Vehicle seat
A part of the planar member, which is defined by the slits and extends over the center groove made in a seat pad, serves as a bridge part. As the sewn part of a trim cover is pulled into the groove, the bridge part is pressed onto the sewn part of the trim cover and pulled into the groove, together with the sewn part, and is bend in the form like letter U and held in the groove. The groove defines a through hole penetrating the seat pad at the bridge part of the planar member. The bridge part is not pressed onto the bottom of the groove even if the seat pad undergoes compressive deformation and is pressed down in the groove, because the groove has no bottom at some parts.
1. A vehicle seat, comprising:
a seat pad comprising a groove, cut in an upper surface of the seat pad and extending in a specific direction; a plurality of spaced through holes provided at a bottom of the groove and extending down through a bottom surface of the seat pad;
a suspension wire embedded in the seat pad below the groove and bent around the spaced through holes;
a trim cover covering the seat pad and having a suspender sewn to the trim cover;
a planar member located between the seat pad and the trim cover;
wherein
slits are cut in the planar member in alignment with the grooves and those parts of the planar member which extend over the groove serve as bridge parts and are aligned with the spaced through holes; and
the suspender of the trim cover hangs down into the grooves through the slits, is fastened to the suspension wire, is pulled into the grooves and thereby stretches the trim cover, wherein the bridge parts extend down into the grooves but, due to the through holes, do not contact the bottom of the groove.