Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsui Minings & Melting Co., Ltd.

Mitsui Kinzoku Act Corporation

Toshikazu Araki

Naoya Seto

Hisashi Inoue

Masahito Minoura

Shinji Suzuki

Shigeo Kakuta

Kazunori Tahashi

Isao Shinagawa

Hisashi Nirasaki Factory Mitsui Mining And Inoue

Shigeo Nirasaki Factory Mitsui Mining Kakuta

Naoya Nirasaki Factory Seto

A hook member of a vehicle seat lock engages with a striker fixed to a vehicle body. An opening lever is pivotally secured to the first base plate to constitute the first subassembly. The hook member is pivotally secured to the second base plate to constitute the second subassembly. The first base plate is coupled to the second base plate. Between the first and second base plates, a sensing member is pivotally secured in parallel with the hook member to detect invasion of the striker in the hook member.

Vehicle seat lock

In a vehicle seat lock, a striker is mounted to a vehicle body and a hook member is mounted to the seat back. The striker comprises the first and second engagement portions which selectively engage in first and second engagement grooves of the hook member to hold the seat back in two kinds of standing positions. The hook member is pivotally secured on a pivot to open and molded with synthetic resin to buffer impacting of the striker.

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Toshikazu Araki