US 12,441,220 B2
Vehicle seat
Kensuke Yoshiga, Yokohama (JP); Hiroki Jineda, Yokohama (JP); Kenji Nagumo, Tokyo (JP); Fumito Kitanaka, Tokyo (JP); and Mitsutoshi Saito, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to NHK Spring Co., Ltd., Yokohama (JP); and SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by NHK SPRING CO., LTD., Yokohama (JP); and SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 13, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/508,129.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-182924 (JP), filed on Nov. 15, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0157862 A1, May 16, 2024
Int. Cl. B60N 2/58 (2006.01); B60N 2/20 (2006.01)
CPC B60N 2/58 (2013.01) [B60N 2/20 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle seat, comprising:
a seat cushion on which an occupant can sit, the seat cushion including an upward and downward movement mechanism configured to adjust a position of the seat cushion in a range between an upper most position and a lower most position in a seat vertical direction; and
a shielding member provided at a front end portion of the seat cushion, the shielding member having a seat shape and being configured to bend, and shielding a lower side of the seat cushion from a vehicle interior side,
wherein the shielding member includes:
an upper section joined to a seat skin, which covers a surface of the seat cushion and constitutes a design surface, and disposed at a lower surface side of the seat cushion,
a middle section disposed at a lower side of the upper section, provided with an inducing portion serving as a trigger for bending of the shielding member, and being configured to follow a movement, in the seat vertical direction, of the seat cushion by changing a bending angle at a bending start point portion that is bent by the inducing portion, and
a lower section disposed at a lower side of the middle section and disposed at the lower side of the seat cushion.