IP Library Granted Patent US 7,533,941
Granted Patent B2
US 7,533,941 · App. 11/783,352 · Granted May 19, 2009

Seat pad for vehicle

Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
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Patent No.
US 7,533,941
App. No.
11/783,352
Granted
May 19, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

Seating comfort is improved in a seat pad for vehicles includes a pad main body having a bottom dented upward to form a concave portion and having an insert arranged in the concave portion. The seat pad for vehicles 10 includes a cushion pad. The cushion pad includes a pad main body 20 , an insert 30 , and a rigid layer 40 . The pad main body 20 has a concave portion 24 . The insert 30 fits in the concave portion 24 . The rigid layer 40 is bonded with the ceiling plane of the concave portion 24 . The insert 30 has many protrusions 31 on its top face, and gaps between the protrusions 31 constitute a space 32 . The space 32 communicates with a seating plane through holes 27 and communicates with the seating plane of the insert 30 through a through hole 33.

Claims (24)

1. A seat pad for vehicles, comprising:

a pad main body having a bottom dented upward to form a concave portion; and

an insert arranged in the concave portion,

wherein the seat pad further includes:

a space between a ceiling plane of the concave portion and a top face of the insert;

a rigid layer arranged along the ceiling plane of the concave portion; and

at least one hole penetrating the pad main body and the rigid layer so as to communicate the space to a seating face of the pad main body.

2. The seat pad for vehicles according to claim 1 , wherein the insert has a multiplicity of protrusions on its top face, and wherein gaps between the protrusions constitute the space.

3. The seat pad for vehicles according to claim 1 ,

wherein the insert has a plurality of grooves, and

wherein inner spaces in the grooves constitute the space.

4. The seat pad for vehicles according to claim 3 , wherein the grooves extend in a longitudinal direction or a crosswise direction.

5. The seat pad for vehicles according to claim 1 , wherein the seat pad comprises a plurality of the holes.

6. The seat pad for vehicles according to claim 1 , further comprising a communication part configured to communicate the space to the bottom of the seat pad for vehicles.

7. The seat pad for vehicles according to claim 6 , wherein the communication part penetrates the insert.

8. The seat pad for vehicles according to claim 1 , wherein the space is arranged below an under-buttocks section.

9. The seat pad for vehicles according to claim 8 , wherein holes are arranged on the left and right sides of the under-buttocks section.

10. The seat pad for vehicles according to claim 1 , wherein the rigid layer comprises an article impregnated with a resin.

11. A seat pad for vehicles comprising a pad main body having a concave portion in one of a seating face and a backside opposite to the seating face, and an insert arranged in the concave portion,

wherein the seat pad further includes a rigid layer on at least part of an interface between the concave portion and the insert, the rigid layer configured to control a deflection upon seating, and

wherein the seat pad for vehicles comprises a resin foam, wherein the rigid layer includes an article impregnated with a resin constituting the resin foam, and wherein the impregnation with the resin is carried out simultaneously with the foaming of the resin.

12. The seat pad for vehicles according to claim 11 , wherein the article comprises a nonwoven fabric, a woven fabric, a hair felt, a victoria lawn, a “Warifu”, or a gas-permeable porous resin foam.

13. The seat pad for vehicles according to claim 11 , wherein the rigid layer is integrated with the pad main body.

14. The seat pad for vehicles according to claim 11 , wherein the rigid layer is integrated with the insert.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 13, 2007
From: SAITOU, TOMOKAZU; EBE, KAZUSHIGE
To: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 019496/0253 →
Priority Claims (3)
JP 2005-237874 · Aug 18, 2005 · national
JP 2005-244521 · Aug 25, 2005 · national
JP 2006-106504 · Apr 7, 2006 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTJP200631546600 · Aug 4, 2006
Related Publication 20070241604A1 · Oct 18, 2007