Seat cover and vehicle seat

• US 9,987,959 B2
• Filed: 05/24/2016
• Issued: 06/05/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2015
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Hayashi, Nobuki, Yamauchi, Katsuhito
• Primary Examiner(s): White, Rodney B
• Application Number:
  US15/162,906
• Publication Number:
  US 20160347221A1
• Time in Patent Office: 742 Days
• Field of Search: 2972281, 29722811, 29722812, 29722813, 297229, 2972181, 2972182, 2972183, 2972184, 2972185, 29745261
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/5816 attachments thereof
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/80 Head-rests

Abstract

A seat cover of a vehicle seat configured to cover an outer surface of a seat pad, wherein a part of the seat cover which is configured to cover at least a seating surface of the seat pad consists of a seating surface piece made of a piece of cloth, and wherein, when covering the outer surface of the seat pad, the seat cover is bonded only to the seating surface.

Claims

1. A vehicle seat, comprising:

a seat back having a seat pad, wherein the seat pad has a front-facing seating surface configured to provide a back rest for an occupant; and

a seat cover covering an outer surface of the seat pad and including;

a first piece of cloth entirely covering the front-facing seating surface of the seat pad; and

a second piece of cloth covering a portion of the outer surface of the seat pad which is not covered by the first piece of cloth,

wherein the seat cover is bonded only to the front-facing seating surface,

wherein the seat pad includes a seat portion and a headrest portion integrally connected to the seat portion and configured to support a head of the occupant, each of the seat portion and the headrest portion having a seating surface,

wherein the first piece of cloth covers both the seat portion and headrest portion,

wherein the first piece of cloth is bonded to the seating surface of the seat portion and is not bonded to the seating surface of the headrest portion, and

wherein an opening portion is formed in the seat cover so as to wrap the seat pad.

2. The vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein the seat cover consists of the first piece of cloth and the second piece of cloth.