Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Yazaki Corporation

Other

Masatoshi Mori

Fumitoshi Akaike

Kiyoka Matsubayashi

Hiroshi Kobayashi

Haruki Yoshida

Eiji Fukuda

Sumito Atsumi

Takami Terada

Kenji Hashimoto

Kenji Tatewaki

Hiroki Toyoshima

Masahiro Takezaki

Tatsuyuki Morishita

Yukifumi Yamada

Hideo Nihonmatsu

Keiji Igaki

Satoshi Ajisaka

Seiya Nishimura

Takemi Hattori

Masato Ohchi

Takuya Mizuno

Masaharu Tanino

Tadasuke Higuchi

Kouji Miyake

Akihiko Yoshida

Hideaki Honjo

Hiromi Taniguchi

Yoshihiko Nakamura

Atsumi Wakabayashi

Shigeo Ohoi

Yusuke Kajino

Kimiyo Ibaraki

Hitoshi Kimata

Yasunori Metsugi

Shunichi Abe

Provided is a seatback rotating device used for a vehicle seat. The seatback rotating device includes an electric motor, an action mechanism, a rotor, and an abutment target portion. In the seatback rotating device, when s seatback of the vehicle sat is placed in a first standing position, the rotor is positioned in a standby state that creates a gap between a first protrusion and the abutment target portion and a gap between a second protrusion and the abutment target portion, the first protrusion and the second protrusion being provided to the rotor. In the standby state, a gap length from the first protrusion to the abutment target portion is small relative to a gap length from the second protrusion to the abutment target portion.

Seatback rotating device

Provided is a seatback rotating device. The seatback rotating device includes an electric motor and an application mechanism. The electric motor generates a rotational force that is used to rotationally displace a seatback of a vehicle seat. The application mechanism enables application of the rotational force to the seatback. The application mechanism has a configuration that enables the seatback to be self-rotatable with gravity applied to the seatback in response to the rotational force being applied to the seatback.

A headrest in one aspect of the present disclosure comprises a first frame member, a second frame member, a displacement mechanism configured to displace the second frame member with respect to the first frame member, a first guide shaft, and a second guide shaft arranged at a position shifted in a substantially vertical direction and in a substantially horizontal direction with respect to the first guide shaft.

Headrest

A headrest in one aspect of the present disclosure comprises a first frame member, a second frame member, a displacement mechanism to displace the second frame member with respect to the first frame member, a first guide shaft, a first bearing portion through which the first guide shaft is inserted, a second guide shaft, a second bearing portion through which the second guide shaft is inserted, a first fixing portion that comprises a first insertion hole into which one end of the first guide shaft is inserted, and a second fixing portion that comprises a second insertion hole into which one end of the second guide shaft is inserted.

A seat cushion adjusting apparatus includes: a nut support mechanism that supports a nut member on a frame of a seat cushion; and a variable mechanism that changes a length of the seat cushion based on an axial movement of a screw shaft screwed to the nut member, wherein the nut support mechanism allows the nut member and the screw shaft to be integrally tilted while restricting rotation of the nut member.

Seat cushion adjusting apparatus

An operation mechanism of a side support apparatus adapted to be accommodated in a right and left side support portions provided at a seatback and being movable between a support position and an open position, includes a support structure including a pulley and being movable between the open position and the support position, a first fixing portion including a first guide portion and a second guide portion and fixedly provided at a seatback member, and a drive cable being fixedly attached to the first fixing portion at a first end portion of the drive cable and being engaged with the pulley at an intermediate of the drive cable. The pulley is pushed by a tensile force generated at the drive cable by pulling the drive cable so that the support structure is movable relative to the first fixing portion in a direction toward the support position.

Operation mechanism of side support apparatus and side support apparatus using same for vehicular seat

A headrest side connector unit mounted on a headrest of a vehicle includes a stay as a holder and a connector. The connector includes a projectionto be received in a projection insertion hole formed on the stay. A tip part of the second connector at a side to be connected to the mating connector is disposed further outside of the stay than an end of the stay near a seat. An outer surface of the tip part is arranged on the same plane as an outer surface of the end of the stay.

Connector unit

The present invention is to provide a connector connection apparatus to avoid drop of a connector without increase of cost. The connector connection apparatus includes a holder for receiving therein and holding the connector, a receiving portion main body for receiving therein and holding the holder, and a plate for fixing the holder attached to the receiving portion main body. The receiving portion main body includes a receiving hole having a diameter larger than an outer diameter of the holder and receiving the holder therein. The holder is inserted from an upper opening of the receiving hole into the receiving portion main body. The holder is then held between the plate and the receiving portion main body.

Connector connection apparatus

The connector unit includes: a first holder to be attached to a first article; a first connector to be received in the first holder; a second holder to be attached to a second article; and a second connector to be received in the second holder to be coupled with the first connector, wherein the first holder includes a hold engaging part having an arm body and a projection which engages with the first connector, the connector unit further includes: an engagement-removing part which removes an engagement between the hold engaging part and the first connector when the first and second connectors are coupled with eachother; and an entrance-permitting part provided on the second holder to allow the projection of the disengaged hold engaging part to enter therein after the first and second connectors move with respect to the first holder.

A headrest device includes a fixed base, a movable base disposed forward relative to the fixed base, at least one first link being rotatably supported by a connecting shaft provided between the movable base and the fixed base, at least one second link being supported by the connecting shaft so as to rotate relative to the first link, a connection portion connecting the movable base and the fixed base to be relatively movable by a relative rotation between the first link and the second link, a drive portion relatively rotating the first link and the second link in a direction so as to deploy the movable base away from the fixed base on the basis of a detected result by a rear-end collision detection means, and at least one relative rotation restricting portion provided for restricting a relative rotation between the first link and the second link about the connecting shaft.

Headrest device

A headrest height adjusting apparatus includes: a basal member attached to a seatback and supporting a driving member; a movable member linked to a headrest and lifted up and down relative to the basal member; a transmitting member transmitting a driving force of the driving member to the movable member and lifting up and down the headrest linked to the movable member. The transmitting member having a frangible portion that leads a collapse of the transmitting member against an impact applied in a vertical direction between the driving member and the movable member and absorbs energy of the impact.

Headrest height adjusting apparatus

A headrest height adjustment device includes a base member fixed on a seatback of a seat body, a pulley rotatably supported by the base member, the pulley being rotatable in a first direction by unwinding a first end of a rope member wound around the pulley and winding a second end of the rope member in conjunction with sliding movement of the seat body, and the pulley being rotatable in a second direction by winding the first end of a rope member and unwinding the second end of the rope member in conjunction with sliding movement, a rotational arm rotatably supported by the base member and rotated by the pulley by a rotation transmission member, and a conversion member engaged with the rotational arm for operating a headrest in an upward or downward direction by converting rotational movement of the rotational arm into linear movement.

Headrest height adjustment device

A headrest device includes a headrest provided over a seatback of a seat, a sliding means for slidably adjusting the seat in back and forth directions, a position-adjusting means for adjusting position of the headrest, and a connecting mechanism connecting the sliding means and the position-adjusting means. The connecting mechanism operates the position-adjusting means in conjunction with operation of the sliding means. The connecting mechanism moves in a first direction when the sliding means moves forward, and the connecting mechanism moves in a second direction when the sliding means moves backward.

A paint for forming a heat absorbing film which exhibits a good binding property for binding with a conductive reflecting film, contains a black pigment, and a compound represented by Si(OR ) R , where n&plus;m&equals;4, n&equals;1 to 4, m&equals;0 to 3, each of R and R is one of an alkyl group, an alkenyl group and an aryl group, or a hydrolyzate of the compound. Also, the present invention relates to a heat absorbing film formed out of this heat absorbing film paint and a color CRT provided with this heat absorbing film.

Paint for heat absorbing film, heat absorbing film and color CRT

A headrest device includes a thinner and improved positioning of the vertical position adjusting device. A geared or threaded drive shaft and a guide are positioned parallel to each other and parallel relative to a backrest. The driving force is directly transmitted from a motor unit positioned at the upper portion of the drive shaft and the guide to the drive shaft without a gear cable. The motor unit is directly assembled between a pair of longitudinal stay shaft portions at the upper portion of a seat backrest frame without a bracket.

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Aichi, Japan

Masatoshi Mori