Vehicle seat

• US 9,073,469 B2
• Filed: 11/15/2013
• Issued: 07/07/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/19/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NHK Spring Company Limited, Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: NHK Spring Company Limited, Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Fujikawa, Naoki, Murafuji, Hisashi
• Primary Examiner(s): WHITE, RODNEY BARNETT
• Application Number:
  US14/081,096
• Publication Number:
  US 20140139003A1
• Time in Patent Office: 599 Days
• Field of Search: 297/452.56
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/7094 Upholstery springs
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/72 Attachment or adjustment thereof

Abstract

A vehicle seat includes a seat component member that has a frame member, a cushion material, and a support member arranged on the frame member. The support member includes a frame-shaped member having a polygonal shape that can be attached to the frame member, and a bag-shaped planar member that is attached to the frame-shaped member in a tensioned state to support the cushion material. The frame-shaped member can be accommodated in the bag-shaped planner member while at least one side of the frame-shaped member is at a contracted state. The frame-shaped member is maintained at an expanded state as the at least one side of the frame-shaped member is at a non-contracted state, such that the planner member is expanded from an inner side thereof and is maintained at the tensioned state.

Claims

1. A vehicle seat comprising:

a seat component comprising a seat cushion or a seat back, the seat component including;

a frame defining a seat frame;

a cushion material configuring an outer shape of the seat and capable of elastically supporting a passenger; and

a support arranged on the frame and capable of supporting the cushion material, the support including a frame-shaped support frame having a polygonal shape that can be attached to the frame, and a bag-shaped planar member that is attached to the frame-shaped support frame in a tensioned state to support the cushion material,

wherein the frame-shaped support frame can be accommodated in the bag-shaped planar member while at least one side of the frame-shaped support frame is in a contracted state, and

wherein the frame-shaped support frame is maintained in an expanded state as the at least one side of the frame-shaped support frame is in a non-contracted state, such that the bag-shaped planar is expanded from an inner side thereof and is maintained in the tensioned state.

2. The vehicle seat according to claim 1,

wherein the support includes a restraint that is attached to the frame-shaped support frame covered with the bag-shaped planar member to restrain a relative movement between the frame-shaped support frame and the bag-shaped planar member.

3. The vehicle seat according to claim 1,

wherein the support includes a pair of divided end portions formed by partially dividing the frame-shaped support frame, and a connector that connects the pair of divided end portions, and

wherein when the pair of divided end portions are brought close to each other, the frame-shaped support frame is placed into the contracted state, and the frame-shaped support frame is maintained at the expanded state by connecting the pair of divided end portions with the connector while the pair of divided end portions are spaced from each other.