Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Ts Tech Co., Ltd.

Takashi Inoh

Nobuhiro Koyota

Kazutomo Isonaga

Tsutomu Fukui

Shigeru Endo

Eiji Toba

Masaaki Yasuda

There is disclosed a seat that comprises a trim cover including a sheet of covering material and a wadding layer, a padding member covered with the cover, a seating surface section formed by a portion of the cover and a portion of the padding member, and electric or electronic equipment, the equipment including planar equipment bodies and accessories, the wadding layer including a first wadding member laminated onto the entire sheet, and second wadding members formed separately from the first wadding member and mounted to predetermined regions of the portion of the padding member which forms the seating surface section in cooperation with the portion of the cover, the bodies being disposed on the second wadding members, and the padding member being covered by the cover in such a manner that the second wadding members having the bodies disposed thereon are combined with the first wadding member.

Seat provided with electric or electronic equipment

A high-frequency generating circuit is connected to six electrode fabrics embedded in a seat back of an assistant driver's seat. Output current flowing at the time when a human body approaches the electrode fabrics is detected. It is determined whether an occupant is an adult or a child, by comparing patterns of the output current which correspond to the six electrode fabrics with a first threshold value and a second threshold value to detect the positions of the head, neck and shoulder of the occupant. When the occupant is a child having a short sitting height, the operation of an air bag device is prohibited upon collision of a vehicle, and a warning lamp is lit to move the occupant to a rear seat.

Occupant detecting system

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Saitama, Japan

Takashi Inoh