Vehicle seat

• US 10,081,285 B2
• Filed: 01/27/2017
• Issued: 09/25/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Kaneda, Koji, Akaike, Fumitoshi, Yano, Komei
• Primary Examiner(s): Chen, Jose V
• Application Number:
  US15/417,802
• Publication Number:
  US 20170217341A1
• Time in Patent Office: 606 Days
• Field of Search: 2972849, 2972843
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/20 the back-rest being tiltable, e.g. to permit easy access B60N2/04, B60N2/22 , B60N2/3002 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/2222 the back-rest having two or more parts
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/643 shape of the back-rests B60N2/66 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/66 Lumbar supports
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/99 adjustable

Abstract

A vehicle seat includes a main part that forms a center portion of a front surface of a seatback; bolster parts that form side parts of the front surface of the seatback; and a reclining adjuster configured to adjust a backrest angle of the seatback, and to move a lower area of the main part toward a front side relative to the bolster parts as the main part is reclined.

Claims

1. A vehicle seat comprising:

a main part that forms a center portion of a front surface of a seatback;

bolster parts that form side parts of the front surface of the seatback; and

a reclining adjuster rotatably connected to the main part and the bolster parts, and configured to adjust a backrest angle of the seatback, and to move a lower area of the main part toward a front side of the vehicle seat relative to the bolster parts as the main part is reclined.

2. The vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein

the reclining adjuster includes a main reclining mechanism and a side reclining mechanism that are configured to respectively operate the main part and the bolster parts independently of each other.

3. The vehicle seat according to claim 2, wherein

the main reclining mechanism is rotatably connected to the main part and configured to adjust a backrest angle of the main part, and the side reclining mechanism is rotatably connected to the bolster parts and configured to adjust a backrest angle of the bolster parts.

4. The vehicle seat according to claim 3, wherein

the main reclining mechanism and the side reclining mechanism each include a rotation center about which the main part and the bolster parts rotate, respectively, so as to change the backrest angles of the main part and the bolster parts, and

the rotation center of the main reclining mechanism is set at a position closer to a hip point of a seated occupant to be seated on the vehicle seat than a position of the rotation center of the side reclining mechanism.

5. The vehicle seat according to claim 4, wherein

the rotation center of the main reclining mechanism and the rotation center of the side reclining mechanism are set at positions such that a distance between the main part and the bolster parts increases as a reclining angle of each of the main part and the bolster parts increases.

6. The vehicle seat according to claim 4, wherein

the positions of the rotation center of the main reclining mechanism and the rotation center of the side reclining mechanism are set such that positions of the bolster parts relative to the main part in a rotation radius direction are moved up as a reclining angle of each of the main part and the bolster parts increases.

7. The vehicle seat according to claim 4, wherein

the position of the rotation center of the main reclining mechanism is lower than and behind the hip point of the seated occupant to be seated on the vehicle seat, and the position of the rotation center of the side reclining mechanism is lower than and behind the position of the rotation center of the main reclining mechanism.