IP Library Granted Patent US 11,130,429
Granted Patent B2
US 11,130,429 · App. 16/527,201 · Granted Sep 28, 2021

Vehicle seat

Inventors: Mitsuyoshi Ohno (Miyoshi, JP); Makoto Sekizuka (Toyota, JP); Hiroyuki Suzuki (Toyohashi, JP)
Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA; TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
B60N2/42745B60N2/002B60N2/06B60N2/2209B60N2/4279B60R21/01552B60R21/01554B60R21/01538B60R2021/0006
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Patent No.
US 11,130,429
App. No.
16/527,201
Granted
Sep 28, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A vehicle seat includes: a seat main body that includes a seat cushion and a seatback that is connected to a seat rear side end portion of the seat cushion and that is rotatable in a seat front-rear direction with respect to the seat cushion; and a lifter device that moves the seat main body in a seat up-down direction, wherein the seat main body is moved toward a seat upper side by the lifter device in a case in which a reclining angle of the seatback is greater than a predetermined angle and the seat main body is lower than a predetermined height.

Claims (16)

1. A vehicle seat comprising:

a seat main body that includes a seat cushion and a seatback that is connected to a seat rear side end portion of the seat cushion and that is rotatable in a seat front-rear direction with respect to the seat cushion; and

a lifter device that moves the seat main body in a seat up-down direction,

wherein the seat main body is moved toward a seat upper side by the lifter device in a case in which a reclining angle of the seatback is greater than a predetermined angle and the seat main body is lower than a predetermined height.

2. The vehicle seat of claim 1 , wherein the reclining angle when the seat main body is moved toward the seat upper side by the lifter device is greater than a range that is set for times of usual driving.

3. The vehicle seat of claim 1 , wherein the greater the reclining angle of the seatback, the higher the lifter device makes a height of the seat main body.

4. The vehicle seat of claim 1 , further comprising a vehicle occupant detection sensor that detects or infers a height of a head portion of a vehicle occupant seated in the seat main body,

wherein, in a case in which the height of the head portion of the vehicle occupant that is detected or inferred by the vehicle occupant detection sensor, with respect to the seat main body, is lower than a predetermined height, a threshold value of a reclining angle for a time of operating the lifter device is made to be smaller than in a case in which the height of the head portion is higher than the predetermined height.

5. The vehicle seat of claim 1 , wherein, in a case in which the reclining angle of the seatback is greater than the predetermined angle, the lifter device makes the seat main body able to move further upward than in a case in which the reclining angle of the seatback is smaller than the predetermined angle.

6. The vehicle seat of claim 1 , wherein the seat main body is moved toward a seat lower side by the lifter device in a case in which the reclining angle of the seatback is smaller than the predetermined angle and the seat main body is higher than the predetermined height.

7. The vehicle seat of claim 4 , wherein:

the vehicle occupant detection sensor includes a weight sensor that is provided at an interior of the seat cushion and that is configured to detect a body weight of the vehicle occupant seated in the seat main body, and

the height of the head portion of the vehicle occupant is inferred from the body weight of the vehicle occupant that is detected by the weight sensor.

8. The vehicle seat of claim 4 , wherein:

the vehicle occupant detection sensor includes a seat sliding sensor that is configured to detect an amount of sliding of the seat main body toward a vehicle rear side, and

the vehicle occupant detection sensor infers that a physique of the vehicle occupant is small in a case in which the amount of sliding toward the vehicle rear side that is detected by the seat sliding sensor is small.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 31, 2019
From: OHNO, MITSUYOSHI; SEKIZUKA, MAKOTO; SUZUKI, HIROYUKI
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA; TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 049914/0872 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2018-170910 · Sep 12, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20200079255A1 · Mar 12, 2020
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