Seatback frame

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9914376-B2
Application number	US-201414916379-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 3, 2014
Priority date	Sep 4, 2013
Publication date	Mar 13, 2018
Grant date	Mar 13, 2018

Abstract

A frame serving as a seatback frame for a vehicle seat and simply configured to reduce a load applied to a seated occupant at the time of a vehicle collision is provided. A seatback frame includes a connecting wire which connects side frames. The center of the connecting wire is bent to extend toward a front side of a vehicle seat. When the seated occupant is moved toward a rear side of the vehicle seat at the time of a vehicle rear-end collision, the forward extending portion restrains a portion of the back of the seated occupant in which a thoracic vertebra is located and reduces an amount of a rearward movement of the portion.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A seatback frame forming a frame of a seat back which supports a back of a seated occupant on a vehicle seat, the seatback frame comprising:
a movement reduction member configured to, when the seated occupant is moved rearwardly in the vehicle seat by a vehicle collision, restrain the back of the seated occupant and reduce a rearward movement of the back of the seated occupant,
wherein the movement reduction member is a wire-shaped member comprising a forward extending portion which extends to a front side of the vehicle seat;
wherein the wire-shaped member is a connecting wire connecting both ends of the seat back in a width direction thereof,
wherein a predetermined portion of the connecting wire is bent toward the front side of the vehicle seat to form the forward extending portion,
wherein the forward extending portion comprises a plurality of forward extending portions formed in the center of the connecting wire in the width direction, and
wherein each of the plurality of forward extending portions comprises a first extending portion extending toward the front side of the vehicle seat and a second extending portion continuously formed with a front end of the first extending portion to extend in the width direction.

2. The seatback frame according to claim 1 , wherein the connecting wire is positioned below a headrest pillar in the vehicle seat, the headrest pillar being provided to attach a headrest to the seat back, and
wherein the second extending portion is positioned to overlap a position in which the headrest pillar is arranged in the width direction.

3. The seatback frame according to claim 1 , wherein a pair of lateral frames is arranged in the both ends of the seat back in the width direction, and
wherein the second extending portion is positioned in a rear side of front ends of the lateral frames and in a front side of rear ends of the lateral frames.

4. The seatback frame according to claim 1 , further comprising a low-back movement restriction member configured to, when the seated occupant is moved toward the rear side of the vehicle seat by the vehicle collision, restrain a low back of the seated occupant to inhibit a rearward movement of the low back.

5. The seatback frame according to claim 1 , comprising a pressure receiving member arranged in an inclined state with respect to an up to down direction to support an upper body of the seated occupant so that the upper body moves rearward,
wherein when seen from an end of the seat back in a width direction thereof, the movement reduction member is provided in a rear side of an area where the pressure receiving member is positioned in a front to back direction.

6. The seatback frame according to claim 1 , comprising an upper frame forming an upper end of the seatback frame to comprise a portion extending in a height direction of the seat back,
wherein when seen from an end of the seat back in a width direction thereof, the second extending portion is provided in a rear side of an imaginary plane which passes through the center in a front to back direction of the portion of the upper frame extending in the height direction.

7. The seatback frame according to claim 1 , further comprising an upper frame forming an upper end of the seatback frame to comprise a portion extending in a height direction of the seat back,
wherein the portion of the upper frame extending in the height direction is positioned in each of both ends of the seat back in a width direction thereof, and
wherein the movement reduction member is arranged in an inner side in the width direction from the portion of the upper frame extending in the height direction and is attached to the portion of the upper frame extending in the height direction.

8. The seatback frame according to claim 1 , wherein the connecting wire is positioned below a headrest pillar in the vehicle seat, the headrest pillar being provided to attach a headrest to the seat back, and
wherein a position in the connecting wire in which the forward extending portion is formed is below the headrest pillar.

9. The seatback frame according to claim 8 , wherein the position in the connecting wire in which the forward extending portion is formed is ahead of the headrest pillar.

10. The seatback frame according to claim 1 , further comprising an upper frame forming an upper end of the seatback frame to comprise a portion extending in a height direction of the seat back,
wherein each of both ends of the connecting wire in the width direction is attached to the portion of the upper frame extending in the height direction, and
wherein a position in the connecting wire in which the forward extending portion is formed is ahead of an attachment position of the end of the connecting wire to the portion of the upper frame extending in the height direction.

11. The seatback frame according to claim 1 , wherein a pair of lateral frames is arranged in the both ends of the seat back in the width direction, and
wherein a position in the connecting wire in which the second extending portion is provided is ahead of rear ends of the lateral frames.

12. A seatback frame forming a frame of a seat back which supports a back of a seated occupant on a vehicle seat, the seatback frame comprising:
a movement reduction member configured to, when the seated occupant is moved rearwardly in the vehicle seat by a vehicle collision, restrain the back of the seated occupant and reduce a rearward movement of the back of the seated occupant,
wherein the movement reduction member is a wire-shaped member comprising a forward extending portion which extends to a front side of the vehicle seat,
wherein the forward extending portion comprises a first extending portion extending toward the front side of the vehicle seat and a second extending portion continuously formed with a front end of the first extending portion to extend in the width direction,
wherein the second extending portion is positioned ahead of a headrest pillar in the vehicle seat, the headrest pillar being provided to attach a headrest to the seat back, and
wherein a rear end of the movement reduction member is positioned in a rear side of the headrest pillar in the vehicle seat.

13. The seatback frame according to claim 12 , wherein the rear end of the movement reduction member is positioned above the second extending portion.

14. The seatback frame according to claim 12 , wherein the wire-shaped member is a connecting wire connecting both ends of the seat back in a width direction thereof,
wherein both ends of the connecting wire in the width direction are attached to an upper end of the seatback frame, and
wherein the rear end of the movement reduction member is positioned in a rear side of an attachment position of the both ends of the connecting wire to the upper end of the seatback frame.

15. A seatback frame forming a frame of a seat back which supports a back of a seated occupant on a vehicle seat, the seatback frame comprising:
a movement reduction member configured to, when the seated occupant is moved rearwardly in the vehicle seat by a vehicle collision, restrain the back of the seated occupant and reduce a rearward movement of the back of the seated occupant, and
a pillar supporting portion supporting a headrest pillar which is provided to attach a headrest to the seat back;
wherein the movement reduction member is a wire-shaped member comprising a forward extending portion which extends to a front side of the vehicle seat,
wherein the forward extending portion comprises a first extending portion extending toward the front side

Assignees

• Ts Tech Co Ltd
• Honda Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Fujita Satoshi
• Higano Yusuke
• Sano Koji
• Tsuda Toshihiko

Classifications

• B60N2/80

  Head-rests · CPC title

• B60N2/4207

  characterised by the direction of the g-forces · CPC title

• B60N2/4221

  due to impact coming from the front · CPC title

• B60N2/427

  Seats or parts thereof displaced during a crash · CPC title

• B60N2/42745

  of the back-rest (B60N2/433 takes precedence; higher part of the back-rest moving together with the headrest B60N2/888) · CPC title