VEHICLE SEAT

• US 20170341530A1
• Filed: 05/24/2017
• Published: 11/30/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: SHINOZAKI, Yushi, KIMURA, Masahide
• Granted Patent: US 10,479,230 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/045 Longitudinal adjustment by means of articulated rods supporting the seat, e.g. parallelogram mechanisms B60N2/38 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/06 slidable B60N2/12 , B60N2/2209 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/1615 Parallelogram-like structure
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/4214 longitudinal
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/42736 of the whole seat
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/68 Seat frames

Abstract

A vehicle seat includes: a seat frame that serves as at least a portion of a skeletal structure; a fixed bracket that is fixed on the indoor wall, the fixed bracket including a connection part having a connection surface that is substantially orthogonal to a seat width direction and extending in a substantially vertical direction; a link member in which one end is swingably connected with the connection part and the other end is connected with the seat frame, the link member being swingable in a direction substantially parallel with the seat width direction set as a swinging center axis; and a regulation part which extends from the connection part in a direction substantially parallel with the swinging center axis, the regulation part being configured to regulate, by abutting on the link member in the seat front-and-rear direction, that the link member swings beyond a preset swinging range.

Claims

1. A vehicle seat that is to be fixed in an indoor wall of a vehicle, the vehicle seat comprising:

a seat frame that serves as at least a portion of a skeletal structure of the seat;

a fixed bracket that is fixed on the indoor wall, the fixed bracket including a connection part having a connection surface that is substantially orthogonal to a seat width direction and extending in a substantially vertical direction;

a link member in which one end is swingably connected with the connection part and the other end is connected with the seat frame, the link member being swingable in a direction substantially parallel with the seat width direction set as a swinging center axis; and

a regulation part which extends from the connection part in a direction substantially parallel with the swinging center axis, the regulation part being configured to regulate, by abutting on the link member in the seat front-and-rear direction, that the link member swings beyond a preset swinging range.

2. The vehicle seat according to claim 1,

wherein the link member has a surface substantially orthogonal to the direction substantially parallel with the seat width direction and is configured by a planar body in which a thickness direction is substantially parallel with the seat width direction, and

wherein the link member has a portion which is configured by an end face forming a thickness of the planar body and abuts on the regulation part.

3. The vehicle seat according to claim 1,

wherein the regulation part extends to the same side of the link member with respect to the connection surface in an upper end of the connection part.

4. The vehicle seat according to claim 1,

wherein the regulation part is provided at a front end portion of the fixed bracket.