Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Setsu Takuma

Koji Ito

Harutomi Nishide

Kazuya Tanaka

Kan Ichihara

Kenji Maeta

Hitoshi Yanase

Naoka Kawajiri

Yoshiyuki Amamiya

Wataru Otake

Koichi Nakayama

Kosuke Kito

Nobuhito Takai

Hiromi Kondo

Koji Washino

Shigeyoshi Toda

Keiichi Yanai

A load detection device for a vehicle seat includes a strain generating body including a first end hole, a second end hole and a strain gauge, a first fixing member including a first middle shaft portion and a first end shaft portion, a second fixing member including a second middle shaft portion and a second end shaft portion, a bracket member including first and second fixing portions connected to each other with a connecting portion, first and second fixing holes, the first end shaft portion is press-fitted into the first fixing hole, the second fixing hole is fitted onto the second end shaft portion in a manner that the second fixing hole includes a degree of freedom of a movement thereof in a lengthwise direction and a movement thereof in a direction intersecting with the lengthwise direction is restricted, and a connecting member.

Load detection device for vehicle seat

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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Gamagori, Japan

Setsu Takuma