B60N2/5657

Movement adjustment system
11345261 · 2022-05-31 · ·

In order to suppress a claustrophobic feeling that a person sitting on a rear seat receives due to a front seat, and to make the front seat easy to use as an ottoman by the person, a movement adjustment system is used for a passenger seat and a rear seat, and includes a slide rail for moving the rear seat in the front to back direction, and a control part for changing the movement region of the rear seat by the slide rail. The passenger seat has a seat cushion, and a seat back mounted to be changeable between an upright state and a lowered state with respect to the seat cushion. The control part changes the movement region so that the passenger seat and the rear seat can come closer when the seat back of the passenger seat is in the lowered state than in the upright state.

VENTILATED SEAT AND METHOD OF MAKING
20230271536 · 2023-08-31 · ·

A ventilated seat includes a cushion pad, including a plurality of air distribution holes therethrough, and having a hook-loop fastener affixed thereto; a seat bottom including a main bottom cushion; a seat back operatively engaging the seat bottom and including a main back cushion; wherein one of the main bottom cushion and the main back cushion is comprised of a closed cell foam, includes a recess that is shaped to receive and orient the cushion pad therein, a ventilation passage for directing airflow from a climate control system to the recess, and a hook-loop fastener molded into the closed cell foam in the recess; and wherein the cushion pad is secured in the recess by the hook-loop fastener of the cushion pad operatively engaging the hook-loop fastener in the recess.

Vehicle seat including a duct
11338712 · 2022-05-24 · ·

A vehicle seat which can restrain displacement of a duct from a pad is provided. The vehicle seat includes a blower, the pad (P) including an air passage formed therein and a hole (B2) communicating with the air passage, the duct (100) connected to the hole (B2) and configured to connect the blower and the air passage, and a holding member (150) connected to the duct (100). The duct (100) includes a first tubular portion (133) positioned in the hole (B2), and a first flange (134) extending outward from the first tubular portion (133). The holding member (150) includes a second tubular portion (151) connected to the first tubular portion (133), and a second flange (152) extending outward from the second tubular portion (151). The first flange (134) and the second flange (152) hold the pad therebetween.

Padded and ventilated vehicle seat
11738671 · 2023-08-29 · ·

A vehicle seat which can restrain displacement of a duct from a pad is provided. The vehicle seat includes a blower, the pad (P) including an air passage formed therein and a hole (B2) communicating with the air passage, the duct (100) connected to the hole (B2) and configured to connect the blower and the air passage, and a holding member (150) connected to the duct (100). The duct (100) includes a first tubular portion (133) positioned in the hole (B2), and a first flange (134) extending outward from the first tubular portion (133). The holding member (150) includes a second tubular portion (151) connected to the first tubular portion (133), and a second flange (152) extending outward from the second tubular portion (151). The first flange (134) and the second flange (152) hold the pad therebetween.

SEAT
20230264614 · 2023-08-24 ·

A car seat includes an air outlet located in a seat upper portion (a portion provided above a seat cushion and including a seat back and a headrest) to let out air therethrough; an air inlet located in the seat upper portion to draw in air therethrough; at least one fan configured to produce a current of air flowing from the air outlet toward the air inlet at a front side of the seat upper portion; and a scenting device configured to scent air to be forced out through the air outlet. The air outlet and the air inlet are located in such positions that at least part of the headrest is positioned between the air outlet and the air inlet in a direction from the air outlet toward the air inlet as viewed from a front side.

Seat suspension with overmolded fan grille

A seat suspension with suspension strands which comprises a fan grille of plastic provided with anchoring points overmolded on at least some of the suspension strands.

Blower for ventilation seat having warm-air-blowing function and vehicular ventilation seat including the same

Proposed are a blower for a ventilation seat having a warm-air-blowing function and a vehicular ventilation seat including the same. The blower moves air supplied to the vehicular ventilation seat. The blower includes a housing having an accommodation space formed therein and including an inlet receiving air and an outlet discharging air, a motor mounted in the housing, an impeller mounted in the housing and configured to be driven by the motor to move air, a printed circuit board mounted in the housing, and a heater mounted in the housing so as to be connected to the printed circuit board and configured to heat the air flowing through the housing.

Vehicle seat equipped with air conditioning function
11325510 · 2022-05-10 · ·

In order to make it possible to deal with the states of a seatback from an upright state to a fully reclined state without degrading performance of blowing air from a fan, attached to a seat cushion-side, toward the seatback-side, this vehicle seat having an air conditioning function, is configured to be provided with: an air conditioning fan; fan side piping which is connected with the fan; and seat cushion or seatback side piping which is connected with an air flow passage formed in the seat cushion or the seatback, wherein the fan side piping and the seat cushion or seatback side piping are coupled together slidably in a state where an end of one is partially inserted into an end of the other, and at least one piping of either the fan side pining or the seat cushion or seatback side piping is equipped with a bellows structure.

Seat heater

A seat heater mounted to a seat includes: a heating wire; a base material provided with the heating wire and having air permeability; an excessive temperature rise prevention element that prevents an excessive temperature rise of the heating wire; and an auxiliary heating wire that heats the excessive temperature rise prevention element, in which air permeability in an auxiliary heater area provided with the auxiliary heating wire is lower than air permeability in a heater area provided with the heating wire, so that heat dissipation in the auxiliary heater area is suppressed to enable a temperature of the excessive temperature rise prevention element to rise efficiently to follow the temperature rise of the heater area.

Seat air conditioner
11325441 · 2022-05-10 · ·

The seat air conditioner configured to supply conditioning air to a seat in a vehicle cabin includes a refrigeration cycle, an air blower, and a conditioning air supply unit. The refrigeration cycle includes a compressor that compresses and discharges a refrigerant, a heat emitting portion that emits heat of the refrigerant discharged from the compressor to generate a warm air, a decompressor that decompresses the refrigerant flowing out of the heat emitting portion, and a heat absorbing portion that evaporates the refrigerant decompressed by the decompressor to generate a cold air. The air blower blows air to exchange heat with the refrigerant. The conditioning air supply unit supplies each of the warm air generated by the heat emitting portion and the cold air generated by the heat absorbing portion as the conditioning air to the seat.