Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Nhk Spring Co., Ltd.

Denso Corporation

Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd.

Subaru Corporation

Masami Handa

Satoshi Goshima

Shingo Wanami

Manabu Abe

Morihiro Ichisugi

Hideyuki Karasawa

Masataka Tobita

Norikatsu Aoshima

Toshiaki Sunaga

Shigeyuki Osawa

Daisuke Kobayashi

Yoichi Aoki

The present invention provides a seat apparatus having: a seat back; a forward tilt device that allows at least a portion of the seat back to tilt forward; a securing device that secures the seat back at a vehicle body side; and a release strap that is used for releasing a securing condition of the securing device and has a grip portion. The release strap has a first condition in which the grip portion is positioned at a rear side of the seat back and a second condition in which the grip portion is positioned at a portion so as to be accessible from a front side of the seat back, and one of the first condition and the second condition of the release strap can be selected.

Seat apparatus and vehicle

A passenger detection device for a vehicle is provided with multiple load sensors, each of which detects a load on a seat of the vehicle within a predetermined detection range of the load sensor, and an ECU that determines passenger information of the seat. The ECU has at least one calculation range, each of which limits the detection range of each corresponding one of the multiple load sensors. The ECU determines the passenger information based on a detection data value of each load sensor, which is outputted from the load sensor and falls within the corresponding calculation range of the load sensor.

Passenger detection device

Each front sensor senses a load, which is applied to a front part of a seat, and each rear sensor senses a load, which is applied to a rear part of the seat. A size of an entire load sensing range of each front sensor is smaller than a size of an entire load sensing range of each rear sensor.

Load sensing system for seat

A vehicular seat apparatus has a first slide rail unit including a first stationary rail and a first moving rail and a second slide rail unit including a second stationary rail and a second moving rail. Load sensors are provided between the seat cushion assembly and the moving rails. The first stationary rail and the second stationary rail are connected to each other by a rigid frame. The rigid frame can maintain the relative positions of the first and second slide rail units. Body mounting leg portions provided on the rigid frame are fixed to a seat mounting portion of a vehicle body.

Vehicular seat apparatus

To form a child seat having relatively wide regulated side walls in a relatively thin folding seat back for a wagon or light van, without changing the hip point of the rear seat passenger, the rear seat is divided into a first wide seat back and a second narrow seat back in such a way as to be folded up frontward separately, a recessed seat back portion of the child seat is formed at roughly a vehicle-middle portion of the first wide seat back, a child seat cushion of the child seat is pivotally mounted at the child seat recessed seat back of the first wide seat back, and in particular, two side wall portions of the child seat are formed by a first projecting portion of the first wide seat back along an inner stepped portion of the recessed seat back portion and by a second projecting portion the second narrow seat back along an inner end surface of the second narrow seat back, respectively, in such a way that the child seat cushion can be accommodated in the recessed seat back portion when not used.

Vehicle rear seat provided with child seat

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Tokyo, Japan

Masami Handa