Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Tachi-s Co., Ltd.

Yohei Mabashi

Toshiki Igarashi

Kazuya Imayou

Mutsuo Muramatsu

Yoshiyuki Shimomura

Shigeya Fujino

Makoto Miyabata

Masaaki Honda

Katsuhiko Sasaki

Yayoi Hirano

Shinji Hara

Masao Ishihara

Toyoaki Kato

Kenichi Sugimoto

Tsunenori Kishimoto

A seating apparatus for a vehicle, in which a seat cushion supported on the vehicle body by a link member can be flipped up toward the front of the vehicle from a use position and which includes a locking mechanism that operates only when the seat cushion is acted upon by an inertial force greater than a predetermined force in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, to temporarily prevent the seat cushion from flipping up. The locking mechanism includes a locking plate supported on the seat cushion and rockable in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle between a normal position and a rocked position, and a spring for urging the locking plate toward the normal position. The locking plate locks the seat cushion to the link member when it is moved inertially to the rocked position against the force of the spring, to prevent the seat cushion from flipping up, and the locking plate unlocks the seat cushion when it is located in the normal position.

Seating apparatus for vehicle

A double-folding-type automotive seat including: a seat cushion having a forward end portion rotatably mounted on a floor of the automobile and an engagement piece provided to a rear end portion of the seat cushion, the engagement piece being normally disposed near to the floor of the automobile and displaceable with the seat cushion; a seat back having a lower end portion rotatably mounted on the floor of the automobile; and a headrest detachably mounted on a top portion of said seat back. In that seat, at a bottom surface of the headrest, there is provided a headrest attaching portion so configured to permit insertion therein of the aforesaid engagement piece of the seat cushion.

Double-folding-type automotive seat with headrest

A part of the planar member, which is defined by the slits and extends over the center groove made in a seat pad, serves as a bridge part. As the sewn part of a trim cover is pulled into the groove, the bridge part is pressed onto the sewn part of the trim cover and pulled into the groove, together with the sewn part, and is bend in the form like letter U and held in the groove. The groove defines a through hole penetrating the seat pad at the bridge part of the planar member. The bridge part is not pressed onto the bottom of the groove even if the seat pad undergoes compressive deformation and is pressed down in the groove, because the groove has no bottom at some parts.

Vehicle seat

A knee bolster whose load receiving parts absorb load from the knees of seated occupants of various physical sizes is provided. An upper knee bolster and a lower knee bolster are each provided with a load receiving part that receives load from the knees of a seated occupant who moves forward in the direction of vehicle length in the event of a vehicle head-on collision, and a deforming part that moves the load receiving part, which has been deformed by the load, forward in the direction of vehicle length.

Knee bolster

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Okazaki, Japan

Yohei Mabashi