Ts Tech Co., Ltd.

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Imasen Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Akimitsu Kurihara

Jinichi Tanabe

Makoto Takeuchi

Hiroshi Izawa

Ronald C Cozzo

Hiroyuki Kaku

Jeffrey Hudson Scheurer, Ii

Takamasa Adachi

Masaki Shimazu

Tomoki Matsumoto

Terrie L Ellison

Masakazu Okada

Masaru Tsukamoto

Ganesh Narayanan

Paul D Nguyen

Yutaka Kizawa

Yuta Kijima

Takayuki Inoue

Takashi Yasuda

Atsushi Sakakibara

Ganapathy Srinivasan

A vehicle seat that can suitably protect a seated occupant against an impact from a seat width direction is described, while enlargement of the seat in the seat width direction is restrained. A support member provided to the vehicle seat supports the seated occupant from a side of the seated occupant, and includes an inner plate attached to a seat width direction inner side of a side frame, an outer plate attached to a seat width direction outer side of the side frame, and a connection plate for connecting the inner plate and the outer plate on a seat front side. The outer plate is attached to the seat width direction outer side of the side frame at a position that does not overlap in the seat width direction with attachment positions of the inner plate and the side frame.

Vehicle seat

Provided is a vehicle seat including a height device for moving up and down a seat body and being capable of suppressing a positional displacement of the height device. A vehicle seat includes a cushion frame serving as a framework of a seating portion, a height device for moving the cushion frame up and down, and a side cover that covers the cushion frame and the height device from the outsides thereof in the seat width direction. An operation lever and a brake unit, which serve as components of the height device, are disposed separated from each other. The operation lever is positioned to be engaged with a positioning member housed in an outer surface of the side cover.

A headrest guide includes: a tubular portion that extends in a first direction and into which a stay is inserted; a tongue piece protruding partially to the inside of the tubular portion, the tongue piece being configured to bend in a radial direction of the tubular portion and being configured to be brought into contact with the stay; and a plate spring pressing the tongue piece inwardly in the radial direction of the tubular portion. Protruding portions are disposed on opposite sides of the tubular portion, respectively, with the tongue piece interposed therebetween to hold the plate spring at opposite end sides thereof.

Headrest guide

A seat frame for a vehicle seat includes a seat cushion frame that forms a frame for a seating portion of the vehicle seat, and a height adjustment mechanism that is coupled to the seat cushion frame and a rail mechanism of the vehicle seat. The height adjustment mechanism adjusts the height of the seat cushion frame. The height adjustment mechanism includes a sector gear that rotates based on a height adjustment operation, a link that moves the height of the seat cushion frame up and down based on the rotation of the sector gear, and a restriction member that abuts against the sector gear, thereby restricting the movement of the sector gear. At least one of portions of the sector gear and the restriction member that abut against each other has a tapered shape.

Seat frame

In a vehicle seat, a positional deviation of a height device for moving a seat main body up and down is suppressed. The vehicle seat includes a cushion frame serving as a frame of a seating portion; the height device for moving the cushion frame up and down; and a side cover that covers the cushion frame and the height device from outside in a seat width direction. An operation lever is positioned in a state of being engaged with a positioning member contained in an outer side surface of the side cover, and an engagement protrusion of the operation lever moves in an engagement hole of the positioning member and abuts on a first stepped portion and a second stepped portion provided around the engagement hole when the operation lever rotates.

Provided is a vehicle seat by which an impact of rear end collision is reduced and of which peripheral structure of a side frame is simplified. A vehicle seat includes: a seat back frame which includes side portions positioned at the sides thereof, a pressure receiving member which is jointed to the seat back frame through joint members and supports an occupant, and an impact reduction member which is disposed on at least one of the side portions to engage with the joint member and to move by a predetermined amount of impact load applied to the pressure receiving member so that the pressure receiving member is caused to move rearward; in which the side portion includes a convex portion protruding in the movement range of the impact reduction member, and the impact reduction member abuts against the convex portion so that the movement of the impact reduction member is prevented.

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Tochigi, Japan

Akimitsu Kurihara