US 12,330,538 B2
Vehicle seat
Naoya Okamoto, Aichi-ken (JP); and Takuya Mizuno, Aichi-ken (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed on May 23, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/200,667.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-089533 (JP), filed on Jun. 1, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0391231 A1, Dec. 7, 2023
Int. Cl. B60N 2/08 (2006.01)
CPC B60N 2/08 (2013.01) 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle seat comprising:
a seat main body that performs a slide operation and a predetermined operation independent of the slide operation;
a lock mechanism portion that restricts the predetermined operation of the seat main body;
an operation portion that is operated by an occupant to cause the lock mechanism portion to perform an unlock operation;
a first member to which an operation force from the operation portion is transmitted;
a second member that transmits the operation force toward the lock mechanism portion; and
an intermediate member that is disposed, when the seat main body is slid to a specific position, at a first position with respect to the first member and the second member and at which the intermediate member is engaged with the first member and the second member, and performs transmission of the operation force from the first member to the second member, the intermediate member being disposed, when the seat main body is slid to a position different from the specific position, at a second position with respect to the first member and the second member and at which the intermediate member is disengaged from the first member and the second member, and interrupts the transmission of the operation force from the first member to the second member.