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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2019
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota Aichi-ken, JP;
Tetsuya Nagai, Okazaki, JP;
Takashi Sugimoto, Anjyo, JP;
Osamu Oda, Toyota, JP;
Kohshi Katoh, Toyota, JP;
Akira Takinami, Toyota, JP;
Masatoshi Hada, Nagakute, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle seat includes a lock-to-neutral-position mechanism that locks a seat cushion at a neutral position, and an immediate lock mechanism that locks the seat cushion immediately at a current position when locking is required. A steering sensor senses a steering angle and a steering angular velocity. The immediate lock mechanism performs the locking when the steering angle is large, whereas the lock-to-neutral-position mechanism performs the locking when the steering velocity is high. When the steering wheel is at the neutral position, the locking by the immediate lock mechanism is released and the locking is switched over to the lock-to-neutral-position mechanism that is in a lock ready state.