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Granted Patent B2
US 12,534,006 · App. 18/588,070 · Granted Jan 27, 2026

Vehicle seat

Inventors: Kensuke Mizoi (Tochigi, JP); Ryuzaburo Abe (Tochigi, JP); Kenichi Niitsuma (Tochigi, JP); Soichiro Tanaka (Tochigi, JP)
Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
B60N2/665B60N2/0284B60N2/64B60N2/80B60N2/914B60N2/99B60N2/995
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Patent No.
US 12,534,006
App. No.
18/588,070
Granted
Jan 27, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is to stabilize a fixed state of each bag body provided at a vehicle seat and configured to expand to push a corresponding one of the shoulders of a seated passenger. Of a seat back provided at the vehicle seat, each shoulder support configured to support a corresponding one of the shoulders of the seated passenger includes an air cell configured to expand by injection of air. The air cell includes protrusions extending in a predetermined direction and provided at respective end portions of the air bag in the extending direction thereof. The air cell is attached to the inside of the seat back in such a manner that each of the protrusions provided at respective end portions in the extending direction is fixed to a corresponding one of fixing positions separated from each other in the width direction of the vehicle seat.

Claims (15)

1 . A vehicle seat, comprising:

a seat back;

wherein:

the seat back comprises:

a pillar support portion configured to support a head rest pillar;

a shoulder support portion configured to support shoulders of a seated passenger; and

a bag body configured to expand by injection of fluid to expand the shoulder support potion,

the bag body includes a right bag body arranged on a right side in the seat back in a seat front view and a left bag body arranged on a left side in the seat back in the seat front view,

each of the right and left bag bodies includes transverse sides at both end portions in a longitudinal direction thereof, the transverse sides extending in a transverse direction that transverses the longitudinal direction,

the transverse sides are straight lines inclined with respect to a vertical direction,

a support body is provided in the seat back,

the each of the right and left bag bodies comprises fixing target portions at which the each of the right and left bag bodies is fixed to the support body,

the fixing target portions include tongue-shaped protrusions extending downward along the transverse direction and provided at the both end portions of the each of the right and left bag bodies in the longitudinal direction and at a lower end portion of the each of the right and left bag bodies,

an upper region of the each of the right and left bag bodies is not fixed, and

the each of the right and left bag bodies is configured to expand to project toward a seated passenger side by the injection of the fluid.

Priority Claims (1)
JP 2014-103593 · May 19, 2014 · national
Continuity (5)
Continuation 18316268 · May 12, 2023
Continuation 17156829 · Jan 25, 2021
Continuation 16432265 · Jun 5, 2019
Continuation 15312423
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