Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Adient US LLC

Adient Engineering and IP Gmbh

Frederick L Wilkinson

Wenting Zhang

Sean M Osinski

Naoto Komiya

Laxmikant Indi

Yunxiao Li

Hiroki Ikeda

Toshimitsu Mizukoshi

Taiji Misono

Yuki Fukuda

Motohiko Ozawa

Hiromitsu Nagatomo

Atsunori Matsui

Souhei Noguchi

Valentin Muresan

A seat slide device includes a pair of sliders each including a fixed rail, a movable rail slidably guided by the fixed rail, a bracket on the movable rail configured so that front and rear sides swing opposite to each other in a vertical direction with a longitudinal-intermediate part as a fulcrum, a support bracket supported on the bracket via a hinge and configured to rotate in only one direction from a predetermined orientation about an lateral-direction axis relative to the bracket, a movement-restricting portion configured to restrict sliding of the movable rail while a rear part of the bracket is raised and to release the restriction while the rear part of the bracket is lowered; and a towel bar connecting each support bracket. The hinge part prohibits a rotation of the support bracket while the towel bar is lifted and permits the rotation while the towel bar is lowered.

Seat slide device

A mat mounting structure for mounting a mat on a seat back frame in a seat back may have a guide wire attachable to the mat configured to receive a force from a back of an occupant on the seat back. The guide wire may have a straight part extending linearly in a longitudinal direction of the seat back frame on a head side or a root side of the seat back frame. A bushing including a penetration hole in which the straight part is insertable in the longitudinal direction may be included in the structure. An attachment hole part in the seat back frame may also be part of the structure. The bushing may be detachably engageable with and attachable to the attachment hole part.

Mat mounting structure in seat back and vehicle seat

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Plymouth, MI, United States of America

Frederick L Wilkinson