Vehicle seat

A vehicle seat comprising:

• a seat back;
• a seat cushion;
• and
• a sliding apparatus provided underneath the seat cushion, wherein the sliding apparatus has a lower rail and an upper rail that slidably attaches to the lower rail, the seat cushion has a frame body that includes a pipe member and a bracket defined by a metal plate member, the bracket being rotatably connected to the seat back,
• the pipe member has-including:
• a main body portion that extends along an end edge of the seat cushion;
• a leg portion that is aligned with the main body portion along a single plane in a seat forward-rearward direction and that curves downward toward the upper rail from an end portion of the main body portion;
• and
• a mounting portion that extends from a lower end portion of the leg portion, the mounting portion being a flattened portion of the pipe member integrated with the leg portion that defines a front terminal end of the pipe member, a lowermost side of the mounting portion has a planar flat surface that abuts against an uppermost side of the upper rail and is mounted to a front end of the upper rail by a bolt that extends through the upper rail and the mounting portion from underneath the upper rail and by nut that screw onto the bolt,
• the uppermost side of the upper rail that abuts the lowermost side of the mounting portion is defined by a planar flat surface,
• a lower part of the bracket is attached to the upper rail,
• a width of the lower part of the bracket is greater than a width of an upper part of the bracket,
• the bracket includes an elongate hole extending in the seat forward-rearward direction, and
• a rear end of the pipe member extends along the elongate hole of the bracket and is welded to a surround of the elongate hole such that the rear end of the pipe member is mounted on the bracket.

A vehicle seat comprising:

• a seat back;
• a seat cushion;
• and
• a sliding apparatus provided underneath the seat cushion, wherein the sliding apparatus has a lower rail and an upper rail that slidably attaches to the lower rail,
• the seat cushion has a frame body that includes a pipe member and a bracket defined by a metal plate member, the bracket being rotatably connected to the seat back,
• the pipe member including:
• a main body portion that extends along an end edge of the seat cushion;
• a leg portion that is aligned with the main body portion along a single plane in a seat forward-rearward direction and that curves downward toward the upper rail from an end portion of the main body portion;
• and
• a mounting portion that extends from a lower end portion of the leg portion, the mounting portion being a flattened portion of the pipe member integrated with the leg portion that defines a front terminal end of the pipe member, a lowermost side of the mounting portion has a planar flat surface that abuts against an uppermost side of the upper rail, and is mounted to a front end of the upper rail,
• the uppermost side of the upper rail that abuts the lowermost side of the mounting portion is defined by a planar flat surface,
• the leg portion defines a continuous arc shape, from the end of the main body portion to the mounting portion, that extends beyond a terminal end of the upper rail in the seat forward-rearward direction,
• a lower part of the bracket is attached to the upper rail,
• a width of the lower part of the bracket is greater than a width of an upper part of the bracket,
• the bracket includes an elongate hole extending in the seat forward-rearward direction, and
• a rear end of the pipe member extends along the elongate hole of the bracket and is welded to a surround of the elongate hole such that the rear end of the pipe member is mounted on the bracket.