US 12,233,766 B2
Connection bar mounting structure and vehicle seat
Takayuki Asakura, Tokyo (JP); Akihide Onodera, Tokyo (JP); Satoshi Obara, Tokyo (JP); Hiroshi Eguchi, Yokohama (JP); Hiroyuki Yasui, Yokohama (JP); Nilesh Firke, Maharashtra (IN); Ajeet Tasagave, Maharashtra (IN); and Abhinav Chaubey, Maharashtra (IN)
Assigned to Adient US LLC, Plymouth, MI (US); Subaru Corporation, Tokyo (JP); and Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aichi (JP)
Filed by Adient Engineering and IP GmbH, Burscheid (DE); Subaru Corporation, Tokyo (JP); and Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Apr. 21, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/660,082.
Claims priority of application No. 202141019295 (IN), filed on Apr. 27, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0340056 A1, Oct. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. B60N 2/50 (2006.01); B60N 2/68 (2006.01)
CPC B60N 2/507 (2013.01) [B60N 2/682 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
3. A vehicle seat, comprising:
a seat cushion frame attachable to a floor of a vehicle, the seat cushion frame configured to be raised and lowered relative to the floor, wherein
the seat cushion frame comprises:
a pair of side frames spaced apart in a width direction of the vehicle seat;
a pair of link members, each link member including a first hole part in a middle part, each link member including a first fixation part on a first end, the first fixation part rotatably supported by each of the pair of side frames, and a second fixation part on a second end opposite to the first fixation part across the first hole part, the second fixation part rotatably supported by a vehicle member; and
a connection bar, each end of the connection bar fixed to the first hole part of each of the pair of link members, wherein
each of the pair of link members includes a first bending rigidity reduced section between the middle part and the first fixation part and a second bending rigidity reduced section between the middle part and the second fixation part, the first and second bending rigidity reduced sections having bending rigidity smaller than those of the middle part, the first fixation part, and the second fixation part.