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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2019
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota Aichi-ken, JP;
Tetsuya Nagai, Okazaki, JP;
Kohshi Katoh, Toyota, JP;
Takashi Sugimoto, Anjyo, JP;
Osamu Oda, Toyota, JP;
Masatoshi Hada, Nagakute, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota Aichi-ken, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle seat includes a seat cushion configured to support the buttocks of an occupant, a seat back configured to support the back of the occupant, an elastic force adjustment unit configured to adjust elastic force of a lumbar spine support of the seat back configured to support the lumbar spine of the occupant, in a longitudinal direction, and a controller configured to operate the elastic force adjustment unit. The controller is configured to make the elastic force larger in the case where oscillation of the vehicle is large, than that in the case where oscillation of the vehicle is small.