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Seat back of vehicle seat
US8939504B2 · US · B2
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Publication number | US-8939504-B2 |
| Application number | US-201414172652-A |
| Country | US |
| Kind code | B2 |
| Filing date | Feb 4, 2014 |
| Priority date | Mar 12, 2013 |
| Publication date | Jan 27, 2015 |
| Grant date | Jan 27, 2015 |
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A seat back of vehicle seat including: a seat back frame; a support wire element disposed in the seat back frame; a support plate attached to the support wire element such that an upper portion thereof projects upwardly from the support wire element; and a resilient reinforcing element provided to that upper portion of support wire element, thereby normally reinforcing such upper portion. The resilient reinforcing element has two upper end portions respectively slidably engaged with two brackets of the seat back frame and a main reinforcing portion which is resiliently extensible, while being resiliently deformable rearwardly of the seat back frame. Another resilient reinforcing element having a pair of reinforcing portions may be provided to a lower portion of the support wire element to normally reinforce such upper portion. Each of those two different reinforcing elements is resiliently deformable rearwardly by an excessive great load applied thereto.
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What is claimed is: 1. A seat back of a vehicle seat, which has a frontal surface facing to a forward side of the seat back, said frontal surface being adapted to receive a back portion of a seat occupant to be seated in the vehicle seat, comprising: a foam padding provided in said seat back, said foam padding including a padding portion disposed adjacent to said frontal surface of the seat back; a seat back frame so formed to have a space defined inwardly thereof, said seat bac…
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- B60N2/64Primary
Operations & Transport · mapped topic
- B60N2/4228Primary
Operations & Transport · mapped topic
Operations & Transport · mapped topic
Operations & Transport · mapped topic
Operations & Transport · mapped topic
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- What does patent US8939504B2 cover?
- A seat back of vehicle seat including: a seat back frame; a support wire element disposed in the seat back frame; a support plate attached to the support wire element such that an upper portion thereof projects upwardly from the support wire element; and a resilient reinforcing element provided to that upper portion of support wire element, thereby normally reinforcing such upper portion. The r…
- Who is the assignee on this patent?
- Abe Hiroshi, Miyaguchi Masato, Tachi S Co
- What technology area does this patent fall under?
- Primary CPC classification B60N2/64. Mapped technology areas include Operations & Transport.
- When was this patent published?
- Publication date Tue Jan 27 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) (B2). Legal status and post-grant events are not shown on this page.
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- We list 8 related publications on this page (citations in our corpus or others sharing the same primary CPC).