Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Tokyo Seat Corp., Ltd.

Honda Giken Hogyo Kabishiki Kaisha

Tatsuya Tokuda

Hiroshi Moriyama

Kenzo Shimada

Kazuo Shimizu

Jun Hosaka

Iwao Miyajima

A riding-type powered lawn mower has a frame, front and rear wheels rotatably mounted on the frame, an engine mounted on the frame for rotating the rear wheels, a cutter deck mounted on the frame and housing a cutter blade drivable by the engine, a driver's seat mounted on the frame by a seat bracket in front of the engine, and a steering column mounted on the frame forwardly of the driver's seat. The riding-type powered lawn mower also has a body paneling mounted on the frame. The body paneling comprises a unitary front body cover covering the steering column, the seat bracket, and a front portion of the engine, and a unitary rear hood detachably connected to a rear end of the front body cover and covering a rear portion of the engine.

Motor vehicle body paneling

A seat for a special vehicle, includes a seat back, a seat cushion, and a pair of elongated stays for interconnecting the seat back and the seat cushion. The seat back includes a back frame, a first cushioned padding having lower and upper sections, the lower section having bulged portions formed at its left and right side portions by bulging the left and right side portions to a relatively large degree in a manner to allow the lower section to have a substantially C-shape in cross section, and a first covering sheet covering the first cushioned padding therethrough, the first cushioned padding, covered with the first covering sheet, being attached to the back frame. The seat cushion includes a bottom frame, a second cushioned padding which has ridge portions formed at its left and right side portions and extending from portions of a rear end of the second cushioned padding to the approximately middle portions along the left and right side portions of the second cushioned padding, and a second covering sheet covering the second cushioned padding therethrough, the second cushioned padding, covered with the second covering sheet, being attached to the bottom frame. A pair of the stays are obtuse-angularly curved, upper portions of which stays are inserted from portions of a bottom of the seat back into the seat back and lower portions of which stays are inserted from to surface portions of the seat cushion near a rear end of the seat cushion, whereby the seat back interconnected and obliquely supported to the seat cushion.

Seat for special vehicle

Growing community of inventors

Saitama, Japan

Tatsuya Tokuda