US 11,872,911 B2
Vehicle seat
Yasutaka Abe, Tochigi (JP); and Yuta Sugaya, Tochigi (JP)
Assigned to TS TECH CO., LTD., Asaka (JP)
Filed by TS TECH CO., LTD., Asaka (JP)
Filed on Dec. 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/073,194.
Application 18/073,194 is a continuation of application No. 17/171,012, filed on Feb. 9, 2021, granted, now 11,529,891.
Application 17/171,012 is a continuation of application No. 16/321,156, granted, now 10,946,773, issued on Mar. 16, 2021, previously published as PCT/JP2017/013554, filed on Mar. 31, 2017.
Claims priority of application No. 2016-153141 (JP), filed on Aug. 3, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2023/0103332 A1, Apr. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. B60N 2/06 (2006.01); B60N 2/20 (2006.01); B60N 2/30 (2006.01); B60N 2/07 (2006.01)
CPC B60N 2/065 (2013.01) [B60N 2/06 (2013.01); B60N 2/0705 (2013.01); B60N 2/20 (2013.01); B60N 2/30 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle seat including a seat cushion and a seat back rotatably attached to the seat cushion, wherein the vehicle seat is capable of taking a stowed position in which the seat cushion is rotatably lifted away from a floor, the vehicle seat comprising:
a support member coupled to the floor and supporting the seat cushion via a support shaft; and
an urging device coupled to the support member and the seat cushion,
wherein the seat cushion includes a pair of right and left cushion side frames extending in the front-to-rear direction, a front member crossing and connecting respective front end portions of the cushion side frames, a rear member crossing and connecting respective rear end portions of the cushion side frames, and an intermediate member crossing and connecting respective intermediate portions between the respective front and rear end portions of the cushion side frames,
wherein a rear end of the support member is located rearward relative to the intermediate member and the support shaft is located forward relative to the intermediate member.