Mazda Motor Corporation

Delta Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Toyo Seat Co., Ltd.

Teiji Hiyori

Hiroki Uemura

Tomonori Ohtsubo

Takushi Ujimoto

Keisuke Iida

Terumi Akazawa

Reiji Kikuchi

A movable floor device for a vehicle, which comprises a movable board disposed beneath feet of an occupant seated in an occupant seat, a drive source disposed below the occupant seat, and a driving-force transmission mechanism adapted, according to a driving force of the drive source, to input a force directed in a selected one of frontward and rearward directions of a vehicle body, into a rear portion of the movable board. The movable board is supported in such a manner as to be selectively displaced upwardly and downwardly in response to respective ones of the frontward and rearward forces input from the driving-force transmission mechanism. The movable floor apparatus of the present invention makes it possible to allow a lowermost height position of a movable board to be set at a lower level so as to cope with various seating postures with enhanced flexibility.

Movable floor apparatus for vehicle

A vehicle seat assembly comprises a coupling membercoupling a front end of a seat-cushion frameto an upper rail, a rear link memberprovided in a rear end of the seat-cushion frame, and a support memberprovided on the side of a vehicle body to support the rear link member. The rear link memberincludes a pivoted portionpivotally supported by the upper rail, a coupled portioncoupled to the rear end of the seat-cushion frame, and an engaged portion engaged with the support member. The support memberincludes a sliding drive portion (sliding groove) which slidably supports the engaged portion of the rear link memberto allow the rear link memberto be swingingly displaced in conjunction with a longitudinal movement of the seat-cushion frame, so as to move the coupled portionin an upward/downward direction to drivingly lift and lower the rear end of the seat-cushion frame. The vehicle seat assembly of the present invention can effectively a height position of a seat cushion in conjunction with an operation of adjusting a longitudinal position of an occupant seat in conformity to occupant's physique or the like.

Vehicle seat assembly

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Fuchu-cho, Japan

Teiji Hiyori