Seat cover and vehicle seat

• US 10,227,024 B2
• Filed: 06/27/2016
• Issued: 03/12/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NHK Spring Company Limited
• Original Assignee: NHK Spring Company Limited
• Inventors: Kageyama, Atsushi, Ono, Takashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Brindley, Timothy J
• Application Number:
  US15/194,259
• Publication Number:
  US 20160375807A1
• Time in Patent Office: 988 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/58 Seat coverings
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/5825 by hooks, staples, clips, snap fasteners or the like
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/5883 by sewing, stitching or threading

Abstract

A seat cover, comprising: a cover main body that is formed by stitching together a plurality of covering pieces at a plurality of seam allowances, and that covers a padding material of a vehicle seat, with a portion of the plurality of seam allowances disposed at a back face side of the cover main body facing the padding material being turned over to lie along a surface of the padding material; and a low friction cloth that is attached to the back face side of the cover main body in a state straddling across the portion of the plurality of seam allowances, and that is interposed between the cover main body and the padding material, with a surface of the low friction cloth that contacts the portion of the plurality of seam allowances having a lower coefficient of friction than a coefficient of friction of the surface of the padding material.

Claims

1. A seat cover, comprising:

a cover main body that is formed by stitching together at a stitch a plurality of covering pieces, and that covers a padding material of a vehicle seat, each of the plurality of covering pieces having an edge and an end portion extending from the stitch to the edge, at least one end portion of the plurality of covering pieces being folded over towards a back face side of the cover main body so that a first surface of the at least one end portion is adjacent to the back face side and a second surface of the at least one end portion faces in a direction towards the padding material; and

a low friction cloth that is attached to the back face side of the cover main body in a state slidably covering the end portion of each of the plurality of covering pieces, and that is interposed between the cover main body and the padding material, with a surface of the low friction cloth that contacts at least one end portion of the plurality of covering pieces having a lower coefficient of friction than a coefficient of friction of the surface of the padding material.

2. The seat cover of claim 1, wherein:

in a state in which the cover main body covers the padding material, a pair of the plurality of covering pieces stitched together at the at least one end portion configures a surface of a side support section disposed at a vehicle width direction outer side of a seat cushion or a seatback of the vehicle seat; and

the at least one end portion extends, at a vehicle width direction intermediate portion of the side support section, along a direction intersecting the vehicle width direction.

3. The seat cover of claim 2, wherein the low friction cloth is disposed at a length direction intermediate portion of the side support section.

4. The seat cover of claim 1, wherein each edge of the low friction cloth is sewn together with a seam between the respective covering pieces.

5. The seat cover of claim 1, wherein the low friction cloth comprises a tricot fabric of synthetic fibers.

6. A vehicle seat, comprising:

at least one of a seat cushion cover to cover a seat cushion pad serving as a padding material of a seat cushion, or a seatback cover to cover a seatback pad serving as a padding material of a seatback, configured by the seat cover of claim 1.