Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha

Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Nobuhito Takai

Koji Ito

Hitoshi Yanase

Yoshiyuki Amamiya

Setsu Takuma

Hiromi Kondo

Shigeyoshi Toda

A vehicle seat has a seat cushion having a seating region. A first seating sensor is disposed at a central portion of the seating region and can detect a first seating position of an occupant. A second seating sensor is disposed at a peripheral portion of the seating region and can detect a second seating position of the occupant.

Vehicle seats

A vehicle seat has a seat cushion having a cushion pad deformable to be flexed when a seating load of an occupant is applied. A seating sensor is disposed within the seat cushion for detecting a seating position of the occupant. The seating sensor is configured as a push-in switch and can detect the seating position of the occupant when the seating sensor is pressed by the cushion pad. A fragile region is interleaved between the seating sensor and the cushion pad at a pressure receiving region where the pressing force is applied to the seating sensor. The fragile region has rigidity lower than the cushion pad.

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Nissin, Japan

Nobuhito Takai