IP Library Granted Patent US 10,843,610
Granted Patent B2
US 10,843,610 · App. 15/800,519 · Granted Nov 24, 2020

Vehicle seat

Inventors: Keita Iwasaki (Toyota, JP); Keisuke Toda (Kariya, JP)
Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA; TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
B60N2/914B60N2/806B60N2/885B60N2002/899
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Patent No.
US 10,843,610
App. No.
15/800,519
Granted
Nov 24, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A vehicle seat includes a headrest body provided at an upper portion of a seat back rotatably supported by a seat cushion on which an occupant is seated. The headrest body is covered with a skin material. The headrest body includes a driving body that is configured to form a swelling portion that is a portion of the skin material in a seat-height direction swelling toward a front side of the seat at a surface of a seat front side of the skin material and change a formation position of the swelling portion in the seat-height direction by being operated inside the headrest body.

Claims (22)

1. A vehicle seat comprising:

a headrest body provided at an upper portion of a seat back rotatably supported by a seat cushion on which an occupant is seated, wherein:

the headrest body is covered with a skin material; and

the headrest body includes a driving body that is configured to form a swelling portion that is a portion of the skin material in a seat-height direction swelling toward a front side of the seat at a surface of a seat front side of the skin material and change a formation position of the swelling portion in the seat-height direction by being operated inside the headrest body, the driving body including a plurality of airbags, wherein:

a first airbag is included in the plurality of airbags, the first airbag having a first width in a seat-width direction in an inflated state and being disposed at a first position in the seat-height direction,

a second airbag is included in the plurality of airbags, the second airbag having a second width in the seat-width direction in an inflated state that is equal to the first width and being disposed adjacent to the first airbag and below the first airbag at a second position lower than the first position in the seat-height direction,

a third airbag is included in the plurality of airbags, the third airbag having a third width in the seat-width direction in an inflated state that is greater than the first width and being disposed adjacent to the second airbag and below the second airbag at a third position lower than the second position in the seat-height direction,

a lower end portion of the first air bag and an upper end portion of the second airbag are overlapped with each other in a seat front-rear direction,

a lower end portion of the second airbag and an upper end portion of the third airbag are overlapped with each other in the seat front-rear direction,

each of the first air bag and the second airbag are independently inflatable, and

the driving body is disposed between a headrest cushion and the skin material in the seat front-rear direction.

2. The vehicle seat according to claim 1 , wherein the airbags are arranged in the seat-height direction and configured to be inflated by air being supplied into the airbags.

3. The vehicle seat according to claim 2 , wherein at least two of the plurality of airbags are respectively disposed at both sides of the headrest body in a seat-width direction.

4. The vehicle seat according to claim 2 , wherein the plurality of airbags includes a fourth airbag, the third and fourth airbags being disposed at the same position in the seat-height direction, and the third airbag is disposed at a different position in a seat-width direction than the fourth airbag.

5. The vehicle seat according to claim 1 , wherein the skin material of the headrest body is configured to be continuous with the skin material that covers the seat back.

6. The vehicle seat according to claim 1 , wherein the driving body includes an up-down adjusting motor configured to adjust a position of the swelling portion in the seat-height direction, and a front-rear adjusting motor configured to adjust a position of the swelling portion in a seat front-rear direction.

7. A vehicle seat comprising:

a headrest body provided at an upper portion of a seat back rotatably supported by a seat cushion on which an occupant is seated, wherein:

the headrest body is covered with a skin material;

the headrest body includes a driving body that is configured to form a swelling portion that is a portion of the skin material in a seat-height direction swelling toward a front side of the seat at a surface of a seat front side of the skin material and change a formation position of the swelling portion in the seat-height direction by being operated inside the headrest body; and

the driving body includes an up-down adjusting motor disposed inside of the headrest body and configured to adjust a position of the swelling portion in the seat-height direction, and a front-rear adjusting motor configured to adjust a position of the swelling portion in a seat front-rear direction, wherein

a shape of the skin material changes in response to a change in the position of the swelling portion in the seat-height direction by the up-down adjusting motor and the position of the swelling portion in the seat front-rear direction by the front-rear adjusting motor.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 1, 2017
From: IWASAKI, KEITA; TODA, KEISUKE
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA; TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 044347/0329 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2016-221926 · Nov 14, 2016 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20180134189A1 · May 17, 2018