Seat with air vent

• US 9,707,875 B2
• Filed: 08/29/2014
• Issued: 07/18/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: TS Tech Company Limited
• Original Assignee: TS Tech Company Limited
• Inventors: Kobayashi, Sachio, Abe, Ryuzaburo
• Primary Examiner(s): WHITE, RODNEY BARNETT
• Application Number:
  US14/914,546
• Publication Number:
  US 20160207431A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,054 Days
• Field of Search: 29718013, 29718014, 29745242, 29745241
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/56 Heating or ventilating devices
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/5621 by air
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/5642 with circulation of air through a layer inside the seat
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/58 Seat coverings
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/70 Upholstery springs ; Upholstery

Abstract

It is an object to provide a seat of which a seating comfort can be improved. The seat includes a seat cushion pad having an air passage formed inside and an air vent formed at an upper surface thereof, and is configured to allow air in the air passage to blow out through the air vent, wherein the seat cushion pad includes a pad body and a cover member which is disposed over the pad body to form the air passage between the pad body and the cover member and in which the air vent is formed, and a front end portion of the cover member extends downward over a front end portion of the pad body.

Claims

1. A seat, comprising:

a seat cushion pad having an air passage formed inside and an air vent formed at an upper surface thereof, the seat being configured to allow air to flow through the air passage and the air vent,

wherein the seat cushion pad includes a pad body and a cover member, the pad body having an upward-facing surface portion,

the pad body including a front-side stepped portion located at a front end portion of the pad body, the pad body having an upward-facing contact surface that is disposed frontward of the front-side stepped portion and lower in level than the upward-facing surface portion of the pad body,

the cover member being disposed over the pad body to form the air passage between the pad body and the cover member, the air vent being formed in the cover member, and

wherein the cover member includes a front end portion disposed to cover the front-side stepped portion, wherein the front end portion of the cover member has a lower end in contact with the upward-facing contact surface.

2. The seat according to claim 1, wherein one of an upper surface of the pad body and a lower surface of the cover member has a protrusion formed therein, and the other of the upper surface of the pad body and the lower surface of the cover member has a locating depression formed therein to be fitted on the protrusion.

3. The seat according to claim 2, wherein the protrusion is formed in the upper surface of the pad body and the locating depression is formed in the lower surface of the cover member, and

wherein lateral widths of the protrusion and the locating depression are greater on front sides thereof than on rear sides thereof.

4. The seat according to claim 2, wherein the protrusion is formed in the lower surface of the cover member and the locating depression is formed in the upper surface of the pad body, and

wherein lateral widths of the protrusion and the locating depression are greater on rear sides thereof than on front sides thereof.

5. The seat according to claim 2, wherein the protrusion and the locating depression are formed at a laterally central portion of a front region of the seat cushion pad.

6. The seat according to claim 1, wherein the pad body and the cover member have air-passage depressions respectively that are opposite to each other to form the air passage.

7. The seat according to claim 1, wherein the pad body has an upper surface in which a depression is formed, and

wherein the cover member includes a cover body and an extensional marginal portion, the cover body being engageable with the depression to form the air passage between the cover body and the pad body, the extensional marginal portion extending from at least one side of a periphery of the cover body horizontally outward beyond an edge of the depression.

8. The seat according to claim 7, comprising an outer covering material with which the seat cushion pad is covered,

wherein the pad body includes an outer covering attachment member provided horizontally outward of the depression, such that an engageable portion provided in the outer covering material is engageable with the outer covering attachment member, and

wherein the extensional marginal portion is configured to extend near the outer covering attachment member so as to form part of an opening for allowing the engageable portion to be engaged with the outer covering attachment member.

9. The seat according to claim 7, wherein the extensional marginal portion is configured to extend from left and right sides of the periphery of the cover body.

10. The seat according to claim 9, wherein the pad body includes a bulging portion provided at each of left and right sides of the cover member, the bulging portion bulging upward beyond the cover member, and

wherein the extensional marginal portion is configured to extend up to a position adjacent to the bulging portion.

11. The seat according to claim 7, wherein the extensional marginal portion is configured to extend from a front side of the periphery of the cover body up to or farther beyond the front end portion of the pad body.

12. The seat according to claim 1, wherein the pad body includes a first body portion and a second body portion, the second body portion being provided between the first body portion and the cover member, the second body portion being laid over an upper surface of the first body portion, and the second body portion having a front end portion extending downward.

13. The seat according to claim 12, wherein the first body portion includes a front end portion, the front-side stepped portion being provided at the front end portion of the first body portion, and

wherein the front end portion of the second body portion is in contact with the upward-facing contact surface that is disposed frontward of the front-side stepped portion of the first body portion.

14. The seat according to claim 12, wherein the front end portion of the second body portion is laid over the front-side stepped portion.

15. The seat according to claim 1, wherein the front end portion of the cover member extends downward over the front-side stepped portion.

16. The seat according to claim 1, wherein the cover member is bent downward to cover the front-side stepped portion with the front end portion of the cover member.

17. A seat, comprising:

a seat cushion pad having an air passage formed inside and an air vent formed at an upper surface thereof, the seat being configured to allow air to flow through the air passage and the air vent,

wherein the seat cushion pad includes a pad body and a cover member, the pad body having an upward-facing surface portion, the cover member being disposed over the pad body to form the air passage between the pad body and the cover member, the air vent being formed in the cover member, and

the cover member is bent to have a front end portion thereof extending downward to cover a frontward-facing surface of the pad body with the front end portion of the cover member,

the pad body includes a front-side stepped portion located at a front end portion of the pad body,

the pad body having an upward-facing contact surface that is disposed frontward of the front-side stepped portion and lower in level than the upward-facing surface portion of the pad body, and

the downward-extending front end portion of the cover member is disposed to cover the front-side stepped portion, and has a lower end in contact with the upward-facing contact surface.