Vehicle seat

• US 10,358,062 B2
• Filed: 02/09/2016
• Issued: 07/23/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tachi-S Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Tachi-S Company Limited
• Inventors: Arata, Kazuyoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Walraed-Sullivan, Kyle J.
• Application Number:
  US15/556,033
• Publication Number:
  US 20180043807A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,260 Days
• Field of Search: 29718013, 29718014, 29745246
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 7/74 for ventilation, heating or cooling actuated by rocking the chair A47C3/02
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/56 Heating or ventilating devices
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/5621 by air
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/565 sucked from the seat surface
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/5657 blown towards the seat surface

Abstract

To make a vehicle seat having functionality for blowing air from the surface of the seat feel comfortable for an occupant to sit on without feeling recesses of opening parts of air-blowing grooves thereon, while ensuring that the efficiency of blowing air to the seat surface is kept high. In the vehicle seat, a urethane pad of a seat cushion and a urethane pad of a seat back have through-holes and groove parts formed thereon, wherein the through-holes are connected to a duct at one end, and the groove parts have openings along a surface covered by a seat cover and are connected to the other ends of the through-holes. Each groove part is formed such that the respective opening has a narrower cross-sectional shape than an internal space of the groove part on the inner side of the urethane pad for the seat cushion/seat back.

Claims

1. A vehicle seat comprising:

a seat cushion, which is configured for an occupant to be seated thereon;

a seat back, which is configured for an occupant seated on the seat cushion to lean against;

a blower; and

a duct connected to the blower, that sends or exhausts air from the blower to the seat cushion or the seat back,

wherein the seat cushion has a urethane pad and a seat cover which covers a surface of the urethane pad,

wherein in the urethane pad, a through hole with one end connected to the duct, and a groove extending in a longitudinal direction with a longitudinally extending opening extending continuously in the longitudinal direction of the groove along a surface covered with the seat cover, connected to another end of the through hole, are formed,

wherein the groove has a cross-sectional shape in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal direction where the longitudinally extending opening has a width narrower than a space part inside the groove on an inner side of the urethane pad, and

wherein large opening-size parts are provided spaced along the longitudinal direction of the longitudinally extending opening at the surface of the urethane pad covered with the seat cover, the large opening-size parts having a width larger than parts of the longitudinally extending opening not provided with the large opening-size parts.

2. The vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein the urethane pad on both sides of the longitudinally extending opening of the groove formed in the urethane pad has a cross section where a thickness is sequentially reduced toward the longitudinally extending opening.

3. The vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein the large-opening size partes comprise semi-circular shaped openings discretely provided along the longitudinal direction of the longitudinally extending opening on both sides of the longitudinally extending opening.

4. The vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein a diffusion layer formed of breathable flexible material is formed between the urethane pad and the seat cover.

5. The vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of grooves are formed, and the plurality of grooves are respectively linearly formed.

6. A vehicle seat comprising:

a seat cushion, which is configured for an occupant to be seated thereon;

a seat back, which is configured for an occupant seated on the seat cushion to lean against;

a blower; and

a duct connected to the blower, that sends or exhausts air from the blower to the seat cushion or the seat back,

wherein the seat back has a urethane pad and a seat cover which covers a surface of the urethane pad,

wherein in the urethane pad, a through hole with one end connected to the duct, and a groove extending in a longitudinal direction with a longitudinally extending opening extending continuously in the longitudinal direction of the groove along a surface covered with the seat cover, connected to another end of the through hole, are formed,

wherein the groove has a cross-sectional shape in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal direction where the longitudinally extending opening has a width narrower than a space part inside the groove on an inner side of the urethane pad, and

wherein large opening-size parts are provided spaced along the longitudinal direction of the longitudinally extending opening at the surface of the urethane pad covered with the seat cover, the large opening-size parts having a width larger than parts of the longitudinally extending opening not provided with the large opening-size parts.

7. The vehicle seat according to claim 6, wherein the urethane pad on both sides of the longitudinally extending opening of the groove formed in the urethane pad has a cross section where a thickness is sequentially reduced toward the longitudinally extending opening.

8. The vehicle seat according to claim 6, wherein the large-opening size parts comprise semi-circular shaped openings spaced provided along the longitudinal direction of the longitudinally extending opening on both sides of the longitudinally extending opening.

9. The vehicle seat according to claim 6, wherein a diffusion layer formed of breathable flexible material is formed between the urethane pad and the seat cover.

10. The vehicle seat according to claim 6, wherein a plurality of grooves are formed, and the plurality of grooves are respectively linearly formed.

11. A vehicle seat comprising:

a seat cushion, which is configured for an occupant to be seated thereon;

a seat back, which is configured for an occupant seated on the seat cushion to lean against;

a blower; and

a duct connected to the blower, that sends or exhausts air from the blower to the seat cushion or the seat back,

wherein the seat cushion has a urethane pad and a seat cover which covers a surface of the urethane pad,

wherein the seat back has a urethane pad and a seat cover which covers a surface of the urethane pad,

wherein in the urethane pad of the seat cushion and the urethane pad of the seat back, a through hole with one end connected to the duct, and a groove extending in a longitudinal direction with a longitudinally extending opening extending continuously in the longitudinal direction of the groove along a surface covered with the seat cover, connected to another end of the through hole, are formed,

wherein the groove has a cross-sectional shape in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal direction where the longitudinally extending opening has a width narrower than a space part inside the groove on an inner side of the urethane pad of the seat cushion and the urethane pad of the seat back, and

wherein large opening-size parts are provided spaced along the longitudinal direction of the longitudinally extending opening at the surface of the urethane pad covered with the seat cover, the large opening-size parts having a width larger than parts of the longitudinally extending opening not provided with the large opening-size parts.

12. The vehicle seat according to claim 11, wherein the urethane pad on both sides of the longitudinally extending opening of the groove formed in the urethane pad of the seat cushion and the seat back has a cross section where thickness is sequentially reduced toward the longitudinally extending opening.

13. The vehicle seat according to claim 11, wherein the large-opening size parts comprise semi-circular shaped openings provided spaced along the longitudinal direction of the longitudinally extending opening on both sides of the longitudinally extending opening.

14. The vehicle seat according to claim 11, wherein a diffusion layer formed of breathable flexible material is formed between the urethane pad of the seat cushion and the seat cover and between the urethane pad of the seat back and the seat cover.

15. The vehicle seat according to claim 11, wherein a plurality of grooves are formed, and the plurality of grooves are respectively linearly formed.