Vehicle seat

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9981579-B2
Application number	US-201615277432-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 27, 2016
Priority date	Sep 30, 2015
Publication date	May 29, 2018
Grant date	May 29, 2018

Abstract

A vehicle seat includes a seatback configured to be tiltable in a front-rear direction; and a flexible covering configured to extend from the seatback to a deck board positioned behind the seatback. The covering includes a shaped portion that is provided in an intermediate location in a length direction of the extending covering, and is shaped so as to facilitate bending of the covering toward a region below the deck board, and a reinforcing portion that increases rigidity of a region away from the shaped portion so as to facilitate transmission of elastic force to the shaped portion, the elastic force being generated at a time when the covering bends due to a change in a separation distance between both end portions of the extending covering in the length direction in response to tilting of the seatback.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle seat comprising:
a seatback configured to be tiltable in a front-rear direction; and
a flexible covering comprising a layer of carpet configured to extend from the seatback to a deck board positioned behind the seatback, the covering includes:
a shaped portion that is provided in an intermediate location in a length direction of the covering, and is shaped so as to facilitate bending of the covering toward a region below the deck board, and
a reinforcing portion that is positioned around an outer peripheral side of the shaped portion and that increases rigidity of a region away from the shaped portion so as to facilitate transmission of an elastic force to the shaped portion, the elastic force being generated at a time when the covering bends due to a change in a separation distance between both end portions of the covering in the length direction in response to tilting of the seatback,
wherein the reinforcing portion comprises a folded portion that extends along an end portion of the covering in a vehicle width direction, and
wherein the folded portion comprises an edge portion of the carpet in the vehicle width direction folded and overlapped with another portion of the carpet.

2. The vehicle seat according to claim 1 , wherein the covering further includes a shape retaining portion that keeps the shaped portion in a shape that facilitates bending of the covering.

3. The vehicle seat according to claim 2 , wherein the reinforcing portion is provided to extend up to a region where the shape retaining portion of the shaped portion is provided.

4. The vehicle seat according to claim 2 , wherein the shaped portion comprises a V-shaped bent portion provided in the covering, and the shape retaining portion comprises by a joined portion in which intermediate portions of the V-shaped bent portion are joined together.

5. The vehicle seat according to claim 1 , wherein the reinforcing portion continuously covers the outer peripheral side of the shaped portion.

6. The vehicle seat according to claim 1 , wherein the reinforcing portion is provided in both a region that extends toward the seatback from the shaped portion and a region that extends toward the deck board from the shaped portion.

7. The vehicle seat according to claim 1 , wherein the reinforcing portion is a portion of the covering that is folded back upon itself to define overlapping layers of the covering.

Assignees

• Toyota Boshoku Kk

Inventors

• Watanabe Toyotaka
• Hirata Ayumi
• Kaseda Shuhei
• Takase Tomoyuki

Classifications

• B60N2/58 Primary

  Seat coverings · CPC title

• B60N2/22

  the back-rest being adjustable {(B60N2/2878 takes precedence)} · CPC title

• B60N2002/363

  characterised by provisions for enhancing the cargo floor surface, e.g. elements closing gaps or enlarging the back-rest surface · CPC title

• B60N2/36

  into a loading platform {(B60N2/065 takes precedence)} · CPC title