PAD OF VEHICLE SEAT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE PAD

• US 20120098323A1
• Filed: 10/13/2011
• Published: 04/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: FUJIMOTO, Kazutaka, GOTOU, Seiichi
• Application Number:
  US13/272,845
• Publication Number:
  US 20120098323A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 297/452.53
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/7017 characterised by the manufacturing process; manufacturing upholstery or upholstery springs not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/7094 Upholstery springs
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/72 Attachment or adjustment thereof

Abstract

The present invention provides a pad of a vehicle seat that includes a foam, and an insert wire that is connected to an upholstery covering an outer surface of the foam, in which the insert wire is disposed within the foam in an elastically-deformed state. The present invention also provides a method of manufacturing a pad of a vehicle seat that includes a wire mounting process of mounting the insert wire within a mold where the insert wire is elastically deformed to a specified shape and mounted on a predetermined position; and a foam molding process of molding the foam, in which the insert wire elastically-deformed into the specified shape is disposed, by the mold.

Claims

1. A pad of a vehicle seat, comprising:

a foam; and

an insert wire that is connected to an upholstery covering an outer surface of the foam, wherein

the insert wire is disposed within the foam in an elastically-deformed state.

2. The pad of a vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein

the insert wire is disposed within a foam that constructs the pad of one vehicle seat in a first state, while disposed within a foam that constructs the pad of another vehicle seat that is different from the one vehicle seat in a second state, and

a not-elastically-deformed state of the insert wire is set between the first state and the second state.

3. The pad of a vehicle seat according to claim 2, wherein

the not-elastically-deformed state of the insert wire is set in an intermediate position between the first state and the second state.

4. The pad of a vehicle seat according to claim 2, wherein

in the insert wire in the not-elastically-deformed state, when the insert wire is elastically deformed, there are an elastically-deforming part and a not-elastically-deforming part, and a boundary between the parts is curved in advance.

5. The pad of a vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein

when the insert wire is elastically deformed, the insert wire is elastically deformed in a width direction of the pad.

6. The pad of a vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein

when the insert wire is elastically deformed, the insert wire is elastically deformed in a forward and rearward direction of the pad.

7. The pad of a vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein

when the insert wire is elastically deformed, the insert wire is elastically deformed in a three-dimensional manner that is in the width direction and the forward and rearward direction of the pad.

8. A method of manufacturing a pad of a vehicle seat that includes a foam and an insert wire that is connected to an upholstery covering an outer surface of the foam, comprising:

a wire mounting process of mounting the insert wire within a mold while the insert wire is elastically deformed to a specified shape and mounted on a predetermined position; and

a foam molding process of molding the foam, in which the insert wire is elastically-deformed into the specified shape is disposed, by the mold.