Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha

Tomohiro Muramatsu

Makoto Ito

Osamu Fujimoto

Robert Christopher Day

Yoshihiro Ooishi

Satoshi Yokoyama

Kazuyuki Shiga

Keisuke Yamamoto

Robert Day

A tiltable vehicle seat has a seat frame, a pad formed in a mold associated with the seat frame and a bracket attaching a seatback to the seat frame. The pad is formed through foaming to expand and engulf the seat frame and is integrated with the seat frame. The bracket allows for the seat frame and the pad contained therein to be tilted relative to the seatback to provide multiple vehicle seat modes. The bracket is formed separately from the seat frame and attached to the seat frame thus allowing for the pad to be formed from a relatively compact mold.

Vehicle seats

A vehicle seat is taught that preferably include a seat cushion (), a seat back () rotatably connected to the seat cushion via a reclining mechanism (), front () and rear () legs removably connecting the seat cushion to a vehicle floor (), a retracting link (), an operating member capable of removing the front and rear legs from the floor, and a coupling link (). The seat back can be rotated forwardly by unlocking the reclining mechanism, so as to be superimposed on the seat cushion. When the front and rear legs are removed from the floor, the seat can be moved from a use condition to a retracted condition depending on the motion of the retracting link. When the seat is moved from the use condition to the retracted condition, the coupling link rotates the front leg based on a displacement of the retracting link, thereby unlocking the reclining mechanism.

Vehicle seat

An operating lever is provided at one of a front face, an upper face, and a back face of a seat including a seat cushion and a seat back. The operating lever may include a first lever having a first end and a second end, and a second lever having a first end and a second end. The second end of the first lever and the first end of the second lever may be pivotably connected to each other, and the first end of the first lever may be pivotably connected to the seat such that the first lever is configured to change an attitude of the seat. In addition, the second end of the second lever may be formed as an operating portion, and when the operating portion is operated in a direction away from the seat, the first lever and the second lever pivot may away from the seat and the attitude of the seat is adjusted.

Operating lever of vehicular seat

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Nagoya, Japan

Tomohiro Muramatsu