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US 12,319,228 · App. 18/313,373 · Granted Jun 3, 2025

Automobile antitheft device

Inventors: Atsushi Shiota (Toyota, JP); Yuuji Utou (Nagoya, JP)
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
B60R25/014B60N2/02246B60N2/06B60N2/16B60N2/20B60N2/12
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12,319,228
App. No.
18/313,373
Filed
May 8, 2023
Granted
Jun 3, 2025
Kind
B2
Art Unit
3636
USPC
297/1
Abstract

An automobile antitheft device is equipped with a seat frame installed between upper rails that are slidably supported by lower rails provided on a floor of a vehicle interior respectively, a seat cushion that is supported by the upper rails, that is configured to be able to rise and fall with respect to the upper rails, and that slides forward while falling when a cockpit is locked, and a seat back that is turnably supported by a back side of the seat cushion and that inclines forward when the cockpit is locked. A gap between a lower surface of the seat cushion and the seat frame is set as a gap that does not allow a connector provided below the seat cushion in front of the seat frame to be accessed from behind, when the cockpit is locked.

Claims (13)

1. An automobile antitheft device comprising:

a seat frame installed between a pair of right and left upper rails that are supported by a pair of right and left lower rails provided on a floor of a vehicle interior respectively, slidably in a longitudinal direction of a seat;

a seat cushion that is supported by the upper rails, that is configured to be able to rise and fall with respect to the upper rails, and that slides forward with respect to the seat while falling when a cockpit is locked; and

a seat back that is turnably supported by a back side of the seat cushion with respect to the seat, and that inclines forward when the cockpit is locked, wherein

a gap between a lower surface of the seat cushion and the seat frame is set as a gap that does not allow a connector that is provided below the seat cushion with respect to the seat in front of the seat frame with respect to the seat to be accessed from behind the seat, when the cockpit is locked.

2. The automobile antitheft device according to claim 1 , wherein

the seat cushion slides to a frontmost position and falls to a lowermost position when the cockpit is locked.

3. The automobile antitheft device according to claim 2 , wherein

outer end portions of the seat cushion that has fallen to the lowermost position in a seat width direction overlap with outer sides of the lower rails in the seat width direction, respectively, in a lateral view.

4. The automobile antitheft device according to claim 1 , wherein

the gap is equal to or smaller than 40 mm.

5. The automobile antitheft device according to claim 1 , wherein

the connector is at least one of a connector of a slide motor that slides the upper rails and a connector of a control device that stores a position of the seat cushion in driving an automobile.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 8, 2023
From: SHIOTA, ATSUSHI; UTOU, YUUJI
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 063559/0507 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2022-113525 · Jul 14, 2022 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20240017695A1 · Jan 18, 2024
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