Granted Patent B2

US 12,384,278 · App. 18/083,626 · Granted Aug 12, 2025

Inventors: Takeyuki Suzuki (Tokyo, JP); Kohei Okimoto (Tokyo, JP)

Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.

B60N2/0248

Abstract

Claims (32)

1. A vehicle seat comprising:

a seat that includes a seat cushion and a seat back;

an inclination drive portion configured to incline the seat back; and

a slide mechanism configured to enable the seat to slide in a vehicle front-rear direction, wherein

the slide mechanism includes

a slide rail that includes an upper rail fixed to the seat and a lower rail fixed to a vehicle body floor and slidably movable in a front-rear direction with respect to the lower rail, the slide rail supporting the seat to be able to move in a sliding manner in the front-rear direction,

a slide drive portion configured to enable the upper rail to slide with respect to the lower rail, and

a mode switching switch configured to drive the slide drive portion to enable switching between a normal mode during driving and a relaxing mode,

in the normal mode, a slide range of the seat in the front-rear direction is a slide amount used when the vehicle is driven,

in the relaxing mode, the slide range of the seat in the front-rear direction is rearward, with respect to a slide position at a rearmost end in the normal mode, and

when the relaxing mode is switched to the normal mode by the mode switching switch,

in a case where the seat back is inclined in the relaxing mode, the inclination drive portion is first driven to raise the seat back to an inclination position in the normal mode, and then the slide drive portion is driven to move the seat forward to the slide position in the normal mode.

2. The vehicle seat according to claim 1 , wherein

in the relaxing mode,

a rear end of the upper rail is at a slide position of the seat protruding rearward with respect to a rear end of the lower rail, and

a rear end of a gravity center range applied to the seat cushion from a seated driver in the normal mode is set to a slide position of the seat located behind the rear end of the lower rail.

3. The vehicle seat according to claim 1 , wherein

within the slide range of the seat in the front-rear direction in the normal mode,

at a foremost slide position, a front end of the upper rail protrudes forward with respect to a front end of the lower rail, and a wrap amount between the upper rail and the lower rail is half or more of a front-rear direction dimension of the lower rail,

at a rearmost slide position, the front end of the upper rail protrudes forward with respect to the front end of the lower rail, a rear end of the upper rail protrudes rearward with respect to a rear end of the lower rail, and the wrap amount between the upper rail and the lower rail becomes an entire front-rear direction dimension of the lower rail, and

at the rearmost slide position within the slide position of the seat in the front-rear direction in the relaxing mode, the rear end of the upper rail protrudes rearward with respect to the rear end of the lower rail, and the wrap amount between the upper rail and the lower rail is ⅔ or less of a front-rear direction dimension of the lower rail.

4. The vehicle seat according to claim 1 , wherein

in the relaxing mode,

a front-rear direction position of a hip point in the seat cushion is set to a slide position of the seat behind a rear end of the lower rail.

5. The vehicle seat according to claim 4 , wherein

the seat includes a lifting portion configured to lift up a rear portion of a seat surface of the seat cushion in the relaxing mode, and

when the relaxing mode is switched to the normal mode by the mode switch,

in a case where the seat back is inclined in the relaxing mode, the inclination drive portion is first driven to raise the seat back to the inclination position in the normal mode, and then the lifting portion is driven to move the rear portion of the seat surface of the seat cushion downward to a position of the normal mode.

6. The vehicle seat according to claim 5 , wherein

regarding a moving speed of the seat in the front-rear direction by the slide drive portion, a moving speed at a time of switching between the normal mode and the relaxing mode is higher than a moving speed in the normal mode.

7. The vehicle seat according to claim 6 , wherein

the vehicle body floor includes a footrest low floor portion hidden by the seat in the normal mode and usable by a seated driver in the relaxing mode.

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