Vehicle seat

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10029587-B2
Application number	US-201715483224-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 10, 2017
Priority date	Apr 11, 2016
Publication date	Jul 24, 2018
Grant date	Jul 24, 2018

Abstract

A vehicle seat including a slide lock mechanism which is configured to lock a locked part provided to a second rail side to a locking part provided to a first rail side or release the locking of the locked part and the locking part, and a walk-in mechanism including a shifting preparation mechanism part which is provided to the first rail side, a holding mechanism part which is provided to the second rail side and holds a locking released state of the slide lock mechanism, and a holding release mechanism part which is provided to the second rail side and shifts the locking released state of the slide lock mechanism to a state where the slide lock mechanism is capable of shifting to the locked state.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle seat comprising:
an elongated first rail fixable to an interior wall surface of a vehicle;
a second rail which is configured to move relative to the first rail in a longitudinal direction thereof and support a seat main body;
a slide lock which is configured to lock a locked part provided to a second rail side to a locking part provided to a first rail side or release the locking of the locked part and the locking part at a predetermined relative position of the second rail to the first rail in a lockable region, the lockable region being a region where the locking part and the locked part are configured to be selectively locked to each other at a plurality of positions in the longitudinal direction; and
a walk-in mechanism which is provided to the first rail side and the second rail side and is configured to release a locked state of the slide lock and hold a state where the locked state is released in association with a forward tilting operation of a seat back,
wherein the walk-in mechanism includes a shifting preparation mechanism part which is provided to the first rail side at a position on a front side of the lockable region and is configured to shift the slide lock from a locking released state to a state where the slide lock is shifted to the locked state, and
wherein the walk-in mechanism includes a holder which is provided to the second rail side and holds the locking released state of the slide lock when the seat main body in which the seat back is in a forward-tilted state is slid so as to come into contact with the shifting preparation mechanism part from the rear side, and a holding release which is provided to the second rail side and shifts the locking released state of the slide lock to the state where the slide lock is shifted to the locked state when the seat main body in which the seat back is in the forward-tilted state is moved rearward from a foremost position to which the seat main body can slide and comes into contact with the shifting preparation mechanism part from the front side.

2. The vehicle seat according to claim 1 , further comprising a cancel mechanism which is separate from the holding release and shifts the locking released state of the slide lock to the state where the slide lock shifts to the locked state in response to an operation at the seat main body side.

3. The vehicle seat according to claim 1 , further comprising a first pivot member positioned adjacent to a second pivot member.

4. A vehicle seat comprising:
an elongated first rail fixable to an interior wall surface of a vehicle;
a second rail which is configured to move relative to the first rail in a longitudinal direction thereof and support a seat main body;
a slide lock which is configured to lock a locked part provided to a second rail side to a locking part provided to a first rail side or release the locking of the locked part and the locking part at a predetermined relative position of the second rail to the first rail in a lockable region, the lockable region being a region where the locking part and the locked part are configured to be selectively locked to each other at a plurality of positions in the longitudinal direction; and
a walk-in mechanism which is provided to the first rail side and the second rail side and is configured to release a locked state of the slide lock and hold a state where the locked state is released in association with a forward tilting operation of a seat back,
wherein the walk-in mechanism includes a shifting preparation mechanism part which is provided to the first rail side at a position on a front side of the lockable region and is configured to shift the slide lock from a locking released state to a state where the slide lock is shifted to the locked state, and
wherein the walk-in mechanism includes a swing bracket which is provided to the second rail side and holds the locking released state of the slide lock when the seat main body in which the seat back is in a forward-tilted state is slid so as to come into contact with the shifting preparation mechanism part from the rear side, the swing bracket shifts the locking released state of the slide lock to the state where the slide lock is shifted to the locked state when the seat main body in which the seat back is in the forward-tilted state is moved rearward from a foremost position to which the seat main body can slide and comes into contact with the shifting preparation mechanism part from the front side.

5. The vehicle seat according to claim 4 , wherein the swing bracket is urged to pivot in a clockwise direction by coil spring.

6. The vehicle seat according to claim 4 , wherein a stopper restricts pivoting in the clockwise direction of the swing bracket.

Assignees

• Toyota Boshoku Kk

Inventors

• Hattori Takashi
• Matsufuji Tomio

Classifications

• B60N2/12

  slidable and tiltable · CPC title

• B60N2/0843

  about a longitudinal axis · CPC title

• B60N2/20

  the back-rest being tiltable, e.g. to permit easy access (B60N2/04, B60N2/22 {, B60N2/3002} take precedence) · CPC title

• B60N2/0837 Primary

  pivoting · CPC title

• B60N2/0818 Primary

  inside the rail · CPC title