US 12,403,797 B2
Seat device
Shunya Ebina, Shizuoka (JP); Masanobu Nakane, Shizuoka (JP); and Yutaka Nagao, Shizuoka (JP)
Assigned to KOITO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD, Shizuoka (JP)
Appl. No. 18/254,873
Filed by KOITO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Shizuoka (JP)
PCT Filed Nov. 10, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/041297
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 29, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/113737, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 2, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-198656 (JP), filed on Nov. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0415619 A1, Dec. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. B60N 2/14 (2006.01); B60N 2/06 (2006.01); B60N 2/20 (2006.01)
CPC B60N 2/14 (2013.01) [B60N 2/06 (2013.01); B60N 2/20 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A seat device that can convert a state of a seat disposed in a vehicle, comprising:
a reclining mechanism that can tilt a backrest of the seat;
an operation unit that enables or disables an operation of the reclining mechanism to tilt the backseat;
a lock mechanism that restrains the operation unit to disable the operation when the seat is arranged in a specific state relative to the vehicle; and
a cable that is pulled when the seat is arranged in the specific state,
wherein the operation unit can be displaced from an initial position to an operation position at a time of the operation,
the lock mechanism includes a stopper that is linearly moved to be engaged with and released from the operation unit in the initial position, and
the stopper is connected to the cable to be linearly moved from an ordinary unrestrained position at which the operation unit is unrestrained from the lock mechanism to enable the operation to a restrained position at which the operation unit is restrained by the lock mechanism to disable the operation.