Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha

Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Shatai Kabushiki Kaisha

Takuya Mizuno

Yukifumi Yamada

Takashi Hattori

Motohisa Nakamura

Tsutomu Oya

Hiromi Taniguchi

Sadao Ito

Fumitoshi Akaike

Takami Terada

Naoya Okamoto

Toshiyuki Tanaka

Masatoshi Mori

Seiya Nishimura

Kiyoka Matsubayashi

Kenji Maeta

Eiji Mizutani

Masaki Okada

Kenji Maeda

Daisuke Ono

Kouji Kondoh

Hiromi Okazaki

A seat rotating device capable of achieving both of suppression of floating of a rotating plate from a seat slider and positioning in a front-rear direction of the rotating plate at a seating position is provided. The seat rotating device includes a seat slider including a lower rail and an upper rail, a base plate, a rotating plate including a belt anchor bracket, a coupling unit, a restriction portion, a fixing member, and a load bearing portion. The restriction portion includes an opposed portion opposed, in the front-rear direction, to a rear end of the belt anchor bracket while the rotating plate is located at the seating position and a tab located above the rear end of the belt anchor bracket while the rotating plate is located at the seating position.

Seat rotating device

A vehicle seat includes: a seat main body; a lock mechanism portion that restricts a rotational operation of the seat main body; an operation portion that is operated to cause the lock mechanism portion to perform an unlock operation; a first member to which an operation force from the operation portion is transmitted; a second member that transmits the operation force toward the lock mechanism portion; and an intermediate member that is disposed, when the seat main body is slid to a specific position, at a first position at which the intermediate member is engaged with the first member and the second member, the intermediate member being disposed, when the seat main body is slid to a position different from the specific position, at a second position at which the intermediate member is disengaged from the first member and the second member.

Vehicle seat

One example of a sliding device that can sufficiently reduce a separation phenomenon is disclosed. The sliding device includes a fixed rail, a movable rail, a fixed-side hook, an engagement hook, and a reinforcing hook. The fixed rail is configured to be fixed to a vehicle. To the movable rail, the seat body is attachable. The movable rail is slidable with respect to the fixed rail. The fixed-side hook is configured to be fixed to the vehicle. The engagement hook is provided to the movable rail. The engagement hook is engageable with the fixed-side hook, and is formed by a first plate material curved approximately into a letter J or U shape. The reinforcing hook overlaps with the engagement hook in a thickness direction of the first plate material. The reinforcing hook is formed by a second plate material curved approximately into a letter J or U shape.

Sliding device

Disclosed is one example of a sliding device in which a movable rail can be inhibited from being largely deformed even when a load such as a compressed load acts on the movable rail. The sliding device includes a fixed rail, a movable rail, and a load receiving portion. The fixed rail is configured to be fixed to a vehicle. To the movable rail, the seat body is attachable. The movable rail is slidable with respect to the fixed rail. The load receiving portion extends from a fixed rail side toward a movable rail side. The load receiving portion is configured to receive a load directed from the movable rail toward the fixed rail in conjunction with the movable rail when the load acts on the movable rail.

A lock device for a vehicle includes a base plate provided with an entrance/retracting groove for receiving or retracting a striker and a latch pivotally supported on the base plate by a latch axis. The latch includes a lock groove engaging with or disengaging from the striker entering the entrance/retracting groove and rotatable between a lock release position allowing the striker entering into the entrance/retracting groove and a lock position for holding the striker in the entrance/retracting groove by the movement of the striker. A first biasing member is provided for biasing the latch in the rotational direction to the release position to bias the pawl in a rotational direction towards the release preventing position and a second biasing member is provided for biasing the rotation plate in a rotational direction towards the release position of the latch.

Lock device for a vehicle

A seat reclining apparatus for a vehicle includes first, second, and third gear mechanisms, each gear mechanism including a first frame having an internal gear and a second frame having an external gear engaging with the internal gear, the number of teeth of the external gear being fewer than the internal gear, wherein the first gear mechanism is provided at one side of a vehicle seat, and the second and third gear mechanisms are provided at the other side, a shaft connecting the first gear mechanism with the second and third gear mechanisms, and an electric motor rotating the shaft to shift an engagement position between the internal gear and the external gear for tilting the seatback relative to the seat cushion, wherein the electric motor is disposed at one of the first frame and the second frame of the first gear mechanism provided at the one side.

Seat reclining apparatus for vehicle

An electric telescopic apparatus for a vehicle seat includes a base body provided at one of the vehicle seat or an ottoman, a movable body provided at a movable portion, the movable body assembled to the base body so as to extend or retract relative to the base body, a rack fixed on one of a top surface or a bottom surface of the base body or the movable body, the rack being formed in a plate shape which extends in the extending and retracting direction of the movable body and having teeth, a pinion housed in the other of the base body or the movable body and engaged with the rack, a drive unit for driving the pinion, and a guide mechanism provided at the base body and the movable body to guide the movable body in the extending and retracting direction of the movable body.

Electric telescopic apparatus for vehicle seat

A headrest device includes a fixed base, a movable base disposed forward relative to the fixed base, at least one first link being rotatably supported by a connecting shaft provided between the movable base and the fixed base, at least one second link being supported by the connecting shaft so as to rotate relative to the first link, a connection portion connecting the movable base and the fixed base to be relatively movable by a relative rotation between the first link and the second link, a drive portion relatively rotating the first link and the second link in a direction so as to deploy the movable base away from the fixed base on the basis of a detected result by a rear-end collision detection means, and at least one relative rotation restricting portion provided for restricting a relative rotation between the first link and the second link about the connecting shaft.

Headrest device

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Kariya, Japan

Takuya Mizuno