US 12,454,238 B2
Vehicle seat and manufacturing method for the same
Hideki Usami, Tochigi (JP)
Assigned to TS TECH CO., LTD., Asaka (JP)
Filed by TS TECH CO., LTD., Asaka (JP)
Filed on Nov. 18, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/951,319.
Application 18/501,378 is a division of application No. 17/748,375, filed on May 19, 2022, granted, now 11,840,189, issued on Dec. 12, 2023.
Application 18/951,319 is a continuation of application No. 18/501,378, filed on Nov. 3, 2023, granted, now 12,172,594.
Application 17/748,375 is a continuation of application No. 16/636,942, granted, now 11,358,552, issued on Jun. 14, 2022, previously published as PCT/JP2018/014053, filed on Apr. 2, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 2017-152508 (JP), filed on Aug. 7, 2017; application No. 2017-152514 (JP), filed on Aug. 7, 2017; application No. 2017-152522 (JP), filed on Aug. 7, 2017; and application No. 2017-152525 (JP), filed on Aug. 7, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2025/0074348 A1, Mar. 6, 2025
Int. Cl. B60R 21/207 (2006.01); B60N 2/68 (2006.01); B60R 21/2165 (2011.01); B60R 21/217 (2011.01); B60R 21/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60R 21/207 (2013.01) [B60N 2/68 (2013.01); B60R 21/2165 (2013.01); B60R 21/217 (2013.01); B60R 2021/0032 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle seat provided with a seat cushion and a seat back, wherein the seat back comprises:
a seat back frame including a pair of left and right side frames extending in a vertical direction and an upper frame connecting upper ends of the side frames to each other;
an airbag module supported to an upper half of the seat back frame via a bracket; and
a skin member covering the seat back frame, the bracket, and the airbag module from a rear side thereof, and
wherein a part of the skin member corresponding to the airbag module is provided with a breakable portion configured to open upon inflation of an airbag;
the bracket is joined to the upper frame;
the bracket defines a housing portion for housing the airbag module;
the airbag module includes the airbag, an inflator configured to inflate the airbag causing the airbag to protrude from the back of the seatback and deploy rearward and obliquely upward;
the bracket is positioned to partially overlap the upper frame in a vertical direction; and
the bracket is joined to the seatback frame at a pair of left and right upper tongues provided at upper edges of the bracket, and at a pair of left and right lower tongues provided at lower parts of the bracket.