Vehicle seat and seat back board

• US 9,505,329 B2
• Filed: 05/02/2011
• Issued: 11/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Mori, Hisaya, Awata, Shinji, Kobayashi, Hideki
• Primary Examiner(s): Allred, David E
• Application Number:
  US14/114,127
• Publication Number:
  US 20140049090A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,038 Days
• Field of Search: 297/218.2, 297/218.3, 297/452.6
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/5825 by hooks, staples, clips, snap fasteners or the like
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/7094 Upholstery springs
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/72 Attachment or adjustment thereof

Abstract

A vehicle seat and a seat back board are obtained in which a seat cover can easily be anchored to a resin spring. In a seat back board, clips attached on a cover side are engaged with vertical clip engagement portions of the seat back board, thereby enabling the cover to be anchored to a back spring section of the seat back board. An anchoring operation of the cover to the back spring section can accordingly be made easier than in conventional anchoring structures employing for example hog rings. Moreover, since only pairs of openings are formed to the back spring section of the seat back board in order to provide the vertical clip engagement portions, any detriment to the moldability of the back spring section can be avoided.

Claims

1. A vehicle seat comprising:

a resin spring that is (i) made from resin, (ii) supported at both end sides by a seat frame, and (iii) formed with at least one pair of adjacent openings, each pair with a clip engagement portion configured between the pair of openings, the resin spring including a flexing portion between both end sides, the flexing portion having a wave-shaped cross-section profile which extends in a seatback width direction, formed of plural curved faces joined together in the width direction, and configured to stretch when a load acts in a direction toward a seatback rear side;

a pad supported on the resin spring;

a seat cover that covers a front face of the pad; and

a clip that is attached to a seat cover side that includes a pair of arm portions that are respectively inserted into the pair of openings, with a hook portion formed at a leading end side of each of the pair of arm portions, the respective hook portions hooking onto the clip engagement portion to anchor the clip to edge portions of the pair of openings.

2. The vehicle seat of claim 1, wherein:

the clip is configured such that when base end sides of the pair of arm portions are brought towards each other, the leading end sides of the pair of arm portions pivot about an intermediate portion of the pair of arm portions so as to move apart from each other.

3. The vehicle seat of claim 1, wherein:

the openings are formed in the flexing portion.

4. The vehicle seat of claim 1, wherein:

the resin spring is fixed at both end portions to the seat frame; and

the openings are formed at a location excluding both end portions and a central portion of the resin spring.

5. The vehicle seat of claim 1, further comprising:

a plurality of clips; and

a plurality of pairs of adjacent openings, wherein;

at least two of the clips attached to the seat cover side are respectively anchored to at least two of the clip engagement portions formed at the resin spring, such that the at least two of the clips have different engagement directions, with respect to the clip engagement portions and each other, the seat cover thereby positioning the pad with respect to the resin spring in at least two directions.

6. The vehicle seat of claim 1, wherein:

the seat frame is a seatback frame including a pair of left and right side frames;

the resin spring is disposed along the seatback width direction between the pair of side frames;

the pad is a seatback pad that is disposed on a front face side of the resin spring and that is provided with a communication portion that places a front face side and a rear face side of the pad in communication with each other;

the seat cover covers at least the front face side of the seatback pad; and

the clip is inserted through the communication portion and anchored to the edge portions of the pair of openings.

7. The vehicle seat of claim 6, wherein:

the resin spring is integrally provided to a seat back board that is made from resin and is provided with a back board portion disposed at a back face side of the seatback frame.

8. The vehicle seat of claim 7, wherein:

a plurality of the resin springs are provided so as to be separated from each other in a height direction of the seatback, the plurality of resin springs being set with a draft so as to enable removal from a mold in one of the seatback height directions.

9. The vehicle seat of claim 2, wherein intermediate portions of each of the pair of arm portions are provided with projection portions that project out in directions approaching each other.

10. The vehicle seat of claim 1, wherein:

the flexing portion has the wave-shaped cross-section profile when viewed in a direction substantially perpendicular to the direction toward the seatback rear side.