Vehicle seat with a rotatable belt guide

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9682682-B2
Application number	US-201514662592-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 19, 2015
Priority date	Mar 24, 2014
Publication date	Jun 20, 2017
Grant date	Jun 20, 2017

Abstract

There is provided a vehicle seat including: a seat main body including a seating portion, a seat back that supports an upper body of the vehicle occupant seated on the seating portion, and a headrest that is provided at an upper side of the seat back and supports a head portion of the vehicle occupant; a seatbelt that restrains the upper body of the vehicle occupant with respect to the seat back; a belt guide portion that is provided at an upper portion of the seat back or at the headrest, and through which the seatbelt is inserted, and that guides the seatbelt; and a rotating portion that, following movement of a shoulder portion of the vehicle occupant, changes a direction of guiding the seatbelt by rotating the belt guide portion by external force applied due to tension of the seatbelt.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle seat comprising:
a seat main body that is structured to include a seating portion configured for a vehicle occupant to sit on, a seat back configured to support an upper body of the vehicle occupant when the vehicle occupant is seated on the seating portion, and a headrest that is provided at an upper side of the seat back and configured to support a head portion of the vehicle occupant;
a seatbelt configured to restrain the upper body of the vehicle occupant with respect to the seat back when the vehicle occupant is seated on the seating portion;
a belt guide portion that is provided at an upper portion of the seat back or at the headrest, and through which the seatbelt is inserted, and that guides the seatbelt; and
a rotating portion that, following movement of a shoulder portion of the vehicle occupant whose upper body is restrained by the seatbelt, changes a direction of guiding the seatbelt by rotating the belt guide portion by external force that is applied due to tension of the seatbelt,
wherein the rotating portion extends in a vehicle vertical direction through a slide portion formed in a base portion, the slide portion being a hole elongating in a vehicle transverse direction, such that, following movement of the shoulder portion of the vehicle occupant whose upper body is restrained by the seatbelt, the belt guide portion is able to slide at least along the vehicle transverse direction.

2. The vehicle seat of claim 1 , wherein the rotating portion includes a shaft portion that rotates the belt guide portion around an axis that runs at least along the vehicle vertical direction.

3. The vehicle seat of claim 1 , further comprising a first swinging portion that swings the seat back around a first axis that runs along a vehicle longitudinal direction.

4. The vehicle seat of claim 1 , further comprising a swinging portion that swings the seating portion around a axis that runs along a vehicle longitudinal direction.

5. The vehicle seat of claim 1 , wherein the belt guide portion is structured to include:
a pair of wall portions that are disposed so as to face one another, and that restrict movement of the seatbelt in a belt transverse direction;
hook portions that extend in directions of approaching one another from upper end portions of the wall portions; and
inclined surfaces that are formed at facing regions of the pair of wall portions, and that are inclined in directions of moving away from one another while heading toward a vehicle longitudinal direction rear side.

6. The vehicle seat of claim 1 ,
wherein the rotating portion comprises a shaft portion, with respect to which the belt guide portion is able to rotate;
and
wherein the shaft portion is able to slide within the slide portion.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Aoki Norihisa
• Katoh Kohshi
• Takeuchi Eishi

Classifications

• B60N2002/905

  the head-rest or seat used as an anchorage point, for an object not covered by groups in B60N, e.g. for a canvas · CPC title

• B60N2002/022

  the seat or seat part turning about or moving along a vertical axis · CPC title

• B60R22/20 Primary

  adjustable in position, e.g. in height · CPC title

• B60R2022/1831

  comprising a slotted plate sliding in its plane, e.g. inside circular guides · CPC title

• B60R22/26

  secured to the seat · CPC title