Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Norihisa Aoki

Kohshi Katoh

Eishi Takeuchi

Shinichiro Noda

Kohei Yasuda

Hironari Taya

Keita Mizuguchi

The object lowering device comprises a pedestal and a swing. The swing includes a seat plate on which an object is placed, and is disposed on the pedestal. The pedestal is tilted with the lower corner of one side in the swinging direction of the pedestal as an axis, and the seat plate of the swing moves down to the ground, whereby the object is lowered to the ground.

Object lowering device and object raising and lowering device

A seat for a vehicle includes a seat back frame, a first elastic member, and a second elastic member. The seat back frame includes a main frame and a sub-frame. The first elastic member and the second elastic member are configured to support the sub-frame such that the sub-frame is rotatable in a width direction of the seat and are mounted between the main frame and upper end portions of the sub-frame on both sides in the width direction of the seat. Each of the first elastic member and the second elastic member has a limit of elongation and has a characteristic in which a load that is applied to the sub-frame in a rear direction of the seat acts as tension to generate a reaction force due to the limit of elongation and does not generate the reaction force in the width direction of the seat.

Seat for vehicle

There is provided a vehicle seat including: a seat main body including a seating portion, a seat back that supports an upper body of the vehicle occupant seated on the seating portion, and a headrest that is provided at an upper side of the seat back and supports a head portion of the vehicle occupant; a seatbelt that restrains the upper body of the vehicle occupant with respect to the seat back; a belt guide portion that is provided at an upper portion of the seat back or at the headrest, and through which the seatbelt is inserted, and that guides the seatbelt; and a rotating portion that, following movement of a shoulder portion of the vehicle occupant, changes a direction of guiding the seatbelt by rotating the belt guide portion by external force applied due to tension of the seatbelt.

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Toyota, Japan

Norihisa Aoki