Vehicle seat
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorOsamu Fukawatase
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Abstract
A vehicle seat that can effectively restrain a passenger from moving outward in a vehicle width direction in the event of a collision of a vehicle is obtained. The vehicle seat disclosed is equipped with a pop-up bar that is supported displaceably upward, an MGG that is operated to displace the pop-up bar upward, a tension cloth that is connected on an upper end side thereof to the pop-up bar and on a lower end side thereof to a front end side of a seat cushion, and a lateral collision ECU that operates the MGG in a case where a lateral collision of the vehicle is detected or predicted. The tension cloth is deployed such that a tensile force is applied between a connection portion thereof to the pop-up bar and a connection portion thereof to the seat cushion as the pop-up bar is displaced to a popped-up position.
Claims19
A vehicle seat comprising:
- a movable support body that displaces upwardly to a popped-up position with respect to a seat back, the popped-up position being a position such that the movable support body is spaced apart from the seat back;
- an actuator that is configured to shift the movable support body upward with respect to the seat back;
- a lateral deployment member that is:
- (1) connected to the movable support body at an upper end side of the lateral deployment member and connected to a front end side of a seat cushion at a lower end side of the lateral deployment member, (2) accommodated from a lateral portion of the seat cushion to a lateral portion of the seat back, and (3) deployed such that a tensile force is applied between a first connection portion of the lateral deployment member to the movable support body and a second connection portion of the lateral deployment member to the seat cushion when the movable support body is displaced upwardly with respect to the seat back;
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- a control device that operates the actuator in a case where a collision of the vehicle is detected or predicted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.