Vehicle seat

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9969309-B2
Application number	US-201514694548-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 23, 2015
Priority date	Apr 25, 2014
Publication date	May 15, 2018
Grant date	May 15, 2018

Abstract

A vehicle seat having a frame and a shield mounted thereto, wherein the frame has a hole portion or an insertion portion, the shield has an insertion part which is inserted into the hole portion or a hole part into which the insertion portion is inserted, the engaging portion of the shield engages with the engaged portion of the frame in a state where the infix portion is inserted into the cavity portion, and the cavity portion is arranged such that a direction in which the infix portion is inserted into the cavity portion is a direction intersected with the insertion direction of the insertion part relative to the hole portion or the direction intersected with the insertion direction of the insertion portion relative to the hole part.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle seat comprising: a frame; and a shield mounted to the frame, wherein the frame has one of a hole or an insertion portion, the shield has one of an insertion part which is inserted into the hole or a hole part into which the insertion portion is inserted, an engaging portion of the shield has one of a cavity portion and an infix portion, and an engaged portion of the frame has the other of the one of the cavity portion and the infix portion, the engaging portion engages the engaged portion in a state where the infix portion is inserted into the cavity portion, the cavity portion is arranged such that a direction in which the infix portion is inserted into the cavity portion is one of: (i) a direction intersected with an insertion direction of the insertion part relative to the hole, or (ii) a direction intersected with an insertion direction of the insertion portion relative to the hole part, and during an engagement of the shield to the frame, the shield rotates about the one of the cavity portion and infix portion such that the one of the insertion part or the hole part of the shield is inserted into or receives the one of the hole or the insertion portion of the frame.

2. The vehicle seat according to claim 1 , wherein
at least a movement of the shield in either a backward direction or a downward direction of the seat is suppressed by the engagement between the engaging portion and the engaged portion.

3. The vehicle seat according to claim 1 , wherein the insertion direction of the insertion part and the insertion portion is a left-right direction of the vehicle seat, and the engaging portion is arranged closer to the front side of the shield than the one of the insertion part or the hole part to suppress a movement of the shield in a backward direction of the vehicle seat.

4. The vehicle seat according to claim 3 , wherein
the insertion part has at a leading end thereof a deformation portion.

5. The vehicle seat according to claim 1 , wherein
the direction in which the infix portion is inserted into the cavity portion is along a front-rear direction of the vehicle seat, and
wherein the insertion direction of the one of the insertion part relative to the hole or the insertion portion relative to the hole part is along a right-left direction of the vehicle seat such that the direction in which the infix portion is inserted into the cavity portion is generally perpendicular to the insertion direction the one of the insertion part relative to the hole or the insertion portion relative to the hole part.

6. The vehicle seat according to claim 1 , wherein the infix portion is provided on the frame and the cavity portion is provided on the shield, the frame is a base body and the shield is a cover for the base body, and the base body is generally made of metal and the cover is generally made of resin such that the infix portion is made of metal and the cavity portion is made of resin.

Assignees

• Toyota Boshoku Kk

Inventors

• Nakagawa Tetsuo
• Nonoyama Shota

Classifications

• B60N2/682 Primary

  Joining means · CPC title

• B60N2/6009 Primary

  covering more than only the seat · CPC title

• B60N2/1615

  Parallelogram-like structure · CPC title

• B60N2/686

  Panel like structures · CPC title