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US 10,315,547 · App. 15/626,703 · Granted Jun 11, 2019

Vehicle seat device and intake and exhaust valve device

Inventors: Akiyoshi Shibata (Nagoya, JP); Yuki Fujii (Obu, JP); Hiroyuki Oda (Hamamatsu, JP); Shunsuke Hayakawa (Obu, JP)
Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
B60N2/914B60N2/665
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Patent No.
US 10,315,547
App. No.
15/626,703
Granted
Jun 11, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A vehicle seat device includes: a plurality of air bags configured to be provided inside a seat; a flow path having a shared section to communicate with each of the air bags; a plurality of intake valves each of which is arranged at a flow path position at an upstream of each of the air bags when air is pumped into each of the air bags; a plurality of exhaust valves arranged at flow path positions communicating with the shared section; and a control device configured to control operations of the intake valves and the exhaust valves, in which the control device adjusts a discharge speed of internal air by selectively opening the exhaust valves when the internal air of each of the air bags is discharged.

Claims (16)

1. A vehicle seat device comprising:

a plurality of air bags configured to be provided inside a seat;

a flow path having a shared section to communicate with each of the air bags;

a plurality of intake valves each of which is arranged at a flow path position at an upstream of each of the air bags;

a plurality of exhaust valves arranged at flow path positions communicating with the shared section; and

a control device configured to control operations of the intake valves and the exhaust valves,

wherein the intake valves are partitioned into a plurality of intake valve groups and at least one of the exhaust valves is provided in each of the intake valve groups, and

wherein the control device adjusts a discharge speed of internal air by selecting a number of the exhaust valves to be opened according to an internal capacity of each of the air bags from which the internal air is discharged when the internal air of each of the air bags is discharged.

2. The vehicle seat device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the control device increases a number of the exhaust valves to be opened according to an internal capacity of each of the air bags from which the internal air is discharged.

3. The vehicle seat device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the control device increases a number of the exhaust valves to be opened according to a discharge amount of the internal air.

4. The vehicle seat device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the plurality of exhaust valves have different exhaust flow rates.

5. The vehicle seat device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the control device executes an away control of shifting the plurality of air bags to a contracted state, and the away control includes selecting a full opening state in which all of the exhaust valves communicating with the shared section are opened.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 19, 2017
From: SHIBATA, AKIYOSHI; FUJII, YUKI; ODA, HIROYUKI; HAYAKAWA, SHUNSUKE
To: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 042748/0606 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2016-124973 · Jun 23, 2016 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20170368968A1 · Dec 28, 2017
Cited By (2)
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