Rotating device for vehicle interior item, and rotating device for vehicle seat

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12012019-B2
Application number	US-202318354236-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 18, 2023
Priority date	May 31, 2019
Publication date	Jun 18, 2024
Grant date	Jun 18, 2024

Abstract

A rotating device for a vehicle interior item is provided with latching means that is provided on a side of a base member having a rotation support part, and engagement means that is provided on a side of a rotating member supporting a vehicle interior item and being rotatably supported by the rotation support part, and can be switched between a state in which the engagement means engages with the latching means so as to suppress detachment of the rotating member from the base member and a state in which the engagement with the latching means is released when the rotating member attains the rotatable state, wherein the latching means and the engagement means are disposed further outside than the rotating member in plan view at least when the rotating member is in the non-rotating state. Accordingly, it is possible to suppress an increase in the height while suppressing detachment when the vehicle interior item is not rotating.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A vehicle rotating seat device, comprising a seat frame that supports a seat main body, a rotating member that supports the seat frame, a base member that rotatably supports the rotating member from below, and an electrical component that is mounted on at least one of the seat frame and the rotating member,
wherein an electric wire connected to the electrical component is retained by an electric wire retaining member that is fixedly disposed at a center of rotation of the rotating member.

2. The vehicle rotating seat device according to claim 1 , wherein a plurality of the electric wires individually connected to a plurality of the electrical components are retained collectively by the single electric wire retaining member.

3. The vehicle rotating seat device according to claim 1 , wherein a cushion-side pressure-receiving member that receives a load from above a seat cushion forming part of the seat main body is mounted on a seat cushion frame that forms part of the seat frame and is supported on the rotating member, and the electric wire retaining member is disposed at a position in which the electric wire is retained beneath the cushion-side pressure-receiving member.

4. The vehicle rotating seat device according to claim 3 , wherein the electric wire retaining member is mounted directly on the cushion-side pressure-receiving member.

5. The vehicle rotating seat device according to claim 1 , wherein the cushion-side pressure-receiving member, which receives a load from above the seat cushion forming part of the seat main body, is mounted on the cushion frame, which forms part of the seat frame and is supported on the rotating member, and the electric wire retaining member is mounted directly on the cushion-side pressure-receiving member.

6. The vehicle rotating seat device according to claim 3 , wherein the seat frame comprises the seat cushion frame, which is supported on the rotating member, and a seat back frame that is tiltably mounted on the seat cushion frame or the rotating member via a support shaft, an electric actuator for tilting, which is the electrical component, is mounted on a lower part of the seat back frame so that the seat back frame can be driven so as to tilt, and the electric wire connected to the electric actuator for tilting is retained by the electric wire retaining member via an intermediate retaining member mounted on the seat back frame or the rotating member in the vicinity of the support shaft.

7. The vehicle rotating seat device according to claim 3 , wherein a retaining member-supporting member is mounted on the base member, and the electric wire retaining member is mounted on the retaining member-supporting member.

8. The vehicle rotating seat device according to claim 7 , wherein the electric wire retaining member retains the electric wires above the retaining member-supporting member and is mounted on the retaining member-supporting member.

9. The vehicle rotating seat device according to claim 7 , wherein the electric wire retaining member retains the electric wires beneath the retaining member-supporting member and is mounted on the retaining member-supporting member.

Assignees

• Ts Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Mochizuki Haruki
• Miyoshi Akira
• Kaneda Takuji
• Abe Hirohisa

Classifications

• B60N2/02246

  Electric motors therefor · CPC title

• B60N2/20 Primary

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

• B60N2/12

  slidable and tiltable · CPC title

• B60N2/0264

  characterised by the type of electrical connection, e.g. wiring, plugs or USB · CPC title

• B60N2/14

  rotatable, e.g. to permit easy access (B60N2/10 {, B60N2/2869} take precedence) · CPC title