Vehicle seat

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9950646-B2
Application number	US-201514744550-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 19, 2015
Priority date	Jun 20, 2014
Publication date	Apr 24, 2018
Grant date	Apr 24, 2018

Abstract

A vehicle seat of the present invention includes a seatback frame, a backrest section that supports a back of an occupant, a swivel-coupling section that couples the backrest section and that is capable of swiveling with respect to the seatback frame in a seat width direction, and an outer periphery support section that couples plural locations at an outer peripheral side of the backrest section to the seatback frame, that supports the backrest section with respect to the seatback frame, and that permits the backrest section to swivel.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle seat comprising:
a seatback frame;
a backrest section that supports a back of an occupant;
a swivel-coupling section that couples the backrest section to the seatback frame in such a manner that the backrest section is capable of swiveling with respect to the seatback frame in a seat width direction; and
a plurality of outer periphery support sections that each couple at a different location at an outer peripheral side of the backrest section to a different location of the seatback frame, that support the backrest section with respect to the seatback frame, and that permit the backrest section to swivel.

2. The vehicle seat of claim 1 , wherein:
the backrest section is capable of supporting at least a lumbar spine of the occupant from a group consisting of a thoracic spine and the lumbar spine; and
a center of swiveling of the backrest section is set at a height at which the thoracic spine of the occupant is positioned.

3. The vehicle seat of claim 1 , wherein the swivel-coupling section is a suspension section that suspends the backrest section from the seatback frame at a location of a center of swiveling of the backrest section.

4. The vehicle seat of claim 1 , wherein:
the outer periphery support sections couple both end portions in the seat width direction of the backrest section to the seatback frame at an upper end portion of the backrest section, and couple a center portion in the seat width direction of the backrest section to the seatback frame at a lower end portion of the backrest section.

5. The vehicle seat of claim 1 , wherein:
the backrest section includes a sub-frame that configures an outer peripheral section of the backrest section and that is coupled to the seatback frame by the swivel-coupling section and the outer periphery support section, and an elastic extension-contraction member that is stretched across the sub-frame.

6. The vehicle seat of claim 1 , further comprising a biasing member that biases the backrest section toward a central side of a swiveling range with respect to the seatback frame.

7. The vehicle seat of claim 1 , further comprising an adjustment mechanism that adjusts a position in a seatback up-down direction of a center of swiveling of the backrest section.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Katoh Kohshi
• Takeuchi Eishi
• Hamabe Tsutomu
• Suwa Yasuhiro

Classifications

• B60N2002/0208

  the seat or seat part turning about or moving along an inclined axis · CPC title

• B60N2/643 Primary

  shape of the back-rests (B60N2/66 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B60N2002/022

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

• B60N2/68

  Seat frames · CPC title

• B60N2002/0212

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