Nhk Spring Co., Ltd.

Subaru Corporation

Kensuke Yoshiga

Hiroki Jineda

Fumito Kitanaka

Kenji Nagumo

Mitsutoshi Saito

Masafumi Takano

Takashi Kamibayashi

Shota Nakajima

Kazuhito Kashima

Hitoshi Toba

Yukinori Mikita

Daisuke Kobayashi

Akihiko Mizuno

A seatback of a vehicle seat, including: a cushion member including a central section, and a pair of side sections respectively connected to a pair of side edge portions of the central section so as to be rotatable relative to the central section; a lumbar support configured to contact a rear face of the central section and to be deformable such that a front-rear direction position of part of the lumbar support is changed; a covering member having a bag shape and covering the cushion member and the lumbar support; a pair of side restraint members configured so as to be connected to an inner face of the covering member and to respectively restrain the pair of side sections; and a pair of back face restraint members provided at an inner face of a back face configuration section of the covering member and connected to the side restraint members.

Seatback of vehicle seat

A vehicle seat includes a seat cushion having an upward and downward movement mechanism configured to adjust a position of the seat cushion in a range between an upper most position and a lower most position in a seat vertical direction; and a shielding member configured to bend, and shielding a lower side of the seat cushion. The shielding member includes: an upper section disposed at a lower surface side of the seat cushion; a middle section disposed at a lower side of the upper section, provided with an inducing portion serving as a trigger for bending of the shielding member, and being configured to follow a movement, in the seat vertical direction, of the seat cushion by changing a bending angle at a bending start point portion that is bent by the inducing portion; and a lower section disposed at a lower side of the middle section.

Vehicle seat

A seatback frame including left and right side frames, a lower frame, and a sacrum support section. The left and right side frames extend in a seat up-down direction inside left and right side portions of a seatback of a vehicle seat. The lower frame spans between lower end portions of the left and right side frames. The sacrum support section extends from a lower end portion of the lower frame toward a seat front side and supports a sacral region of a seated occupant from a seat rear side. A weakened portion that is weakened by a load from the seat front side is provided to the sacrum support section.

Seatback frame and vehicle seat

A seat back of a vehicle seat, including: a side frame provided inside a cushion member in which an accommodation portion is formed; a cover material that covers a surface of the cushion member; an airbag accommodated in a folded state in the accommodation portion; a cylindrical inflator provided in the accommodation portion; a first retaining cloth, one end portion of which is connected to a rupture portion; a second retaining cloth, one end portion of which is connected to the rupture portion; and a joining member that joins together the respective other end portions of the first retaining cloth and second retaining cloth at the accommodation portion, wherein, when viewed along an axis of the inflator, a front end portion of the side frame is disposed forward of the inflator and the joining member is disposed forward of a front end portion of the side frame.

Seat back of vehicle seat

A vehicle seat including: an outside cover; an inside cover; a side airbag module; a side frame; an outside reinforcement cloth that covers a seat width direction outer side of the side airbag module; and an inside reinforcement cloth that is disposed between the side frame and the side airbag module, that covers a seat width direction inner side of the side airbag module, that includes one seat front-rear direction end portion separated into seat upper and lower sides and fixed to the side frame in a manner that avoids the fixing portion, that includes another seat front-rear direction end portion joined to the inside cover at the join portion, and that is configured to transmit tension to the join portion during inflation and deployment of the side airbag.

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Yokohama, Japan

Kensuke Yoshiga