Seat apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9586502-B2
Application number	US-201514630154-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 24, 2015
Priority date	Mar 25, 2014
Publication date	Mar 7, 2017
Grant date	Mar 7, 2017

Abstract

A seat apparatus includes a lower arm including one of an internal gear and an external gear, an upper arm including the other of the internal gear and the external gear, a lock member restricting and allowing a movement of a seat; a lever being rotatably connected to the lower arm, the lever being linked with an operation of the lock member to restrict the movement; and a transmission portion disposed between the lower arm and the upper arm, the transmission portion transmitting a rotation of the upper arm which corresponds to a forward inclination of a seatback to the lever by absorbing an eccentricity of the internal gear and the external gear.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A seat apparatus, comprising:
a seat;
a seat cushion of the seat;
a seatback of the seat;
a lower arm being fixed to the seat cushion, the lower arm including one of an internal gear and an external gear which includes teeth fewer than teeth of the internal gear, the external gear eccentrically meshing with the internal gear, the internal gear having a first center and the external gear having a second center;
an upper arm being fixed to the seatback, the upper arm including the other of the internal gear and the external gear;
a lock member being supported at the seat cushion, the lock member restricting and allowing a movement of the seat;
a lever being coaxially disposed with one of the internal gear and the external gear provided at the lower arm, the lever being rotatably connected to the lower arm, the lever being linked with an operation of the lock member to restrict the movement; and
a transmission portion disposed between the lower arm and the upper arm, the transmission portion transmitting a rotation of the upper arm which corresponds to a forward inclination of the seatback to the lever by absorbing an eccentricity of the internal gear and the external gear, the transmission portion including a protrusion protruding from the upper arm and including a recessed portion provided at the lever, wherein
the recessed portion is disposed on a straight line that connects the first center to the second center, and
a recessed amount of the recess portion toward the first center is set larger than an opening width of the recessed portion in a circumferential direction relative to the first center.

2. The seat apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the lever serves as a first lever;
the seat apparatus further comprising:
a second lever being rotatably connected to the lower arm, the second lever disposed on a rotation trajectory of a rotation of the first lever, the rotation corresponding to the forward inclination of the seatback; and
a release portion being disposed between the first lever and the second lever; wherein
the first lever rotates the second lever in accordance with the rotation of the first lever to operate the lock member to allow the movement; and
the release portion releases the second lever from the rotation of the first lever in a case where a rotary amount of the rotation of the first lever, the rotation corresponding to the forward inclination of the seatback exceeds a predetermined amount.

3. A seat apparatus, comprising:
a seat;
a seat cushion of the seat;
a seatback of the seat;
a lower arm being fixed to the seat cushion, the lower arm including one of an internal gear and an external gear which includes teeth fewer than teeth of the internal gear, the external gear eccentrically meshing with the internal gear, the internal gear having a first center and the external gear having a second center;
an upper arm being fixed to the seatback, the upper arm including the other of the internal gear and the external gear;
a lock member being supported at the seat cushion, the lock member restricting and allowing a movement of the seat;
a lever being coaxially disposed with one of the internal gear and the external gear provided at the lower arm, the lever being rotatably connected to the lower arm, the lever being linked with an operation of the lock member to restrict the movement; and
a transmission portion disposed between the lower arm and the upper arm, the transmission portion transmitting a rotation of the upper arm which corresponds to a forward inclination of the seatback to the lever by absorbing an eccentricity of the internal gear and the external gear, the transmission portion including a protrusion protruding from the lever and including a recessed portion provided at the upper arm, wherein
the recessed portion is disposed on a straight line that connects the first center to the second center.

Assignees

• Aisin Seiki

Inventors

• Matsufuji Tomio
• Hattori Takashi

Classifications

• B60N2/20 Primary

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

• B60N2/2252

  in which the central axis of the gearing lies inside the periphery of an orbital gear, e.g. one gear without sun gear · CPC title

• B60N2/12 Primary

  slidable and tiltable · CPC title