SEAT APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE

• US 20110042993A1
• Filed: 08/18/2010
• Published: 02/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/21/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd. (Aisin Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd. (Aisin Corp.)
• Inventors: MAEDA, Misato, Kashiwabara, Kazuyuki
• Application Number:
  US12/858,713
• Publication Number:
  US 20110042993A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 296/65.01
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0244 with logic circuits

Abstract

A seat apparatus for a vehicle includes a seat for a vehicle, a seat driving portion driving the seat to change a seat position, a controlling portion controlling an operation of the seat driving portion to change the seat position to a predetermined position, and an input portion receiving a control command relative to the controlling portion. The controlling portion includes an assembly control mode in which an operation of the seat driving portion is controlled on a basis of the control command input to the input portion by an assembly input operation performed when the vehicle is assembled and includes a normal control mode in which the operation of the seat driving portion is controlled on a basis of the control command input to the input portion by a normal input operation performed when the vehicle is used by a user.

Claims

1. A seat apparatus for a vehicle, comprising:

a seat for a vehicle;

a seat driving portion driving the seat to change a seat position that is a position of the seat relative to a vehicle body;

a controlling portion controlling an operation of the seat driving portion to change the seat position to a predetermined position; and

an input portion receiving a control command relative to the controlling portion, wherein the controlling portion includes an assembly control mode in which an operation of the seat driving portion is controlled on a basis of the control command input to the input portion by an assembly input operation performed when the vehicle is assembled and includes a normal control mode in which the operation of the seat driving portion is controlled on a basis of the control command input to the input portion by a normal input operation performed when the vehicle is used by a user.

2. The seat apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the assembly input operation is an operation to initiate a change of the seat position and the normal input operation is a continuous operation continued until the seat position is changed to the predetermined position.

3. The seat apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined position in the assembly control mode is specified in an arbitrary manner.

4. The seat apparatus according to claim 1, wherein at least one of a shifting from the normal control mode to the assembly control mode and a shifting from the assembly control mode to the normal control mode is achieved by at least one of a combination of the number of operation times and a combination of operation time periods relative to the input portion.

5. The seat apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the input portion includes a plurality of input operation members corresponding to a plurality of control commands of which resulting seat positions are different from each other and at least one of a shifting from the normal control mode to the assembly control mode and a shifting from the assembly control mode to the normal control mode is achieved by a combination of operations of the respective input operation members.

6. The seat apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a shifting from the assembly control mode to the normal control mode is automatically performed when an operation in the assembly control mode is completed.