Vehicle seat

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10532669-B2
Application number	US-201816130301-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 13, 2018
Priority date	Oct 10, 2017
Publication date	Jan 14, 2020
Grant date	Jan 14, 2020

Abstract

There is provided a vehicle seat that includes: a waist movement suppressing member that is disposed at a seat front side and a seat upper side of a seat cushion, and that extends in a seat width direction; movable members that support both end portions of the waist movement suppressing member movably in a seat vertical direction; urging members that urge the movable members toward a seat upper side; raising mechanisms that, at a time of sudden braking or at a time a collision is predicted, move the waist movement suppressing member toward the seat upper side; and stoppers that limit movement, toward a seat lower side, of the waist movement suppressing member that has been moved toward the seat upper side by the raising mechanisms.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle seat comprising:
a waist movement suppressing member that is disposed at a seat front side and a seat upper side of a seat cushion, and that extends in a seat width direction;
movable members that movably support both end portions of the waist movement suppressing member in a seat vertical direction;
urging members that urge the movable members toward a seat upper side;
raising mechanisms that, at a time of sudden braking or at a time a collision is predicted, move the waist movement suppressing member toward the seat upper side; and
stoppers that limit movement, toward a seat lower side, of the waist movement suppressing member that has been moved toward the seat upper side by the raising mechanisms.

2. The vehicle seat of claim 1 , wherein:
each movable member is provided within a case so as to be movable in the seat vertical direction; and
each raising mechanism is structured to include a plate-shaped member that is disposed within the case further toward the seat lower side than its corresponding movable member, and an actuator that moves the plate-shaped member toward the seat upper side.

3. The vehicle seat of claim 2 , wherein:
each stopper is structured to include a projection that is provided at an inner wall of the case so as to project-out; and
the projection is configured to support the plate-shaped member that has moved toward the seat upper side, and a seat lower side surface of the projection is an inclined surface that, from a distal end side to a base side, is inclined toward the seat lower side.

4. The vehicle seat of claim 1 , wherein:
each raising mechanism is structured to include a moving body that is provided so as to be movable in a seat front-rear direction, and an actuator that moves the moving body; and
an inclined portion, which supports the waist movement suppressing member from the seat lower side and moves the waist movement suppressing member in the seat vertical direction accompanying movement of the moving body, is formed at the moving body.

5. The vehicle seat of claim 4 , wherein each stopper is structured to include a ledge portion that is horizontal, that is formed at an upper end of the inclined portion, and that is continuous with the inclined portion.

6. The vehicle seat of claim 4 , wherein a lower end portion of the inclined portion is a curved shaped that bulges-out toward the seat lower side.

7. The vehicle seat of claim 1 , wherein:
each movable member is structured to include a rotating member that is configured to rotate around a rotation shaft whose axial direction is a seat width direction; and
each raising mechanism is structured to include an actuator that, by rotating the rotating member, moves the waist movement suppressing member toward the seat upper side.

8. The vehicle seat of claim 7 , wherein:
the actuator is structured to include an electric motor;
a motor shaft of the electric motor is connected to the rotating member; and
due to the electric motor being driven, the rotating member is rotated and the waist movement suppressing member is moved toward the seat upper side.

9. The vehicle seat of claim 7 , wherein:
each stopper is provided so as to be movable in a seat width direction from a non-anchoring position, at which the stopper does not overlap the rotating member as seen from a seat front-rear direction, to an anchoring position, at which the stopper overlaps the rotating member as seen from the seat front-rear direction; and
in a state in which the waist movement suppressing member is moved toward the seat upper side by the actuator, the stopper moves to the anchoring position and limits rotation of the rotating member.

10. The vehicle seat of claim 1 , further comprising a returning mechanism that moves the waist movement suppressing member, that has been moved toward the seat upper side, toward the seat lower side again.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kitagawa Yuichi

Classifications

• B60N2/427 Primary

  Seats or parts thereof displaced during a crash · CPC title

• B60N2/4279

  electric or electronic triggering · CPC title

• B60N2/42772

  characterised by the triggering system · CPC title

• B60N2/42763 Primary

  with anti-submarining systems · CPC title

• B60N2/165 Primary

  Gear wheel driven mechanism · CPC title