Vehicle seat

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10144312-B2
Application number	US-201615280193-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 29, 2016
Priority date	Oct 1, 2015
Publication date	Dec 4, 2018
Grant date	Dec 4, 2018

Abstract

A vehicle seat includes: a seating portion configured to support a seated occupant in a seating posture; a shell portion configured to cover the circumference of the seating portion including side portions of the seated occupant from a rear side of the occupant; a first moving device that is configured to move a relative position of the seating portion with respect to a vehicle; and a second moving device that is configured to move a relative position of the shell portion with respect to the seating portion, the second moving device being configured to move at least side portions of the shell portion to a first position at which the side portions of the seated occupant is covered by the shell portion and to a second position at which the side portions of the seated occupant is uncovered by the shell portion.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle seat comprising:
a seating portion including a seat cushion portion and a seat back portion;
a shell portion configured to cover the seating portion from a back side to two opposite side portions of the seating portion; and
a moving mechanism that is configured to change a reclining angle, which is an angle of the seat back portion relative to the seat cushion portion, to be in two or more modes including a normal mode and a comfort mode, wherein
the reclining angle of the seat back portion in the normal mode is less than the reclining angle of the seat back portion in the comfort mode, and
the moving mechanism includes:
a first rotatable recliner that changes the reclining angle of the seat back portion of the seating portion relative to the seat cushion portion; and
a second rotatable recliner that changes an angle of the shell portion relative to the seat back portion and the seat cushion portion by rotating the shell portion to recline rearward in a state where the seat back portion is in the comfort mode.

2. The vehicle seat according to claim 1 further comprising:
a separation regulator that regulates a relative spaced distance between the seating portion and the shell portion caused by the movement of the shell portion with respect to the seating portion by a predetermined amount.

3. The vehicle seat according to claim 2 , wherein
the separation regulator includes:
a first detector that detects a movement position of the seating portion due to the first rotatable recliner;
a second detector that detects a movement position of the shell portion due to the second rotatable recliner; and
a movement inhibitor that stops the movement of the shell portion due to the second rotatable recliner when the movement position of the shell portion detected by the second detector is detected to move in a direction away from the movement position of the seating portion detected by the first detector by a predetermined amount or more.

4. The vehicle seat according to claim 3 , wherein
the first detector detects the movement position of the seating portion due to a rotation position of a first motor that is configured to drive the first rotatable recliner, and
a second detector detects the movement position of the shell portion due to a rotation position of a second motor that is configured to drive the second rotatable recliner.

5. The vehicle seat according to claim 2 , wherein
when the movement of the shell portion is not regulated by the separation regulator, the seat back portion is movable forwardly relative to the shell portion, and
when the movement of the shell portion is regulated by the separation regulator, the shell portion is prevented from being spaced apart from the seat back portion.

6. The vehicle seat according to claim 1 , wherein
the seat back portion includes an occupant seating surface that that is configured to support a seat occupant in the seating portion, the occupant seating surface having a recessed curved surface, and
in a state in which the shell portion integrally overlaps the seating portion in the longitudinal direction, the shell portion has a curved surface extending in a lateral direction of the vehicle seat that conforms with a curved surface of the seating portion that extends in the lateral direction and that includes the recessed curved surface.

7. The vehicle seat according to claim 1 , wherein
the seating portion and the shell portion are configured separately from each other.

8. The vehicle seat according to claim 1 , wherein
a rotational center of the second rotatable recliner is spaced rearwardly and downwardly from a rotational center of the first rotatable recliner.

9. The vehicle seat according to claim 1 , wherein
the second rotatable recliner is configured to rotate at least side portions of the shell portion to a first position at which the side portions of the shell portion and a seating surface of the seating portion integrally overlap in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle seat, and to a second position at which the side portions of the shell portion are spaced relative to the seating surface of the seating portion in the longitudinal direction.

Assignees

• Toyota Boshoku Kk

Inventors

• Akaike Fumitoshi
• Kaneda Koji

Classifications

• B61D33/0021

  for adjustable or reclining seats · CPC title

• B64D11/064

  Adjustable inclination or position of seats · CPC title

• B60N2/68

  Seat frames · CPC title

• B60N2/865

  providing a fore-and-aft movement with respect to the occupant's head · CPC title

• B61D33/00

  Seats · CPC title