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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2008
Teiji Mabuchi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Osamu Fujimoto, Nissin, JP;
Makoto Itou, Aichi-ken, JP;
Kei Matsui, Toyota, JP;
Yoshihiro Suda, Tokyo-to, JP;
Teiji Mabuchi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Osamu Fujimoto, Nissin, JP;
Makoto Itou, Aichi-ken, JP;
Kei Matsui, Toyota, JP;
Yoshihiro Suda, Tokyo-to, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Tohota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
With a vehicle seat arranging structure, a second-row passenger-side seat may be placed in a rearward slide position by sliding the second-row passenger-side seat toward the rear of a vehicle by 150 millimeters so that the second-row passenger-side seat is closer to the rear of the vehicle than the second-row driver-side seat. In addition, each of the second-row driver-side seat and the second-row passenger-side seat may be placed in an obliquely-inward frontward-oriented position by swiveling each of the second-row driver-side seat and the second-row passenger-side seat from the frontward-oriented position 10 degrees inward in the vehicle-width direction. In this way, the sense of distance between the occupants seated in the second-row driver-side seat and the second-row passenger-side seat is reduced. As a result, it is possible to promote communication between these occupants (to make it easier for these occupants to communicate with each other).