Vehicle seat

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10773674-B2
Application number	US-201816176468-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 31, 2018
Priority date	Dec 8, 2017
Publication date	Sep 15, 2020
Grant date	Sep 15, 2020

Abstract

A vehicle seat includes a seat back including a movable portion that supports an occupant and moves in a vehicle width direction with respect to a main body frame due to a load in a seat width direction, a hard resin material that is provided at a left and right pair of side portions of the seat back and is capable of crushing deformation at a time of a vehicle side impact, and a seat cover that covers a surface of the hard resin material.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle seat comprising:
a seat back comprising a movable frame that supports an occupant, and that moves in a vehicle width direction with respect to a main body frame due to a load in a seat width direction when a rotation force acts on the occupant due to a vehicle traveling by turning;
a hard resin material that is provided at a left and right pair of side portions of the seat back, and that is capable of crushing deformation at a time of a vehicle side impact; and
a seat cover that covers a surface of the hard resin material; and
a side airbag device comprising a side airbag that inflates and deploys at the time of a vehicle side impact and accommodated at an interior of one or both of the side portions of the seat back; wherein
at least a rear side of the side airbag device is covered by the hard resin material.

2. A vehicle seat comprising:
a seat back comprising a movable portion that supports an occupant, and that moves in a vehicle width direction with respect to a main body frame due to a load in a seat width direction;
a hard resin material that is provided at a left and right pair of side portions of the seat back, and that is capable of crushing deformation at a time of a vehicle side impact; and
a seat cover that covers a surface of the hard resin material;
a side airbag device comprising a side airbag that inflates and deploys at the time of a vehicle side impact and accommodated at an interior of one or both of the side portions of the seat back; wherein
at least a rear side of the side airbag device is covered by the hard resin material, and the hard resin material comprises:
an inner side resin-formed portion positioned at an occupant side and covering a periphery of the side airbag device;
an outer side resin-formed portion positioned at a non-occupant side and covering the periphery of the side airbag device;
a support portion that is formed at a portion of the inner side resin-formed portion and that protrudes toward the occupant side to support the occupant; and
a reaction force face that is formed at a portion of the outer side resin-formed portion, that covers a seat front-rear direction rear side of the side airbag device, and that generates a reaction force at a time of inflation and deployment of the side airbag.

3. The vehicle seat according to claim 2 , wherein a tear portion, at which a portion of the seat cover covering the inner side resin-formed portion and a portion of the seat cover covering the outer side resin-formed portion overlap with each other and are sewn together, is provided at a seat front-rear direction front of the side airbag device.

4. The vehicle seat according to claim 2 , wherein the movable portion is provided at a seat front-rear direction rear side of the support portion.

5. The vehicle seat according to claim 2 , wherein the inner side resin-formed portion and the outer side resin-formed portion are integrally connected with each other at the seat front-rear direction rear side of the side airbag device.

6. The vehicle seat according to claim 5 , wherein the connection portion in which the inner side resin-formed portion and the outer side resin-formed portion are integrally connected to each other is formed of an integral hinge.

7. The vehicle seat according to claim 2 , wherein the hard resin material includes at least one hollow portion that is formed in a hollow shape.

8. The vehicle seat according to claim 2 , wherein:
the inner side resin-formed portion includes one hollow portion that is formed in a hollow shape; and
the outer side resin-formed portion includes another hollow portion that is formed in a hollow shape.

9. The vehicle seat according to claim 8 , wherein the outer hollow portion includes a protrusion portion that protrudes to the vehicle width direction inner side of the reaction force face, and the protrusion portion is arranged on the rear side of the inner side wall portion of the main body frame, which is formed in an L shape in a cross-sectional view in the vehicle width direction.

10. A vehicle seat comprising:
a seat back comprising a movable portion that supports an occupant, and that moves in a vehicle width direction with respect to a main body frame due to a load in a seat width direction;
a hard resin material that is provided at a left and right pair of side portions of the seat back, and that is capable of crushing deformation at a time of a vehicle side impact; and
a seat cover that covers a surface of the hard resin material;
a side airbag device comprising a side airbag that inflates and deploys at the time of a vehicle side impact and accommodated at an interior of one or both of the side portions of the seat back; wherein
at least a rear side of the side airbag device is covered by the hard resin material;
the hard resin material is configured from a single resin-formed portion positioned at an occupant side of the side airbag device; and
a tear portion, at which a front end portion of the seat cover covering the resin-formed portion and a front end portion of the seat cover covering the side airbag device overlap with each other and are sewn together, is provided at a seat front-rear direction front side portion of the resin-formed portion.

11. A vehicle seat comprising:
a seat back comprising a movable portion that supports an occupant, and that moves in a vehicle width direction with respect to a main body frame due to a load in a seat width direction;
a hard resin material that is provided at a left and right pair of side portions of the seat back, and that is capable of crushing deformation at a time of a vehicle side impact; and
a seat cover that covers a surface of the hard resin material;
a side airbag device comprising a side airbag that inflates and deploys at the time of a vehicle side impact and accommodated at an interior of one or both of the side portions of the seat back; wherein
at least a rear side of the side airbag device is covered by the hard resin material, and
the side airbag device and the hard resin material are pre-configured as a module a stud bolt attached to the side airbag device being inserted through an attachment hole that is formed at the hard resin material and by front end portions of the seat cover covering the hard resin material being sewn together.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Hioda Seiji

Classifications

• B60R21/207 Primary

  in vehicle seats · CPC title

• B60R21/231

  characterised by their shape, construction or spatial configuration · CPC title

• B60R21/2165

  characterised by a tear line for defining a deployment opening · CPC title

• B60N2/4235

  transversal · CPC title

• B60R2021/2076

  Removable covers with tear seams · CPC title