Tachi-s Co., Ltd.

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Takashi Shindo

Makoto Nomura

Kengo Kataoka

Hiroki Yoshihara

Masahiko Takahata

Yuuki Kumamoto

Kanae Morita

To prevent wrinkles from occurring on the outer skin member, in a vehicle seat including a urethane pad on which a groove is formed, a fixing member being embedded in the groove; trim covers covering a surface of the urethane pad; a suspender to suspend the trim covers sewn to each other for connection in the groove; and a plurality of tying members to tie the suspender with the fixing member, the suspender is provided with a seat cover suspension member and a reinforcement piece fixed to an edge portion of the seat cover suspension member, a number of slits are formed along the reinforcement piece at a portion of the seat cover suspension member where the reinforcement piece is fixed, and the plurality of tying members tie the suspender with the fixing member with a part of each of the tying members in abutment with the reinforcement piece.

Excessive pull-in prevention suspender for seat cover suspension member and vehicle seat using the same

A surface structure of wadded seat, with a trim cover having a plurality of trim cover pieces backed with wadding members and sewed together at ends, further includes: first sewed portions, each formed by sewing two adjacent trim cover pieces at one end of each trim cover piece, while serving as seam allowance, the portions not backed with the wadding members; second sewed portions, each formed first by forming a continuous trim cover piece, then by laying a long wadding member on the backs of the wadding members, and finally by sewing, at both ends of the continuous trim cover piece, the wadding members on the backs of the trim cover pieces and the long wadding member; and third sewed portions, each formed by sewing, at both ends of each first sewed portion, the long wadding member to the end of each trim cover piece.

Surface structure of wadded seat and method of manufacturing surface structure of wadded seat

An integral skin foam molded article includes: a skin formed by sewing a plurality of skin pieces in a bag shape; and a resin foam which is molded inside the skin integrally with the skin, wherein: at least one skin piece among the plurality of skin pieces has a surface material made of a natural leather, and includes a wadding material stacked on a back side of the surface material in a non-surface joined state and a lining material stacked on the wadding material; and in a shrinkage rate with respect to an in-plane compression load, a shrinkage rate of the lining material is smaller than a shrinkage rate of the wadding material.

Integral skin foam molded article

The vehicle seat () comprises a cover part () including a cover member () having a folded portion () in the X direction at a position where it is overlapped with a hole part () formed in a seat back (), and a cover member () having a folded portion () folded in the X direction at a position where it is overlapped with the hole part (). The cover part () includes two sewn parts () for fixing the overlapped portion of the cover members () in two locations in the Y direction, while no sewn part exists in such section of the overlapped portion as intervenes between the sewn parts ().

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Tokyo, Japan

Takashi Shindo