Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

The University of Tokyo

Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha

Makoto Itou

Masayuki Yamada

Osamu Fujimoto

Hideki Kobayashi

Masaki Mori

Yoshihiro Suda

Keisuke Onoda

Takeshi Tokai

Kei Matsui

Teiji Mabuchi

When a seat () is to be stowed, a seat pad () is moved toward a seat () reverse side, pad side portions () are rotated toward the seat () reverse side with respect to a pad center portion (), and a center portion () and side portions () of the seat () are contracted. Here, interlockingly with contraction of the side portions (), a skin () is bent and folded in at portions covering distal ends of vertical walls () of a wall panel () and at second fixing portions (B). Due thereto, slack of the skin () at seat () lateral direction end surfaces can be taken in.

Seat structure and seat contraction method

With a vehicle seat arranging structure, a second-row passenger-side seat may be placed in a rearward slide position by sliding the second-row passenger-side seat toward the rear of a vehicle by 150 millimeters so that the second-row passenger-side seat is closer to the rear of the vehicle than the second-row driver-side seat. In addition, each of the second-row driver-side seat and the second-row passenger-side seat may be placed in an obliquely-inward frontward-oriented position by swiveling each of the second-row driver-side seat and the second-row passenger-side seat from the frontward-oriented position 10 degrees inward in the vehicle-width direction. In this way, the sense of distance between the occupants seated in the second-row driver-side seat and the second-row passenger-side seat is reduced. As a result, it is possible to promote communication between these occupants (to make it easier for these occupants to communicate with each other).

Vehicle seat arranging structure

Growing community of inventors

Aichi, Japan

Makoto Itou