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Vehicle footrest system

  • US 8,888,189 B2
  • Filed: 04/26/2010
  • Issued: 11/18/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2010
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A vehicle footrest system, comprising:

  • a rear side seat disposed at a vehicle compartment rear side;

    a front side seat disposed at a vehicle compartment front side of the rear side seat and equipped with an upright seatback provided at a vehicle front-rear direction rear end portion of a seat cushion capable of being sat on by an occupant;

    a tilting unit that tilts the seatback towards the vehicle front side with respect to the seat cushion as far as a foot-sole angle of the occupant seated in the rear side seat and retains an upper end portion of the seatback in a tilted state sloping diagonally towards the vehicle front and the vehicle top with respect to a bottom end portion of the seatback;

    a footrest section provided at a back face of the seatback and provided along the back face on which to rest the feet of the occupant seated in the rear side seat; and

    a moving unit for moving the seatback in the vehicle front-rear direction with respect to a vehicle body floor with the seatback in a state tilted towards the vehicle front side by the tilting unit, whereinan indented portion is provided at the footrest section into which the feet of the occupant seated in the rear side seat are inserted, andthe footrest section is equipped with a movable section that is supported in a recess shaped portion provided in the back face of the seatback so as to be capable of moving in the vehicle front-rear direction, and that forms the indented portion by moving the footrest section towards the vehicle front side in a state in which the seatback has been tilted towards the vehicle front side by the tilting unit.

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