US 12,109,926 B2
Seat and assembling method therefor
Kazuya Aoki, Tochigi (JP); Kenta Kikuchi, Tochigi (JP); and Kei Okuma, Tochigi (JP)
Assigned to TS TECH CO., LTD., Asaka (JP)
Filed by TS TECH CO., LTD., Asaka (JP)
Filed on Jun. 20, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/337,814.
Application 18/337,814 is a continuation of application No. 17/782,503, granted, now 11,724,626, previously published as PCT/JP2021/008119, filed on Mar. 3, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-038508 (JP), filed on Mar. 6, 2020; and application No. 2020-038510 (JP), filed on Mar. 6, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0331126 A1, Oct. 19, 2023
Int. Cl. B60N 2/58 (2006.01); A47C 7/74 (2006.01); B60N 2/56 (2006.01); B60N 2/60 (2006.01)
CPC B60N 2/5825 (2013.01) [A47C 7/744 (2013.01); B60N 2/5621 (2013.01); B60N 2/6027 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A seat, comprising:
a pad having a groove which opens on a surface side, has a width and a depth, and extends in a prescribed direction;
a skin material covering the surface side of the pad in a thickness direction thereof; and
a skin locking clip embedded in the pad and configured to tuck in a prescribed linear portion of the skin material,
wherein the groove has a pair of opposing side surfaces, each of the side surfaces of the groove near a bottom thereof has an inclined surface directed to an inside in the width direction toward the bottom so as to be connected to a surface of the skin locking clip,
wherein the inclined surfaces have a first length in a cross section perpendicular to the prescribed direction, each side surface of the groove has a portion located closer to the surface side than the inclined surface, the portion has a second length extending in a direction of the depth, and the first length is shorter than the second length.