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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2014
Applicant:
Sumitomo Riko Company Limited, Aichi, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sumitomo Riko Company Limited, Aichi, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47C 7/02 (2006.01); B60N 2/02 (2006.01); H03K 17/96 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60N 2/0228 (2013.01); H03K 17/962 (2013.01); H03K 2217/960755 (2013.01);
Abstract
Provided is a power seat device in which an operator can intuitively recognize an operation of a movable member. Operation units are provided in movable members in a power seat body. Each of the operation units includes a pair of electrodes and a dielectric layer formed between the pair of electrodes so as to be compressively deformable, and compressively deforms the dielectric layer by an operator's push operation. Driving devices are controlled so that the movable members move in the push direction of the operator based on the capacitance between the pair of electrodes changing with the compressive deformation of the dielectric layer.