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Granted Patent B2
US 8,985,696 · App. 13/620,279 · Granted Mar 24, 2015

Vehicle seat

Inventors: Kenzo Yasuda (Yokohama, JP); Ryosuke Hayashi (Yokohama, JP)
Assignee: NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
B60N2/682B60N2/686B60N2205/30
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Patent No.
US 8,985,696
App. No.
13/620,279
Granted
Mar 24, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

A vehicle seat comprising a fastened member and a fastening member. The fastened member comprising a fastened member-side base section formed from metal, and a fastened member-side reinforcement section formed from fiber reinforced plastic (FRP), laminated in a sheet thickness direction over the whole of the fastened member-side base section so as to reinforce the fastened member-side base section. The fastening member comprising a fastening member-side base section formed from metal, and a fastening member-side reinforcement section formed from FRP, laminated in a sheet thickness direction over the whole of the fastening member-side base section so as to reinforce the fastening member-side base section. The fastening member is fastened to the fastened member by bringing the fastening member-side base section into contact with the fastened member-side base section.

Claims (14)

1. A vehicle seat comprising:

a fastened member comprising,

a fastened member-side base section formed from metal, and

a fastened member-side reinforcement section formed from fiber reinforced plastic (FRP), laminated in a sheet thickness direction over the whole of the fastened member-side base section so as to reinforce the fastened member-side base section; and

a fastening member comprising,

a fastening member-side base section formed from metal, and

a fastening member-side reinforcement section formed from FRP, laminated in a sheet thickness direction over the whole of the fastening member-side base section so as to reinforce the fastening member-side base section;

wherein the fastening member is fastened to the fastened member by bringing the fastening member-side base section into contact with the fastened member-side base section;

wherein an exposed portion is provided only at the fastened member-side reinforcement section and/or the fastening member-side reinforcement section so as to expose a portion of the fastened member-side base section and/or the fastening member-side base section; and

wherein a projection portion is provided at the fastened member-side base section and/or the fastening member-side base section, projecting out towards an exposed portion side and being disposed inside the exposed portion.

2. The vehicle seat of claim 1 , wherein at a fastening location of the fastened member and the fastening member, an adhesive is interposed between the fastened member-side base section and the fastening member-side base section and the fastened member and the fastening member are also fastened by welding.

3. The vehicle seat of claim 1 , wherein the fastening member configures a lower panel of a seatback frame of the vehicle seat and the fastened member configures a pair of side frames of the seatback frame of the vehicle seat.

4. The vehicle seat of claim 1 , wherein the fastening member configures an upper cross-member of a seatback frame of the vehicle seat and the fastened member configures a pair of side frames of the seatback frame of the vehicle seat.

5. The vehicle seat of claim 1 , wherein the exposed portion is configured by a hole formed through the fastened member-side reinforcement section and/or the fastening member-side reinforcement section.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 20, 2015
From: YASUDA, KENZO; HAYASHI, RYOSUKE
To: NHK SPRING CO, LTD.
Reel/Frame 034755/0723 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2011-206183 · Sep 21, 2011 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20130069415A1 · Mar 21, 2013