Vehicle seat

• US 9,914,370 B2
• Filed: 06/09/2014
• Issued: 03/13/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2013
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Kuno, Satoru
• Primary Examiner(s): Michener, Joshua J
• Assistant Examiner(s): Walraed-Sullivan, Kyle J.
• Application Number:
  US14/299,121
• Publication Number:
  US 20140361592A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,373 Days
• Field of Search: 29734417, 29734415, 297325
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/045 Longitudinal adjustment by means of articulated rods supporting the seat, e.g. parallelogram mechanisms B60N2/38 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/06 slidable B60N2/12 , B60N2/2209 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0745 the slide path being curved
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/1695 with simultaneous height and inclination adjustment
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/181 Rods
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/1814 Parallelogram-like structure
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/1825 including a curved slide
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/1828 Slides only
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/1846 pivoting about a distant axis, e.g. virtual
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2002/0216 the seat or seat part turning about or moving along a transversal axis

Abstract

A vehicle seat including: a connection mechanism; a seat cushion connected to an interior structure of a vehicle via the connection mechanism and configured to be displaced between a first state and a second state at which the seat cushion is arranged at a position closer to a front part-side of the vehicle than at the first state; and a seat back, wherein a sitting surface of the seat cushion at the first state gradually inclines upwardly from the rear of the seat towards the front of the seat, and wherein the connection mechanism is configured to displace the seat cushion to the second state and move a front part-side of the seat cushion more downwardly than at the first state, whereby the sitting surface of the seat cushion is made more horizontal at the second state than at the first state.

Claims

1. A vehicle seat comprising:

a connection mechanism;

a seat cushion connected to an interior structure of a vehicle via the connection mechanism and configured to be displaced between;

a first sitting position; and

a second sitting position at which the seat cushion is arranged at a position closer to a front part-side of the vehicle than at the first sitting position; and

a seat back erectably connected to the seat cushion, wherein

a sitting surface of the seat cushion at the first sitting position forms a gradual upward incline from a rear of the vehicle seat towards a front of the vehicle seat,

the connection mechanism is configured to displace the seat cushion to the second sitting position and move a front part-side of the seat cushion more downwardly than at the first sitting position, whereby the sitting surface of the seat cushion is made more horizontal at the second sitting position than at the first sitting position,

the connection mechanism is lockable in each of the first sitting position and the second sitting position so as to maintain a sitting position of the vehicle seat relative to the interior structure of the vehicle,

a lifter mechanism having a vertical adjustment function is provided between the seat cushion and the connection mechanism,

the lifter mechanism is configured as a four-joint link including the seat cushion, the connection mechanism, a first lifter link member, and a second lifter link member,

the first lifter link member is rotatably connected to a front part of the seat cushion and a front part of the connection mechanism, respectively,

the second lifter link member is rotatably connected to a rear part of the seat cushion and a rear part of the connection mechanism, respectively, and

the connection mechanism is configured to displace the seat cushion from the first sitting position to the second sitting position independently of any rotatable movement of the first lifter link member and the second lifter link member.

2. The vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein

a lock releasing/closing member of the connection mechanism is integrated with a vertical adjustment operating member of the lifter mechanism so that the lock releasing/closing member and the vertical adjustment operating member are operable at the same time with a single actuation movement, and

a vertical adjustment operation of the lifter mechanism can be performed at a state where the connection mechanism is lock-released.