Vehicular seat

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9434341-B2
Application number	US-201414763779-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 12, 2014
Priority date	Feb 12, 2013
Publication date	Sep 6, 2016
Grant date	Sep 6, 2016

Abstract

In a vehicular seat, a side airbag module and a side support bladder are arranged inside a shell frame that constitutes a skeleton of a seat back. A base bracket of a support body is disposed between the side support bladder and the side airbag module. This base bracket is supported by the shell frame. The base bracket supports the side support bladder from outside in a seat width direction at the time of inflation of the side support bladder, and is rotated inward in the seat width direction around a hinge together with the side support bladder due to an inflation pressure of a side airbag at the time of inflation and deployment of the side airbag.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicular seat comprising:
a side airbag device that inflates and deploys a side airbag with which a side airbag module that is provided in a side support portion of a seat back is equipped, forward of the side support portion with respect to the seat;
a side support adjustment mechanism that has an air bag that is provided in the side support portion inside the side airbag module in a seat width direction, and that inflates and contracts the air bag; and
a support body that is provided between the side airbag module and the air bag, that is supported by a skeleton of the seat back, that supports the air bag from outside in the seat width direction at a time of inflation of the air bag, and that is displaced inward in the seat width direction together with the air bag due to an inflation pressure of the side airbag at a time of inflation and deployment of the side airbag.

2. The vehicular seat according to claim 1 , wherein
the support body has an abutment portion that abuts on the skeleton of the seat back from inside in the seat width direction.

3. The vehicular seat according to claim 1 , wherein
the skeleton of the seat back is a shell frame having a rear wall portion that is arranged on a back face side of the seat back, and a lateral wall portion that extends forward with respect to the seat from an end portion of the rear wall portion in the seat width direction, and
the side airbag module and the air bag are arranged inside the lateral wall portion in the seat width direction.

4. The vehicular seat according to claim 1 , wherein
the support body has a fixed portion that is fixed to the skeleton of the seat back, and a movable portion that is coupled at an end portion thereof on a rear side with respect to the seat to the fixed portion via a hinge and that is arranged between the side airbag module and the air bag, and
the movable portion is allowed to rotate inward in the seat width direction around the hinge, and is restrained from rotating outward in the seat width direction around the hinge.

5. The vehicular seat according to claim 4 , wherein
the side support adjustment mechanism has a turning plate that is interposed between the air bag and a seat back pad in the side support portion, and
the turning plate is coupled at an end portion thereof on the rear side with respect to the seat to the fixed portion via the hinge.

6. The vehicular seat according to claim 1 , wherein
the side airbag module is equipped with an airbag case that accommodates the side airbag therein in a folded state, and
the support body is constituted by a part of the airbag case.

7. The vehicular seat according to claim 6 , wherein
the support body has an abutment portion that abuts on another part of the airbag case from inside in the seat width direction.

8. The vehicular seat according to claim 7 , wherein
the side support adjustment mechanism has a turning plate that is interposed between the air bag and a seat back pad in the side support portion, and
the turning plate is coupled to a hook shaft that is formed on a part of the support body, via a hook portion that is provided at an end portion of the turning plate on a rear side with respect to the seat.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kaneko Akira
• Tanaka Shunsuke

Classifications

• B60N2/68

  Seat frames · CPC title

• B60R2021/23146

  seat mounted · CPC title

• B60R2021/2178

  Plastic · CPC title

• B60R21/23138

  specially adapted for side protection (B60R21/23184, B60R21/232 take precedence) · CPC title

• B60R21/207 Primary

  in vehicle seats · CPC title