Cushion member for a vehicle seat

• US 4,571,763 A
• Filed: 06/29/1984
• Issued: 02/25/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/1984
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Tachikawa Spring Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Tachikawa Spring Company Limited
• Inventors: Aoki, Akira, Suzuyama, Tomio
• Primary Examiner(s): Dorner, Kenneth J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): TRETTEL, MICHAEL
• Application Number:
  US06/626,044
• Time in Patent Office: 606 Days
• Field of Search: 5/446, 5/447, 5/464, 5/481, 5/DIG. 2, 297/455, 297/458, 297/DIG. 1
• US Class Current: 5/653
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 7/18 having foamed material included in cushioning part foamed material mattresses A47C27/14
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 297/01 Foam

Abstract

A cushion member for use in a vehicle seat is disclosed. In this cushion member, a block body formed of a soft foam material is embedded centrally of the bottom portion of a main body of the present cushion member which is formed of a harder foam material. The block body includes side walls that are not integrally connected to the main body, or separated from the main body by hardening/impregnation preventive means, while the upper wall of the block body oriented in a perpendicular direction relative to applied loads is welded integrally to the main body by means of a hardened/impregnated layer produced during formation of the main body. With the present cushion, therefore, loads applied to the cushion member are distributed over the entire block body, and at the same time the main body will not be deformed when the cushion member itself is deformed as the loads are applied thereto.

Claims

1. A cushion member for a vehicle seat comprising:

a main body formed of a foamed material and defining an upper seat area upon which sitting loads are applied, said main body defining a recess subjacent to said seat area, said recess including a ceiling wall and dependently projecting peripheral walls;

a block body disposed in said recess and having an upper surface adjacent to and in contact with said ceiling wall, and side walls adjacent respective ones of said peripheral walls, said block body being formed of a softer foamed material than the foamed material of said main body;

bonding means for permanently bonding said upper surface and said ceiling wall one to another, said bonding means forming a hardened layer between said block body and said main body; and

bonding-preventing means disposed between said side and peripheral walls for preventing bonding of said side and peripheral walls one to another, wherein

said bonding means is disposed substantially perpendicular to said applied sitting loads for distributing same over said block body.

2. A cushion member as in claim 1 wherein said bonding-preventive means include a flexible synthetic resin film.

3. A cushion member as in claim 1 wherein said bonding-preventing means includes an annular space defined between said side and peripheral walls.

4. A cushion member as in claim 3 wherein said annular space is established by means of said side walls being downwardly divergent relative said peripheral walls.

5. A cushion member as in claim 3 wherein said annular space is established by means of said peripheral walls being downwardly divergent relative said side walls.

6. A cushion member as in claim 3 wherein said bonding means is a hardened layer established by said block body foamed material, in the vicinity of said upper surface thereof, being impregnated by a portion of the foamed material of said main body.