System and method of a thigh support and a seat for a vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10640023-B2
Application number	US-201716306486-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 27, 2017
Priority date	May 31, 2016
Publication date	May 5, 2020
Grant date	May 5, 2020

Abstract

A thigh support, a seat and a vehicle are provided. The thigh support includes a thigh-support fixing portion, a thigh-support moving portion, a thigh-support driving portion, and a thigh-support bracing portion disposed to the thigh-support fixing portion and located at a rear side of the thigh-support moving portion, in which the rear edge of the thigh-support moving portion is provided with a rear edge recessed portion recessed forwards, a front edge of the thigh-support bracing portion is formed with a front edge protruding portion protruding forwards, and the front edge protruding portion matches the rear edge recessed portion in shape. The seat and the vehicle have the above thigh support.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A thigh support for a seat, comprising:
a thigh-support fixing portion;
a thigh-support moving portion, a thigh-support guiding portion being provided between the thigh-support moving portion, and the thigh-support fixing portion, the thigh-support moving portion being able to move forwards and backwards relative to the thigh-support fixing portion under guidance of the thigh-support guiding portion, and the thigh-support moving portion having a forward limit position where it moves forwards to a limit position;
a thigh-support driving portion configured to drive the thigh-support moving portion to move forwards and backwards; and
a thigh-support bracing portion disposed to the thigh-support fixing portion and located at a rear side of the thigh-support moving portion, a part of the thigh-support bracing portion being flush with a rear edge of the thigh-support moving portion in the forward limit position, or a part of the thigh-support bracing portion being located in front of the rear edge of the thigh-support moving portion in the forward limit position,
wherein the rear edge of the thigh-support moving portion is provided with a rear edge recessed portion recessed forwards, a front edge of the thigh-support bracing portion is formed with a front edge protruding portion protruding forwards, and the front edge protruding portion matches the rear edge recessed portion in shape.

2. The thigh support according to claim 1 , wherein an upper surface of the thigh-support bracing portion is flush with an upper surface of the thigh-support moving portion.

3. The thigh support according to claim 1 , wherein when the thigh-support moving portion is in an initial position, the front edge protruding portion is embedded in the rear edge recessed portion, and the front edge of the thigh-support bracing portion abuts the rear edge of the thigh-support moving portion; when the thigh-support moving portion is in the forward limit position, the rear edge of the thigh-support moving portion is spaced apart from the front edge of the thigh-support bracing portion in the front-rear direction, and the front edge of the front edge protruding portion is flush with or located in front of the rear edge of the thigh-support moving portion.

4. The thigh support according to claim 1 , wherein the thigh-support bracing portion is configured as a support flat plate, and the front edge protruding portion is a trapezoidal plate integrally formed on a front edge of the support flat plate.

5. The thigh support according to claim 1 , wherein the front edge protruding portion is located in a middle of the thigh-support bracing portion in a left-right direction.

6. The thigh support according to claim 1 , wherein the thigh-support bracing portion is configured as a rollable retractable sheet having a fixed end and a moving end, the moving end of the retractable sheet is secured to the rear edge of the thigh-support moving portion, such that the thigh-support moving portion stretches the retractable sheet forwards by pulling the moving end of the retractable sheet when the thigh-support moving portion moves forwards.

7. The thigh support according to claim 6 , further comprising an elastic thigh-support bracing portion that is adapted to be elastically supported at a bottom of the stretched retractable sheet.

8. The thigh support according to claim 1 , wherein the thigh-support bracing portion is configured as a pleated plate having a plurality of pleated structures, the pleated plate has a fixed end and a moving end, and the moving end of the pleated plate is secured to the rear edge of the thigh-support moving portion, such that the thigh-support moving portion flattens the pleated plate by pulling the moving end of the pleated plate when the thigh-support moving portion moves forwards.

9. The thigh support according to claim 8 , further comprising an elastic thigh-support bracing portion that is adapted to be elastically supported at a bottom of the flattened pleated plate.

10. The thigh support according to claim 1 , further comprising two groups of thigh-support linkage structures spaced in a left-right direction, the thigh-support linkage structure comprising a thigh-support fixing portion connecting rod and a thigh-support moving portion connecting rod; an end of the thigh-support moving portion connecting rod is connected with the thigh-support moving portion, and the other end of the thigh-support moving portion connecting rod is pivotally connected with the thigh-support fixing portion connecting rod; an end of the thigh-support fixing portion connecting rod is pivotally connected with the thigh-support fixing portion, and a synchronizing rod is provided between the other end of the thigh-support fixing portion connecting rod in the left and the other end of the thigh-support fixing portion connecting rod in the right, wherein a lower end of the seat cover of the seat is secured to the synchronizing rod.

11. A seat, comprising:
a seat frame comprising:
a backrest frame comprising: an upper horizontal plate; a side panel disposed at each of left and right ends of the upper horizontal plate; and a lower horizontal plate connected between bottoms of two side panels;
a seat-cushion seat-basin assembly comprising: a seat cushion comprising seat-cushion side panels spaced apart in a left-right direction, a front linkage rod and a rear linkage rod being provided between two seat-cushion side panels and spaced apart in a front-rear direction, two ends of each linkage rod being provided with a connecting rod separately, and the connecting rod being adapted to be pivotally connected with a sliding rail; and a seat basin disposed at a front side of the seat cushion; and
at least one electrically actuated function module, disposed to the backrest frame or the seat-cushion seat-basin assembly, and comprising a shoulder adjustment mechanism, a backrest flank, a backrest-frame reclining mechanism, a seat-basin height-adjustment motor, a seat-basin flank, a seat-basin tilt adjustment motor, and a thigh support,
wherein the thigh support comprises:
a thigh-support fixing portion,
a thigh-support moving portion, a thigh-support guiding portion being provided between the thigh-support moving portion and the thigh-support fixing portion, the thigh-support moving portion being able to move forwards and backwards relative to the thigh-support fixing portion under guidance of the thigh-support guiding portion, and the thigh-support moving portion having a forward limit position where it moves forwards to a limit position,
a thigh-support driving portion configured to drive the thigh-support moving portion to move forwards and backwards, and
a thigh-support bracing portion disposed to the thigh-support fixing portion and located at a rear side of the thigh-support moving portion, a part of the thigh-support bracing portion being flush with a rear edge of the thigh-support moving portion in the forward limit position, or a part of the thigh-support bracing portion being located in front of the rear edge of the thigh-support moving portion in the forward limit position,
wherein the rear edge of the thigh-support moving portion is provided with a rear edge recessed portion recessed forwards, a front edge of the thigh-support bracing portion is formed with a front edge protruding portion protruding forwards, and the front edge protruding portion matches the rear edge recessed portion in shape.

12. The seat according to claim 11 , wherein the side panel is provided with a side-panel upper recess and a side-panel lower recess that are spaced apart in an up-down direction, and the side-panel upper recess has a l

Assignees

• Great Wall Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Zhang Yawei
• Zheng Chuanqi
• Zhang Xu
• Li Pengfei
• Tong Jiashuo
• Zhai Yudong

Classifications

• B60N2/99

  adjustable · CPC title

• B60N2/838

  Tiltable · CPC title

• B60N2/62 Primary

  Thigh-rests {(B60N2/914 takes precedence)} · CPC title

• B60N2/68

  Seat frames · CPC title

• B60N2/06

  slidable (B60N2/12 {, B60N2/2209} take precedence) · CPC title