Vehicle seat

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9694716-B2
Application number	US-201615217234-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 22, 2016
Priority date	Jul 31, 2015
Publication date	Jul 4, 2017
Grant date	Jul 4, 2017

Abstract

A vehicle seat includes: a front tilt mechanism including a front panel that is bridged between left and right side frames of a seat cushion and connected with the left and right side frames at connection points, the front panel being configured to pivot about the connection points in a height direction to adjust an angle of a seating surface of a front portion of the seat cushion; and an air conditioner mounted to the seat cushion, the air conditioner including: a slide mechanism that allows to change a distance between a front pivot-mounting part and a rear pivot-mounting part with a slide movement, wherein the air conditioner is bridged between the lower surface of the front panel and the cylindrical pipe and configured to allow the front panel of the front tilt mechanism to pivot about the connection points with a slide movement of the slide mechanism.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle seat comprising:
a front tilt mechanism that includes a front panel that is bridged between left and right side frames of a seat cushion and connected with the left and right side frames at connection points, the front panel being configured to pivot about the connection points in a height direction to adjust an angle of a seating surface of a front portion of the seat cushion; and
an air conditioner that is mounted to the seat cushion, the air conditioner including:
a front pivot-mounting part that is pivotally mounted to a lower surface of the front panel;
a rear pivot-mounting part that is pivotally mounted to a cylindrical pipe that is bridged between the left and right side frames; and
a slide mechanism that allows to change a distance between the front pivot-mounting part and the rear pivot-mounting part with a slide movement,

wherein the air conditioner is bridged between the lower surface of the front panel and the cylindrical pipe and configured to allow the front panel of the front tilt mechanism to pivot about the connection points with the slide movement of the slide mechanism.

2. The vehicle seat according to claim 1 ,
wherein the slide mechanism includes a first side member and a second side member that are assembled to be slidable relative to each other, and is configured such that the first side member is locked to the second side member at both ends so as to prevent the first side member from being removed from the second side member in the height direction, and that the first side member is assembled to the second side member in a state of being narrowed in a lateral direction of the seat by a guide having a width thicker than that of the both ends at a central portion in the lateral direction.

3. The vehicle seat according to claim 2 ,
wherein the first side member of the slide mechanism is configured to be in partial contact with the second side member with respect to the height direction with a stripe-shaped protrusion that extends in a slide direction and protrudes in the height direction from a lateral partial portion of either the first side member or the second side member toward the other side member.

4. The vehicle seat according to claim 1 ,
wherein the rear pivot-mounting part includes a C-shaped hook fitted over an outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical pipe, with a sliding protrusion provided on an inner circumferential surface of the hook, the sliding protrusion being in partial contact with the cylindrical pipe.

Assignees

• Toyota Boshoku Kk

Inventors

• Masuda Hideo

Classifications

• B60N2/62

  Thigh-rests {(B60N2/914 takes precedence)} · CPC title

• B60N2/565 Primary

  sucked from the seat surface · CPC title

• B60N2/02 Primary

  the seat or part thereof being movable, e.g. adjustable (adjustable arm-rests B60N2/75; adjustable head-rests B60N2/806) · CPC title

• B60N2/56 Primary

  Heating or ventilating devices · CPC title

• B60N2/20

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