a seating position and a stowing position, the swing drive mechanism provided on a floor of a vehicle in the vicinity of a wheel house including
- a group of reduction gears disposed in a gear case or in a bracket;
- and
- an actuator for driving the group of reduction gears placed vertically on a side of the gear case or the bracket;
- and
- a striker for locking the seat cushion in the seating position.
An assembling method of an electric vehicle seat stowing structure, comprising steps of:
- mounting a cross member on a floor of a vehicle;
- mounting a first support shaft on the floor, and disposing a first mounting plate provided on the first support shaft so as to be inclined at a predetermined angle;
- mounting a second support shaft on the floor via a swing drive mechanism, and disposing a second mounting plate provided on the second support shaft so as to be inclined at the predetermined angle;
- mounting first and second strikers, respectively, at positions being spaced apart at a predetermined distance relative to the first and second support shafts;
- inclining the seat cushion according to inclination angles of the respective first and second mounting plates;
- engaging first and second locking brackets of the seat cushion with the first and second mounting plate, respectively;
- swinging the seat cushion to a floor recessed stowing portion;
- and
- mounting the first and second mounting plates on a bottom portion of the seat cushion
- wherein the swing drive mechanism includes
- a group of reduction gears disposed in a gear case or in a bracket;
- and
- an actuator for driving the group of reduction gears placed vertically on
- a side of the gear case or the bracket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.