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

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12257933-B2
Application number	US-202418643450-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 23, 2024
Priority date	May 31, 2019
Publication date	Mar 25, 2025
Grant date	Mar 25, 2025

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 seat device that includes a rotation mechanism that has a rotating member having mounted thereon a seat cushion frame supporting a seat cushion and a base member rotatably supporting the rotating member from below,
wherein at least part, along a peripheral direction, of an outer periphery of an upper part of the rotating member is covered by a cover from the outside, and
wherein, in a state in which an occupant seated on the seat cushion faces forward in the vehicle fore-and-aft direction, a skin of the seat cushion is linked to a rear edge of an upper end part of the rotating member while being in contact with an outer face of the cover.

2. A vehicle seat device that includes a rotation mechanism that has a rotating member having mounted thereon a seat cushion frame supporting a seat cushion and a base member rotatably supporting the rotating member from below,
wherein at least part, along a peripheral direction, of an outer periphery of an upper part of the rotating member is covered by a cover from the outside,
wherein an outside face of the cover is formed into an arc shape that protrudes toward the outside of the rotating member.

3. The vehicle seat device according to claim 2 , wherein, in a state in which an occupant seated on the seat cushion faces forward in the vehicle fore-and-aft direction, a fixed cover member that covers at least the base member from the rear is fixedly disposed beneath the cover, and
wherein the fixed cover member is formed so as to be in relatively slidable contact with a lower part of the cover in a state in which an occupant seated on the seat cushion faces forward in the vehicle fore-and-aft direction.

4. The vehicle seat device according to claim 2 , wherein the cover is disposed at a position in which the cover covers the outer periphery of the upper part of the rotating member from a rear in a state in which an occupant seated on the seat cushion faces forward in a vehicle fore-and-aft direction.

5. The vehicle seat device according to claim 2 , wherein the seat cushion frame has a pair of side frames that extend linearly and are supported on the rotating member, and the cover is mounted on the side frames.

6. The vehicle seat device according to claim 2 , wherein the cover is formed by extending a skin of the seat cushion.

7. The vehicle seat device according to claim 2 , wherein the cover is formed integrally with at least one of the pair of side covers.

8. A vehicle seat device that includes a rotation mechanism that has a rotating member having mounted thereon a seat cushion frame supporting a seat cushion and a base member rotatably supporting the rotating member from below,
wherein at least part, along a peripheral direction, of an outer periphery of an upper part of the rotating member is covered by a cover from the outside,
wherein the seat cushion frame has a pair of side frames that extend linearly and are supported on the rotating member, and
wherein the lower end position of a side cover covering the side frame from the outside is set at the same height as the lower end position of the cover.

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