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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 1991
Filed:
Sep. 25, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Masaaki Yokota, Akishima, JP;
Assignee:
Tachi-S Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47C / ; B60N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
297417 ; 74 971 ; 297113 ;
Abstract
An armrest for a vehicle seat, wherein armrest is rotatable between a use position for supporting an arm of an occupant and non-use position where the armrest body stands upright along the vertical direction of the seat back of the seat, under the force of a return spring, and wherein there is arranged a buffer means for reducing a rotation rate at which the armrest is rotated downwardly to the non-use position. Thus, the armrest body may be rotated at a moderate rate towards the non-use position, thereby avoiding a serious collision of the armrest body against a part of the vehicle.