Vehicle seat

• US 10,239,428 B2
• Filed: 05/23/2017
• Issued: 03/26/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tachi-S Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Tachi-S Company Limited
• Inventors: Yamauchi, Keigo, Moroi, Kouichi, Abe, Hitoshi, Kataoka, Kengo, Nomura, Makoto
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Chi Q
• Application Number:
  US15/602,153
• Publication Number:
  US 20180001808A1
• Time in Patent Office: 672 Days
• Field of Search: 29745258, 29745256
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/28 Seats readily mountable on, and dismountable from, existing seats or other parts of the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/2887 Fixation to a transversal anchorage bar, e.g. isofix
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/58 Seat coverings
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/5883 by sewing, stitching or threading
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/64 Back-rests or cushions B60N2/2222 takes precedence

Abstract

The vehicle seat is configured to improve child seat mountability, and to prevent deterioration in appearance design when the child seat is demounted. The vehicle seat includes an anchor storage recess formed in a pad that constitutes the seat for storing an anchor to be engaged with an engagement member attached to a child seat. The anchor storage recess is covered with a skin material having a slit. The slit has an inverse T-like shape.

Claims

1. A vehicle seat having an anchor storage recess formed in a pad, which constitutes the seat, for storing an anchor to be engaged with an engagement member attached to a child seat,

wherein the anchor storage recess has an insertion part for accommodating insertion of the engagement member, the insertion part being covered by a pair of slit-forming skin materials that form a slit,

wherein each slit-forming skin material has an upper side and an outer side, which are sewn to a peripheral part of another skin material, and inner and lower sides, which define the slit and are not sewn to the peripheral part of the another skin material, such that the slit can be opened, and

wherein the slit has an inverted T-shape.

2. The vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein:

an elastic member is sewn to each of the outer sides of the respective slit-forming skin materials, and

a pair of guide members are respectively sewn to the two slit-forming skin materials for movably holding the elastic member.

3. The vehicle seat according to claim 2, wherein each slit-forming skin material is sewn together with a respective wadding.

4. The vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein:

a positioning skin material is disposed at a lower part of the insertion part, and the positioning skin material has a lower side, a left side, and a right side sewn to the peripheral part of the another skin material.

5. The vehicle seat according to claim 4, wherein each slit-forming skin material is sewn together with a respective wadding.

6. The vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein the slit has the inverted T-shape when viewed along a direction of insertion of the engagement member.

7. A vehicle seat comprising:

a pad covered by a skin material;

an anchor recess formed in the pad and constructed to store an anchor; and

a pair of first skin material pieces that are adjacent to each other via respective inner edges and cover an opening to the anchor recess, a first portion of a slit being formed between the inner edges,

wherein at least a portion of each first skin material piece is sewn to a surrounding portion of the skin material,

lower edges of the first skin material pieces are not sewn to the surrounding portion of the skin material, a second portion of the slit being formed between the lower edges and the surrounding portion of the skin material, and

the first and second portions are arranged such that the slit has an inverted T-shape.

8. The vehicle seat according to claim 7, further comprising:

an elastic member extending between the first skin material pieces and being sewn to the first skin material pieces at opposite end portions; and

a pair of guide members, each guide member coupling a middle portion of the elastic member to a corresponding one of the first skin material pieces.

9. The vehicle seat according to claim 8,

wherein an engagement member is inserted through said slit into the anchor recess to engage with the anchor, the insertion displacing the first skin material pieces from the opening, and

wherein the guide members and the elastic member are constructed such that the displaced first skin material pieces return to cover the opening after removal of the engagement member.

10. The vehicle seat according to claim 7, wherein each first skin material piece is sewn to a corresponding wadding.

11. The vehicle seat according to claim 7, further comprising a second skin material piece disposed adjacent to the lower edges of the first skin material pieces and covering a portion of said opening,

wherein the second skin material piece is not sewn to the first skin material pieces.

12. The vehicle seat according to claim 11, wherein each first skin material piece and the second skin material piece is sewn to a corresponding wadding.

13. The vehicle seat according to claim 7, wherein the slit has the inverted T-shape when viewed along a direction of insertion of an engagement member to engage with the anchor.