Seat structure of vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9783087-B2
Application number	US-201514793179-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 7, 2015
Priority date	Jul 8, 2014
Publication date	Oct 10, 2017
Grant date	Oct 10, 2017

Abstract

A headrest which supports a head portion of a passenger in a vehicle rear collision is attached to an upper portion of a frame of a seatback. A blower to perform ventilation for a passenger's back is arranged at the upper portion of the frame at a position below the headrest. The blower is held at the frame via attaching members, for example. When receiving a large rearward-load from the passenger in the vehicle rear collision, the blower moves rearward relatively to the frame and the headrest according to a rearward move (a rearward swing around an upper frame, particularly) of the attaching member and the like.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A seat structure of a vehicle provided with a seatback, comprising:
a frame of the seatback, the frame including an upper frame extending in a vehicle width direction;
a headrest;
a pair of right-and-left headrest holding members to hold the headrest, the headrest holding members being fixed to the upper frame of the frame of the seatback:
an attaching member, an upper end portion of which is rotatably attached around the upper frame at a position between the pair of right-and-left headrest holding members and which comprises a downward extension portion extending downward from the upper end portion:
a vent portion arranged at a back face of the seatback; and
a blower to perform ventilation through the vent portion, the blower being attached to the downward extension portion of the attaching member,
wherein said upper end portion of the attaching member is provided with a restriction portion to restrict relative rotation of the attaching member to said upper frame,
said blower is configured to be movable rearward relative to the frame of the seatback and the headrest in accordance with rotation of said downward extension portion of the attaching member around the upper frame when receiving a large rearward-load from a passenger seated in the seat in a vehicle rear collision, and
wherein said rearward-moving configuration of the blower is achieved by releasing said relative-rotation restriction when the blower receives the large rearward-load from the passenger seating in the seat in the vehicle rear collision.

2. The vehicle structure of the vehicle of claim 1 , wherein said restriction portion comprises a pair of parts which are in engagement relation with each other, and said releasing of the relative-rotation restriction of the restriction portion is achieved when said engagement relation of the pair of parts is broken.

3. The seat structure of the vehicle of claim 2 , wherein said pair of parts of the restriction portion comprise a hole and a protrusion portion which is configured to be inserted into the hole, either one of which is formed on the side of said downward extension portion of the attaching member and the other of which is formed on the side of said upper frame of the frame of the seatback, and said protrusion portion is configured to be broken when the blower receives the large rearward-load from the passenger seated in the seat in the vehicle rear collision.

Assignees

• Mazda Motor

Inventors

• Kuroda Koji
• Inoue Junsuke
• Sawai Ryo
• Abe Tomoyuki

Classifications

• B60N2/80 Primary

  Head-rests · CPC title

• B60N2/5635

  coming from the passenger compartment · CPC title

• B60N2/42727

  involving substantially rigid displacement · CPC title

• B60N2/4228

  due to impact coming from the rear · CPC title

• B60N2/48 Primary

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic