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Toyota Shatai Kabushiki Kaisha

Yoshiro Suehiro

Masamitsu Iwatani

Yoshiyuki Miura

Kenji Murabayashi

Takafumi Hijikata

Tomoyuki Kuroda

Mineki Ninomiya

Yasuo Suga

Tadashi Takenoshita

Takeshi Toda

Shigeyuki Matsunaga

Masanori Iwao

Chikanori Fujita

Takayuki Tajima

Hiroyuki Kagei

Shoichi Uda

A lift-up mechanism ( ) installed inside a vehicle serves to move a seat unit ( ) into or out of the vehicle. The seat unit ( ) is used as a passenger seat inside the vehicle and as a wheelchair outside the vehicle. Connecting plates ( ) are disposed on the lift-up mechanism ( ) permit the lift-up mechanism ( ) to be connected to the seat unit ( ) by inserting the connecting plates into connecting recesses ( ) formed in the seat unit ( ). Front wheels ( ) and rear wheels ( ) of the seat unit ( ) can be retracted and extended. A drive unit having an electric motor or similar drive may be provided to retract and extend the front wheels ( ) and the rear wheels ( ). An attitude changing arrangement may be provided to automatically change the attitude of the front wheels ( ) when the front wheels ( ) and the rear wheels ( ) are retracted.

Vehicle seat

A longitudinal support base is provided with a rotating support base that can be slide in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle. A seat body is placed on the rotating support base via a rotary disc so as to rotate. The longitudinal support base is provided with an intermediate gear that is engaged with a rack extending in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle seat. The seat body side is provided with a pinion gear that is engaged with the intermediate gear The rotary disc is rotated by means of a driving force of an electric motor Thus, when the electric motor is rotated, the seat body rotates and slides in the longitudinal direction.

Rotating vehicle seat

A rotating vehicle seat allows space close to an occupant's feet to be used efficiently. The rotating seat has a seat body supported by a rotary disc The rotary disc is mounted at a position that is displaced to a door opening side with respect to a center HP of a seat cushion. A pinion gear an intermediate gear and a rack engage each other so that the rotational movement and the longitudinal movement of the seat body are coupled to each other.

Vehicular turning seat

Wheelchair with retractable wheels for conversion to vehicle passenger seat

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Kokubu, Japan

Yoshiro Suehiro