Patents Assigned to Tachi-s Co., Ltd
  • Vehicle seat with integral bracket
    Patent number: 10730466
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle seat (100) comprising: a seat cushion (101); a seat back (102) capable of being folded toward the seat cushion (101); a slide rail (110) movable in the front-back direction with the seat cushion (101) mounted thereon; a stationary rail (120) for guiding the slide rail (110); and a drive motor (160) for driving the slide rail (110) in the front-back direction along the stationary rail (120). The vehicle seat (100) is configured such that an integral sensor bracket (130) on which a magnetism sensor (141) and a limit switch (151) are mounted is affixed to the slide rail (120), and a magnetic body (142) which is detected by the magnetism sensor (141) and a detection plate (153) which activates the limit switch (151) are mounted to the stationary rail (120).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: TACHI-S Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Watanabe, Takayuki Ohmori
  • Seat back board, trim cover and vehicle seat
    Patent number: 10730417
    Abstract: A seat back board includes: a flexible plate member which is made of a resin material and has the Shore hardness higher than 50, the plate member including: a back-surface covering part which covers a back surface of a seat back; and a bottom-surface covering part which covers a bottom surface of a seat cushion; a sewing part, which is sewn with a cover member covering a front surface and side surfaces of the seat back or is sewn with a coupling member to be coupled with the cover member in a detachable manner, being provided in an edge portion of the back-surface covering part; and a locking part, to be locked in the seat cushion, being provided in the bottom-surface covering part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignees: TACHI-S CO., LTD., KASAI KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Inoue, Akinori Taniguchi, Takayuki Ohmori, Keita Myochin, Saori Aoyama
  • SLIDING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20200238860
    Abstract: A sliding device includes a fixed rail, a movable rail, a lock plate, and a spring member. A seat body is fixed to the movable rail, and the movable rail is slidable relative to the fixed rail. The lock plate is held by the movable rail, and is displaceable between a locking position where the lock plate engages with the fixed rail and restricts slide of the movable rail and a non-locking position where the restriction is released. The spring member exerts an elastic force to maintain the lock plate in the locking position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicants: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TACHI-S CO., LTD., TF-METAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kosuke TANIGUCHI
  • SLIDING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20200238861
    Abstract: A sliding device includes a fixed rail, a movable rail, a lock plate, a spring member, and a fixing structure. The lock plate is displaced between a locking position where the lock plate engages with the fixed rail and restricts slide of the movable rail and a non-locking position where the restriction of slide is released. The spring member exerts an elastic force to maintain the lock plate in the locking position. The fixing structure includes a tapered portion of the spring member and a press spring portion that presses the tapered portion toward a hole of the movable rail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicants: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TACHI-S CO., LTD., TF-METAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kosuke TANIGUCHI
  • SLIDING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20200238859
    Abstract: A sliding device includes a fixed rail, a movable rail, a lock plate, a spring member, and a first stopper and a second stopper provided on the lock plate. The lock plate is held by the movable rail, and is displaceable between a locking position where the lock plate engages with the fixed rail and a non-locking position where the engagement is released. The spring member can exert an elastic force to maintain the lock plate in the locking position. The first stopper locks and fixes a first end of the lock plate to the spring member. The second stopper locks and fixes a second end of the lock plate to the spring member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicants: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TACHI-S CO., LTD., TF-METAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kosuke TANIGUCHI
  • Seat for vehicles
    Patent number: 10710482
    Abstract: A seat for vehicles including a seat cushion, a seat back, and a head rest has the following arrangement to ensure that a surface member can be relatively easily but positively removed from a urethane pad if a foam molding defect is found in the urethane pad in integral molding of the urethane pad and the surface member. In the seat for vehicles, any one of the seat cushion, seat back, and head rest has a configuration where a surface of the urethane pad is covered with the surface member. The urethane pad and the surface member are partially bonded together by integral molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: TACHI-S CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takumi Hirano, Shinichi Mizuno, Tsuyoshi Tabata, Hiromi Yamamoto
  • Seat cover and vehicle seat
    Patent number: 10703238
    Abstract: Provided is a seat cover (5) of a vehicle seat (1) which is formed by sewing a plurality of skin materials includes: a locked part (23) which is provided in a sewn portion (12) of two sheets of sewn skin materials (10 and 11) and is locked in a locking part (22) of a cushion pad in a state where the sewn portion is pulled into a cushion pad (20). Among seam allowances of the skin materials included in the sewn portion, a seam allowance (14) of one skin material includes a protrusion part (15) which is arranged to protrude in a pulling-in direction of the sewn portion from a seam allowance (13) of the other skin material. The locked part is directly provided in the protrusion part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: TACHI-S CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiko Suzuki, Katsunori Nagaoka
  • Vehicle seat
    Patent number: 10703232
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle seat (1) capable of facilitating the mounting of a cover (30). The cover (30) of a seat cushion (2) is configured such that a upper portion cover (31) is disposed on the upper surface side of the seat cushion (2), a front portion cover (33) extends from the front edge of the upper portion cover (31) to the rear surface side of the seat cushion (2), and a rear portion cover (34) extends from the rear edge of the upper portion cover (31) to the rear surface side of the seat cushion (2). A first link portion (44) which detachably couples the rear edge of the front portion cover (33) and the front edge of the rear portion cover (34) to each other contacts a lower portion pad (22) of a cushion pad (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: TACHI-S CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Matsui, Takashi Yokoyama
  • Vehicle seat with detachable life lever
    Patent number: 10703245
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle seat that enables a lift lever to be detached without detaching a reclining lever from the vehicle seat. The vehicle seat is configured such that, when a reclining lever is turned downward, the reclining lever and a fastening member of a lift lever as viewed from the side of a seat part overlap each other, and when the reclining lever is turned upward, the reclining lever and the fastening member of the lift lever as viewed from the side of the seat part do not overlap each other, and the lift lever can be detached from the seat part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignees: Tachi-S Co., Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Motoshi Minegishi, Hirofumi Fuwa
  • VEHICLE SEAT
    Publication number: 20200198508
    Abstract: A vehicle seat includes: a chamber in which at least a seat-front-surface side is covered with a pad and which circulates the air blown from a front surface of a seat through the pad; a fan configured to send air into the chamber; and a support body which supports the chamber so as to be able to sink in an acting direction of a load applied to the surface of the seat. The chamber includes a first region and a second region, and the first region and the second region are configured to allow subduction of the chamber independently of each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicant: TACHI-S CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi ARATA, Takumi YAMAKAWA
  • Method and device for manufacture of seat for vehicle
    Patent number: 10687625
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacture of a seat for a vehicle, comprising a step of setting a return spring in a clamp jig, a step of clamping and fixing the return spring in the clamp jig, a step of inserting the return spring which is clamped in the clamp jig in an attachment unit, and a step of removing the return spring from the clamp jig.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: TACHI-S CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masami Namiki, Ryuji Yonekura, Tetsuya Murakami
  • Vehicle seat and seat operations section
    Patent number: 10688886
    Abstract: The vehicle seat includes a seat cushion and a seat back. The seat back includes one shaft member, a mount frame having a first bearing and a second bearing, and a first operation section and a second operation section which are arranged side by side. The shaft member is attached to the first and the second bearings, having no fixing section for the mount frame between the first and the second bearings, and serving as a center around which the first and the second operation sections are rotated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: TACHI-S CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Norito Akimoto, Masaaki Honda
  • SEAT SLIDING DEVICE FOR VEHICLES
    Publication number: 20200189424
    Abstract: A seat sliding device for vehicles includes lower and upper rails and a locking member for locking or unlocking the upper rail relative to the lower rail. The upper rail is equipped at a lower end of its downward side wall portion with a lower inward corner portion formed of a raised wall portion and a bottom wall portion. The locking member has an axial portion that is placed on and biased against the lower inward corner portion of the upper rail such that the locking member is swingable about an axis of the axial portion to lock or unlock the upper rail relative to the lower rail. This seat sliding device makes it possible to reduce the number of parts and improve operation stability of the locking member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicants: TF-METAL Co., Ltd., TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TACHI-S CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shunsuke KURODA, Kazuki TAMAKI
  • VEHICLE SEAT
    Publication number: 20200180477
    Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a seat cushion including: a pad; and a support portion which supports the pad. The support portion deforms in accordance with a load applied to the pad, and allows sinking of the pad due to the deformation, and a deformation amount per unit load of the support portion, in a high load range equal to or greater than a predetermined load, is smaller than a deformation amount per unit load of the support portion, in a low load range less than a predetermined load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: TACHI-S CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi ARATA
  • Seat
    Patent number: 10654384
    Abstract: The present invention provides a seat which is unlikely to cause wrinkles or slack in a surface cover thereof, makes surface cover attachment and detachment simple, and is also capable of withstanding long-term use. To this end, a second fastening part 50 for attachably/detachably connecting a cushion material 2 and a surface cover 4 to one another is formed as a zipper in a seat 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignees: TACHI-S CO., LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiko Nagasawa, Tsutomu Fujikake, Ryo Kurobe, Taku Nagasawa, Tomoyuki Uemura, Kazuyuki Kaneko
  • Structure of wadded-up seat trim cover and method of manufacturing wadded-up seat trim cover
    Patent number: 10654383
    Abstract: A structure of wadded-up seat trim cover, having a plurality of trim cover pieces sewn together at one end, each composed of a wadding member and a skin member, includes a bonded portion formed by bonding the skin member to the wadding member made shorter than the skin member, at a position remote, by a prescribed distance, from the end of the wadding member overlapping the skin member; a first sewn portion formed by bending that portion of the skin member, not overlapping the wadding member, along the end of the wadding member and then by sewing the portions of the adjacent skin members together; and second sewn portions formed by bending each end of the adjacent skin member to the back of the trim cover piece at the first sewn portion and then by sewing the adjacent skin members together at overlapping portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: TACHI-S CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Ishii, Shinichi Mizuno
  • Structure of wadded-up seat trim cover and method of manufacturing wadded-up seat trim cover
    Patent number: 10654382
    Abstract: A structure of wadded-up seat trim cover, having a plurality of trim cover pieces sewn together at one end, each composed of a wadding member and a skin member, includes a bonded portion formed by bonding the skin member to the wadding member made shorter than the skin member, at a position remote, by a prescribed distance, from the end of the wadding member overlapping the skin member; a first sewn portion formed by bending that portion of the skin member, not overlapping the wadding member, along the end of the wadding member and then by sewing the portions of the adjacent skin members together; and second sewn portions formed by bending each end of the adjacent skin member to the back of the trim cover piece at the first sewn portion and then by sewing the adjacent skin members together at overlapping portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: TACHI-S CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Ishii, Shinichi Mizuno
  • Seat for vehicles
    Patent number: 10640013
    Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a seat for vehicles in which walk-in operation can be cancelled by simple operation. A seat for vehicles includes: a mechanism to shift a seat cushion (2) from a seating position to an escape position by operation of an operation part (9); and a walk-in cancel mechanism (400) for cancelling walk-in operation which restrains a seat back (3) from rotating to a fully tilted-down position of the seat back (3) when the seat cushion (2) is shifted from the seating position to the escape position and the seat back (3) is rotated to a middle tilted position, and also switches a slide rail device in a locked state to an unlocked state, in which the walk-in cancel mechanism (400) is automatically operated in conjunction with operation of the operation part (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: TACHI-S CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya Imayou, Toshiki Igarashi, Yayoi Hirano, Shunsuke Yamaoka
  • Vehicle seat
    Patent number: 10640025
    Abstract: A vehicle seat is provided that can reduce a runout that occurs in a seat back frame. A seat back frame includes an upper frame part (301), a lower frame part (302), a first side frame part (303), and a second side frame part (301), which are formed as separate components and are joined to each other. The lower frame part (302) is provided in such a manner that a rotational axis (3A) is located on the inner side of the lower frame part (302). The seat back is rotated with respect to the seat cushion about the rotational axis (3A). One end portion in the width direction of the lower panel (305) is joined to the first side frame part (303). The other end portion in the width direction is joined to a second side frame part (304). A lower edge (305B) is joined to the lower frame part (302).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: TACHI-S CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yukihiro Suzuki
  • Vehicle seat
    Patent number: D887154
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: TACHI-S CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kotaro Kumagi, Takashi Yokoyama, Masayuki Taguchi