Conveyance seat

• US 10,507,747 B2
• Filed: 03/28/2018
• Issued: 12/17/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company), TS Tech Company Limited
• Original Assignee: TS Tech Company Limited
• Inventors: Tsurumi, Kazuhiro, Isobe, Ryuji, Motoda, Shinichiro, Honma, Yuichi, Tanabe, Gen, Ito, Daichi, Sugimoto, Takeshi, Takayama, Keishi
• Primary Examiner(s): Wendell, Mark R
• Application Number:
  US15/938,170
• Publication Number:
  US 20180281640A1
• Time in Patent Office: 629 Days
• Field of Search: 29718012, 2971801
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/5685 Resistance
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/70 Upholstery springs ; Upholstery
• CPC Class Codes: B62J 1/12 Box-shaped seats; Bench-type seats, e.g. dual or twin seats
• CPC Class Codes: B62J 1/28 Other additional equipment, e.g. back-rests for children
• CPC Class Codes: B62J 33/00 Arrangements for warming riders specially adapted for cycles

Abstract

A conveyance seat configured to stabilize a position of a temperature detection unit to suppress positional deviation of the temperature detection unit is described. The conveyance seat comprises a cushion pad, a bottom plate, an electric heater which is attached to the cushion pad, a thermistor which detects temperature at a location between the cushion pad and the bottom plate during operation of the electric heater, a housing cavity with a hollowed shape formed in a bottom portion of the cushion pad, and a holding pad which holds the thermistor within the housing cavity by being fit in the housing cavity with the thermistor attached thereto. The thermistor is held by the holding pad, and is positioned between the cushion pad and the holding pad, within the housing cavity.

Claims

1. A conveyance seat comprising:

a cushion pad;

a bottom wall on which the cushion pad is placed;

a temperature control unit which is attached to the cushion pad;

a temperature detection unit configured to detect a temperature at a location between the cushion pad and the bottom wall, during an operation of the temperature control unit;

a housing unit with a hollowed shape which is formed on either one of the cushion pad or the bottom wall, in a portion facing an other of the cushion pad or the bottom wall; and

a holding unit which is fit in the housing unit, with the temperature detection unit attached thereto, to thereby hold the temperature detection unit within the housing unit;

wherein;

the temperature detection unit is held by the holding unit and positioned between the cushion pad and the holding unit within the housing unit;

the bottom wall has a protruding portion that protrudes at a position adjacent to the holding unit;

the protruding portion is a convex portion that protrudes toward a side of the bottom wall on which the cushion pad is positioned and in a thickness direction of the conveyance seat; and

a protrusion size of the convex portion is longer than a length of the holding unit in the thickness direction.

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

the protruding portion is in contact with a bottom face of the cushion pad.

3. The conveyance seat according to claim 2, wherein:

the protruding portion is a fore wall provided forward of the holding unit in the front to back direction of the conveyance seat; and

the fore wall protrudes toward a side in which the cushion pad is positioned and in the thickness direction of the conveyance seat.

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

the temperature detection unit outputs a signal according to a detected temperature;

a cable that forms a transmission path for the signal is connected to the temperature detection unit;

the housing unit is formed in a bottom portion of the cushion pad;

a concave portion, for a portion of the cable coming outside of the housing unit from an end of the housing unit, is formed in a bottom portion of the cushion pad that is adjacent to the housing unit.

5. The conveyance seat according to claim 1, wherein:

the temperature detection unit is attached to the holding unit and is wrapped with a cushioning material; and

the cushioning material that wraps the temperature detection unit is sandwiched between the holding unit and the cushion pad in the housing unit.

6. The conveyance seat according to claim 1, wherein:

the conveyance seat is mounted on a conveyance and exposed outward; and

the holding unit comprises a cushioning material having a thermal-insulating property.

7. The conveyance seat according to claim 1, further comprising:

a supporting member in which a through hole is formed;

a first cushion member arranged above the supporting member; and

a seating sensor arranged between the supporting member and the first cushion member;

wherein;

the seating sensor comprises

a contact point unit; and

an intake/exhaust port unit which communicates with the contact point unit; and

the intake/exhaust port unit is passed through the through hole of the supporting member.

8. The conveyance seat according to claim 7, wherein the intake/exhaust port unit is passed through the through hole of the supporting member, and is arranged below the supporting member.

9. The conveyance seat according to claim 7, further comprising a second cushion member arranged over the supporting member;

wherein;

the first cushion member is arranged above the second cushion member; and

the seating sensor is arranged between the first cushion member and the second cushion member.

10. The conveyance seat according to claim 7, wherein the first cushion member comprises a rubber material comprising a sulfur component.

11. The conveyance seat according to claim 7, further comprising a seat heater arranged over the seating sensor.

12. A conveyance seat comprising:

a cushion pad;

a bottom wall on which the cushion pad is placed;

a temperature control unit which is attached to the cushion pad;

a temperature detection unit configured to detect a temperature at a location between the cushion pad and the bottom wall, during an operation of the temperature control unit;

a housing unit with a hollowed shape which is formed on either one of the cushion pad or the bottom wall, in a portion facing an other of the cushion pad or the bottom wall; and

a holding unit which is fit in the housing unit, with the temperature detection unit attached thereto, to thereby hold the temperature detection unit within the housing unit;

wherein;

the temperature detection unit is held by the holding unit and positioned between the cushion pad and the holding unit within the housing unit;

the bottom wall has a protruding portion that protrudes at a position adjacent to the holding unit;

the protruding portion is a lateral side wall provided in an outer side of the bottom wall relative to the holding unit in a width direction of the conveyance seat; and

the lateral side wall protrudes toward a side in which the cushion pad is positioned, in the thickness direction of the conveyance seat.

13. The conveyance seat of claim 12, wherein the protruding portion is in contact with a bottom face of the cushion pad.

14. The conveyance seat of claim 12, wherein:

the temperature detection unit is attached to the holding unit and is wrapped with a cushioning material; and

the cushioning material that wraps the temperature detection unit is sandwiched between the holding unit and the cushion pad in the housing unit.

15. A conveyance seat comprising:

a cushion pad;

a bottom wall on which the cushion pad is placed;

a temperature control unit which is attached to the cushion pad;

a temperature detection unit configured to detect a temperature at a location between the cushion pad and the bottom wall, during an operation of the temperature control unit;

a housing unit with a hollowed shape which is formed on either one of the cushion pad or the bottom wall, in a portion facing an other of the cushion pad or the bottom wall; and

a holding unit which is fit in the housing unit, with the temperature detection unit attached thereto, to thereby hold the temperature detection unit within the housing unit wherein;

the temperature detection unit is held by the holding unit and positioned between the cushion pad and the holding unit within the housing unit;

the cushion pad comprises

a bank portion provided to a peripheral portion,

a groove provided to a position adjacent to the bank portion, and

a supporting face which supports an occupant;

the conveyance seat further comprises;

a covering which covers the cushion pad, where an end portion thereof is drawn into the groove,

an electric heater attached to the supporting face, and

a leading line provided for electric power supply to the electric heater;

the cushion pad has a hole formed on a bottom portion of the groove; and

the leading line comprises

a connecting portion connected to the electric heater on a same side as the supporting face in the thickness direction of the cushion pad, and

a successive portion which is successive to the connecting portion and is passed through the hole.

16. The conveyance seat according to claim 15, wherein:

a concave portion is formed on a bottom face of the cushion pad, which is positioned in the opposite side of the supporting face in the thickness direction; and

a portion of the successive portion which has passed through the hole and reached to a position facing the bottom face comes into the concave portion.

17. The conveyance seat according to claim 15, wherein:

the cushion pad comprises an adjacent portion which is adjacent to the groove, in the opposite side of the bank portion;

the electric heater comprises a substrate shaped into a pad, and attached to the supporting face, so that an edge of one end portion of the substrate is along an edge, in the groove side-end adjacent to the groove, of the adjacent portion;

the one end portion of the substrate comprises an extending portion which extends to fix the successive portion; and

the extending portion is bent downward at an edge of the groove side-end and is passed through the hole together with the successive portion.

18. The conveyance seat according to claim 17, wherein:

a notch is provided to the groove side-end of the adjacent portion, in a portion that faces the extending portion; and

the bent portion of the extending portion is bent downward at an edge of the groove side-end and comes into the notch.

19. The conveyance seat according to claim 18, wherein the notch is formed such that the bent portion which has come into the notch has the end face in the same side with the groove flush with a face positioned in an edge of the groove side-end.

20. The conveyance seat according to claim 17, wherein:

a cushioning material is attached to the extending portion;

the successive portion is fixed to the extending portion and is sandwiched between the extending portion and the cushioning material; and

the extending portion passes through the hole together with the successive portion and the cushioning material.