SEAT APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE

• US 20100176629A1
• Filed: 12/29/2009
• Published: 07/15/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/13/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd. (Aisin Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd. (Aisin Corp.)
• Inventors: Goto, Naoki, Yamada, Yukifumi, Isobe, Shinya
• Application Number:
  US12/648,633
• Publication Number:
  US 20100176629A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 297/216.100
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/065 Rear seats
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0717 Rounded, e.g. circular
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2022/266 Rear seats, e.g. benches
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2022/485 for sensing belt anchor position, belt orientation, or the like

Abstract

A seat apparatus for vehicle includes a slide mechanism including a lower rail adapted to be fixed to a vehicle floor and an upper rail movably supported relative to the lower rail and adapted to be fixed to a first end portion of a seat frame, a belt anchor connected to a seat belt fixed to the seat frame, a wire member arranged below a second end portion of the seat frame and having ends adapted to be fixed to the vehicle floor, and a separating load transmission mechanism including a wire member retaining device connected to the belt anchor, the wire member retaining device being relatively movable along the wire member in a normal operation and retaining the wire member to lock the relative movement in a case where a separating load equal to or greater than a predetermined level is applied to the belt anchor.

Claims

1. A seat apparatus for vehicle, comprising:

a slide mechanism including a lower rail adapted to be fixed to a vehicle floor and an upper rail movably supported relative to the lower rail and adapted to be fixed to a first end portion of a seat frame in a vehicle width direction;

a belt anchor connected to a seat belt fixed to the seat frame;

a wire member arranged below a second end portion of the seat frame in the vehicle width direction which is out of association with any slide mechanism, the wire member being extended, under tension, in parallel to the slide mechanism and having ends adapted to be fixed to the vehicle floor; and

a separating load transmission mechanism including a wire member retaining means connected to the belt anchor, the wire member retaining means being relatively movable along the wire member in a normal operation and retaining the wire member to lock the relative movement in a case where a separating load equal to or greater than a predetermined level is applied to the belt anchor.

2. The seat apparatus for the vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the wire member retaining means comprises a plurality of receiving members fixed to the seat frame and positioned along an upper surface of the wire member keeping a predetermined distance from one another, and a movable pressing member having a pressuring portion facing a bottom surface of the wire member between the adjacent receiving members, the movable pressing member configured to move upwardly when a separating load is transmitted thereto from the seat belt via the belt anchor.

3. The seat apparatus for the vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the wire member retaining means comprises a plurality of receiving members fixed to the seat frame and positioned along a lower surface of the wire member keeping a predetermined distance from one another, and a movable pressing member having a pressuring portion facing an upper surface of the wire member between the adjacent receiving members, the movable pressing member configured to move downwardly when a separating load is transmitted thereto from the seat belt via the belt anchor.

4. The seat apparatus for the vehicle according to claim 2, wherein the separating load transmission mechanism comprises a crank mechanism connected to the belt anchor and converting a motion of the belt anchor based on the separating load to a rotational movement, and a motion converting mechanism converting the rotational movement of the crank mechanism to a linear movement in an upward-downward direction to transmit the linear movement to the movable pressing member.

5. The seat apparatus for the vehicle according to claim 4, wherein the motion converting mechanism corresponds to a cam mechanism, and the movable pressing member includes an upward-downward movement restricting member restricting a linear movement of the movable pressing member in an upward-downward direction in a normal operation, and allowing the linear movement of the movable pressing member in the upward-downward direction by being deformed or damaged when the separating load is applied.

6. The seat apparatus for the vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the seat apparatus for the vehicle corresponds to a seat apparatus for two occupants and the wire member is positioned below the seat apparatus for two occupants at a side closer to a seat for a single occupant when the seat for the single occupant is provided at a side of a seat for two occupants.

7. The seat apparatus for the vehicle according to claim 1, wherein at least one end of the wire member which is arranged with tension in parallel to the slide mechanism is supported by a wire intermediate portion support member to be bent, thereby being fixed to the vehicle floor.