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US 9,428,091 B2Granted
Vehicle seat
AssigneeToyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKeiji Kozaki, Hideo Sahashi
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Abstract
A seat pad is configured to be capable of, with an increased pressing from a top plate portion at a seating side, gradually shortening a distance between an outer side of a frame body portion and a separated part, and at the same time deflecting and deforming in a direction of immersing into a seat frame, and by a pressing from an edge portion at the seating side, an abutting part abuts against a supporting portion, so as to be supported on the seat frame.
Claims4
A vehicle seat, comprising:
- a seat frame that constitutes a seat skeleton;
- and
- a seat pad that constitutes a contour of the seat and is configured to elastically support an occupant, wherein
- the seat frame is provided with a supporting portion that is configured to be brought into face contact with a back face of the seat pad, and a frame body portion that is connected to the supporting portion and extends in a direction separated from a seating side,
- the seat pad is provided with a top plate portion on which the occupant is to be seated, and an edge portion that is arranged at a position closer to an outer side of the seat than the top plate portion and protrudes toward the seating side,
- the seat pad is configured to be relatively movable on the seat frame,
- the top plate portion is arranged at a position closer to an inner side of the seat than the supporting portion,
- the edge portion covers the supporting portion and the frame body portion,
- on a back face of the edge portion, the seat pad has an abutting part that is configured to face the supporting portion, and a separated part that is configured to face the frame body portion at an outer side thereof and arranged continuously with the abutting part,
- in a state where the seat pad is configured, the separated part is configured to be separated from the seat frame more than the abutting part,
- when a pressing force from the top plate portion at the seating side is increased, the seat pad gradually shortens a distance between the outer side of the frame body portion and the separated part, and at the same time deflects and deforms in a direction of immersing into the seat frame, and
- when the edge portion is pressed from the seating side, the abutting part abuts against the supporting portion so that the seat pad is supported on the seat frame.
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