Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Ts Tech Co., Ltd.

Tachi-s Co., Ltd.

Kazuhisa Nishimura

Tetsuya Ishikawa

Hideki Kobayashi

Makoto Nomura

Atsushi Ito

Hiroyuki Fujii

Maki Yamaguchi

Yutaka Kanaguchi

Yasunobu Kawamoto

Kengo Kataoka

Hidenori Watanabe

Kanae Tsukidate

Takahiro Ando

Jonathan Garcia

Susumu Nagayama

Tatsuya Shiono

A front seatis foldable such that a seat backis frontwardly collapsed and placed on a seat cushion, a rear seatis foldable such that a seat backis frontwardly collapsed and placed on a seat cushion, and a trunk floorextending from a front pillarto a rear pillaris formable by laying a trunk boardacross a gap formed between a rear face of the seat backof the front seatand a rear face of the seat backof the rear seatwith the front seatand the rear seatin a folded state.

Floor structure for automobile

A simply structured vehicle seat with reduced number of parts includes a cap for covering an anchor storage recess which stores an anchor to be engaged with an engagement member attached to a child seat. The anchor storage recess includes a side part and a bottom part. A cap is provided for covering the anchor storage recess, and includes a flange part, a main body part, and a slit. The main body part has a dimension larger than an inner dimension of the side part of the anchor storage recess. The cap is detachably fitted with the anchor storage recess by engagement between the anchor and the slit and pressure contact between the side part of the anchor storage recess and the main body part of the cap, when the main body of the cap is inserted along the side part into the anchor storage recess.

Vehicle seat with detachable cap for anchor storage recess

In a vehicle seat (car seat) including a first seat portion (seat cushion) movable between a use position and a retracted position, and a second seat portion (seat back) movable between a use position and a retracted position, an actuator mechanism is configured to cause the second seat portion to start moving toward its retracted position at a time when the first seat portion passes a predetermined intermediate position that is on a way from the use position toward the retracted position. In one embodiment, the actuator mechanism includes a biasing member (torsion spring) configured to bias each of the seat cushionand the seat backfrom the use position toward the retracted position, a lock member (lock arm) configured to lock the seat backin the use position, and an unlock device (cableA) configured to release the lock member to cause the seat backto start moving toward the retracted position, at a time when the seat cushionpasses the predetermined intermediate position that is on the way from a posture in which the seat cushion is ready for use toward a posture in which the seat cushionis tipped up.

Vehicle seat

In a vehicle seat including a first seat portion movable between a use position in which the first seat portion is ready for use and a retracted position in which the first seat portion not in use is located, and a second seat portion movable between a use position in which the second seat portion is ready for use and a retracted position in which the second seat portion not in use is located, an actuator mechanism is configured to cause the second seat portion to start moving toward its retracted position at a time when the first seat portion passes a predetermined intermediate position that is on a way from the use position toward the retracted position.

In a seat-receiving structure for a vehicle, seats are mounted on a floor surface within a vehicle room, and are arranged in a forward-rearward direction, and a seat-receiving recess is formed in and extends downwardly from a floor surface disposed rearwardly of the rearmost-row seat, and the rearmost-row seat can be folded in such a manner that a seat back thereof is brought down forwardly to be laid on a seat cushion thereof, and the folded seat can be turned rearwardly about rotation shafts to be received in the seat-receiving recess. The floor surface, in which the seat-receiving recess is formed, is disposed at a level higher than a foot-resting floor surface for the rearmost-row seat. The rotation shafts on the seat cushion of the rearmost-row seat are disposed at a level which is lower than the floor surface , in which the seat-receiving recess is formed, and also is lower than an upper side of the receiving recess.

Seat-receiving structure for vehicle

Closure apparatus of a vehicle includes a passenger compartment side push knob capable of being locked and unlocked by a locking mechanism. When the locking mechanism is unlocked, the push knob is put in an actuatable condition in which the push knob can be lowered by depressing it with a finger. In conjunction with the downward movement of the push knob, a trunk side push knob moves downward to unlock the lid. The lid is pulled down toward the passenger compartment side whereupon the passenger compartment and the trunk area communicate with each other. The trunk side push knob can be depressed without regard to the locked and unlocked conditions of the locking mechanism. When this push knob is depressed, the lid is unlocked and hence can be pulled down toward the passenger compartment side for making a communication between the passenger compartment and the trunk area.

Closure apparatus between passenger compartment and trunk of vehicle

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Saitama, Japan

Kazuhisa Nishimura