Vehicle seat

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9656578-B2
Application number	US-201514718657-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 21, 2015
Priority date	May 23, 2014
Publication date	May 23, 2017
Grant date	May 23, 2017

Abstract

A vehicle seat including: a tilt down mechanism configured to sink down a seat cushion in conjunction with forward tilting down movement of a seat back, wherein the tilt down mechanism couples a rear part of the seat cushion to a base on a floor by a rotary shaft, couples a front part of the seat cushion to the base via a front link, and further includes a power transmission member that couples the front link and the seat back, and wherein the power transmission member is configured by a link member of a rigid body and is configured to, when the seat back is raised from a forward tilted down position, transmit the movement of the seat back to the front link to raise the front link to thus pull up the seat cushion from a downward sunk position.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle seat comprising:
a seat back;
a seat cushion having a front part and a rear part;
a tilt down mechanism including:
a first rotary shaft that couples the rear part of the seat cushion to a base on a floor;
a front link that couples the front part of the seat cushion to the base; and
a power transmission member that couples the front link and the seat back, the power transmission member including a rigid link member; and

a second rotary shaft that connects the seat back to the base on the floor, wherein
the power transmission member tilts the front link downward in conjunction with a forward tilting down movement of the seat back around the second rotary shaft, thereby sinking down the front part of the seat cushion about the first rotary shaft, and
the power transmission member is configured to transmit a movement of the seat back from a forward titled down position to the front link to raise the front link and pull up the seat cushion from a downward sunk position.

2. The vehicle seat according to claim 1 , wherein
the power transmission member is configured to transmit the forward tilting down movement of the seat back to the front link as a tilting down force based upon the seat back being disposed within a tilting down region in front of a predetermined forward tilting angle at which the seat back is in front of an adjustment region of a backrest angle, and
the power transmission member is configured to release power transmission from the seat back to the front link based upon the seat back being disposed within a region rear to the tilting down region.

3. The vehicle seat according to claim 2 , wherein the power transmission member comprises:
a first link rotatably coupled to the seat back and extending downward:, and
a second link rotatably coupled to the front link and extending rearward, wherein
the first link and the second link are rotatably coupled to each other so as to be configured to transmit the movement of the seat back to the front link.

4. The vehicle seat according to claim 3 , wherein
the first link includes a hole and the base includes a support shaft that is vertically slidable within the hole and thereby rotatably coupled to the first link.

5. The vehicle seat according to claim 1 , wherein the power transmission member comprises:
a first link rotatably coupled to the seat back and extending downward; and
a second link rotatably coupled to the front link and extending rearward, wherein
the first link and the second link are rotatably coupled to each other so as to be configured to transmit the movement of the seat back to the front link.

6. The vehicle seat according to claim 5 , wherein
the first link includes a hole and the base includes a support shaft that is vertically slidable within the hole and thereby rotatably coupled to the first link.

7. The vehicle seat according to claim 1 , wherein
the second rotary shaft extends through the seat back and the base.

Assignees

• Toyota Boshoku Kk

Inventors

• Mitsuhashi Atsutaka

Classifications

• B60N2/12

  slidable and tiltable · CPC title

• B60N2/3093

  slides · CPC title

• B60N2/305

  the cushion being hinged on the vehicle frame · CPC title

• B60N2/3009

  about transversal axis · CPC title

• B60N2/3075

  stowed in recess (B60N2/3079 takes precedence) · CPC title