SEWING STRUCTURE OF FACING SHEET MEMBER FOR COVERING VEHICLE SEAT, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND AIR BAG STRUCTURE FOR VEHICLE SEAT

• US 20100127487A1
• Filed: 11/19/2009
• Published: 05/27/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Duke University, Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: KAMO, Tomoko, NISHIYAMA, Kunio
• Application Number:
  US12/621,778
• Publication Number:
  US 20100127487A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 280/743.100
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/5883 by sewing, stitching or threading
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/207 in vehicle seats
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/481 Method

Abstract

An aspect of the present invention provides a sewing structure of a facing sheet member for covering a vehicle seat. The facing sheet member is formed by sewing a plurality of facing sheet pieces together at respective end parts thereof. Each of the facing sheet pieces includes a surface member and a pad member laminated on the surface member. In the end part of each of the facing sheet pieces, at least a part of the pad member is removed or the pad member is not laminated on the surface member. The plurality of facing sheet pieces are sewed together using the surface members at the end parts thereof.

Claims

1. A sewing structure of a facing sheet member for covering a vehicle seat, the facing sheet member being formed by sewing a plurality of facing sheet pieces together at respective end parts thereof, each of the facing sheet pieces comprising a surface member and a pad member laminated on the surface member,

wherein in the end part of each of the facing sheet pieces, at least a part of the pad member is removed or the pad member is not laminated on the surface member, and

wherein the plurality of facing sheet pieces are sewed together using the surface members at the end parts thereof.

2. The sewing structure according to claim 1,

wherein the end part of each of the facing sheet pieces is formed by removing the entire pad member laminated on the surface member.

3. The sewing structure according to claim 1,

wherein each of the facing sheet pieces is formed by laminating the pad member shorter than the surface member on the surface member, to form the end part thereof, in which the pad member is not laminated on the surface member.

4. The sewing structure according to claim 1,

wherein a thickness of the pad member is equal to or larger than that of the surface member.

5. The sewing structure according to claim 1,

wherein the end parts of the facing sheet pieces are sewed to the facing sheet pieces, respectively, while the end parts are turned.

6. The sewing structure according to claim 1,

wherein the end parts of the facing sheet pieces are sewed to one of the facing sheet pieces while the end parts are overlapped to the one of the facing sheet pieces.

7. A method for producing a sewing structure of a facing sheet member for covering a vehicle seat, the facing sheet member including a plurality of facing sheet pieces, each having a surface member and a pad member laminated on the surface member, the method comprising:

removing at least a part of the pad member laminated on the surface member at an end part of each of the plurality of facing sheet pieces; and

sewing the surface members of respective facing sheet pieces at the end parts thereof, in which the at least the part of the pad member is removed, to combine the respective facing sheet pieces.

8. An air bag structure for a vehicle seat, the air bag structure comprising:

an air bag provided in the vehicle seat; and

a facing sheet member covering the vehicle seat,

wherein the facing sheet member being formed by sewing a plurality of sheet pieces together at respective end parts thereof, each of the facing sheet pieces comprising a surface member and a pad member laminated on the surface member,

wherein in the end part of each of the facing sheet pieces, at least a part of the pad member is removed or the pad member is not laminated on the surface member, and

wherein the plurality of facing sheet pieces are sewed together using the surface members at the end parts thereof.

9. The air bag structure according to claim 8,

wherein the end parts of the facing sheet pieces are sewed to the facing sheet pieces, respectively, while the end parts are turned.