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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2000
Tetsuo Ikeda, Akishima, JP;
Takashi Kato, Akishima, JP;
Tachi-S Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An armrest for vehicle seat is provided, whose armrest body has a region so configured as to surround a connecting portion by which the armrest is rotatably connected with a seat back of the seat, wherein a cubic trim cover assembly of the armrest is formed with a local side defined on and along such region of armrest body. Formed in such local side of trim cover assembly is an injection hole for allowing injection of a liquid foaming material into the inside of trim cover assembly, so that the injection hole itself is not exposed outwardly of the armrest body, thus keeping the user away from contact with an objectionable spot originating from a part of liquid foaming material that has been leaked through the injection hole and cured there during a foaming process. The connecting portion may include a tubular bearing, and the injection hole may be formed at any point in that particular local side for coaxial alignment with the tubular bearing, during the foaming process, so that an injection nozzle may be introduced through the tubular bearing precisely into the injection hole.