Patents Assigned to Tachi-s Co., Ltd
  • Patent number: 10300817
    Abstract: At least a part of a seat cover (4) covering a vehicle seat (1) is formed of a seat-cover skin material (5) including a surface material (10), a cushion material (11), and a backing material (12) which are laminated in this order and are integrally joined together, and a stitch portion (20) at which the surface material (10) and the backing material (12) are sewn together, wherein an elongation percentage of the surface material (10) is greater than an elongation percentage of the backing material (12) when the same load is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: TACHI-S CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Aida, Hiroshi Sekino
  • Publication number: 20190152353
    Abstract: A vehicle seat 1 includes a seat cushion 2 for supporting the buttocks of an occupant, a backrest 3 having a seat back 5 and supporting the back of the occupant, and a reclining mechanism 8 having a bracket 82 that rotates about a rotation axis C and enabling the backrest 3 to rotate relative to the seat cushion 2. The bracket 82 is fastened onto a side surface plate 51 of the seat back 5 by a first bolt 61, a second bolt 62, and a third bolt 63 that pass through the bracket 82 and the side surface plate 51. An insertion position for the third bolt 63 is offset from a straight line L passing through an insertion position for the first bolt 61 and an insertion position for the second bolt 62.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: TACHI-S CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Daisuke Fujita
  • Patent number: 10293723
    Abstract: A surface structure of wadded seat, with a trim cover having a plurality of trim cover pieces backed with wadding members and sewed together at ends, further includes: first sewed portions, each formed by sewing two adjacent trim cover pieces at one end of each trim cover piece, while serving as seam allowance, the portions not backed with the wadding members; second sewed portions, each formed first by forming a continuous trim cover piece, then by laying a long wadding member on the backs of the wadding members, and finally by sewing, at both ends of the continuous trim cover piece, the wadding members on the backs of the trim cover pieces and the long wadding member; and third sewed portions, each formed by sewing, at both ends of each first sewed portion, the long wadding member to the end of each trim cover piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: TACHI-S CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Shindo
  • Publication number: 20190143862
    Abstract: A hooking structure includes a fastening member that is configured from an open-type slide fastener and is not stitched to a base trim cover, and a plastic fixing member for fixing one fastener half part to a seat member in a groove part formed in a seat member and used for hooking. The fastening member is provided with a locked part, the fixing member is provided with a flexible locking part that locks with the locked part, and the other fastener half part and a dressing cover are anchored together by an anchoring part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Applicants: Tachi-S Co., Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Fujikake, Tomoyo Futakawame, Tomoyuki Uemura, Taku Nagasawa, Shinobu Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20190143861
    Abstract: A seat hooking structure (10) which supports by hooking a changeable cover (7) so as to be detachably attached to a seat member provided with a base trim cover (6), the seat hooking structure (10) comprising: an open-type fastening member (5) which is not sewn to the base trim cover (6), the fastening member (5) including a fastener part constituted by one fastener half (511) and another fastener half (512), and a slider part that slides along the fastener part so as to open and close the one fastener half (511) and the other fastener half (512); and an anchoring member (18) which anchors the one fastener half (511) to the seat member in a groove for hooking (11). The other fastener half (512) and the changeable cover (7) are secured to each other by a securing part (74).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Applicants: Tachi-S Co., Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Fujikake, Tomoyo Futakawame, Tomoyuki Uemura, Taku Nagasawa, Shinobu Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10286820
    Abstract: An integral skin foam molded article includes: a skin formed by sewing a plurality of skin pieces in a bag shape; and a resin foam which is molded inside the skin integrally with the skin, wherein: at least one skin piece among the plurality of skin pieces has a surface material made of a natural leather, and includes a wadding material stacked on a back side of the surface material in a non-surface joined state and a lining material stacked on the wadding material; and in a shrinkage rate with respect to an in-plane compression load, a shrinkage rate of the lining material is smaller than a shrinkage rate of the wadding material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: TACHI-S CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Shindo, Hiroki Yoshihara
  • Patent number: 10272808
    Abstract: An upper-front of a seatback is cut, providing a hole at a position the occupant's shoulder may lie, and an engaging means able to engage with a shoulder webbing is fitted in the hole. The engaging means holds the shoulder webbing, which is wrapped around the occupant. The engaging means is, for example, a (second) buckle fitted in the hole. A second tongue (intermediate tongue) is mounted on a middle part of the shoulder webbing. The shoulder webbing is wrapped slantwise around the occupant's shoulder when the second tongue is engaged with the second buckle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: TACHI-S CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Koike, Tomohiro Amano
  • Patent number: 10272811
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a headrest capable of, when a user touches the headrest, preventing the user's finger from being inserted into the inner space of the headrest. The vehicle seat headrest according to the present invention includes: a stay (402) held on the seat back side; and a headrest main body (4A) supported forward rotatably from a using position with respect to the stay (402). The headrest main body (4A) has: a main body frame (401) forming a strength member; hinge parts (403a), (403b) which connect the main body frame (401) rotatably with respect to the stay (402); a locking mechanism (500) which fixes the main body frame (401) in the using position with respect to the stay (402); and cushion material (407) which covers the main body frame (401) and the hinge parts (403a), (403b). In the vehicle seat headrest, a resin lower cover (408), having an opening (408a) through which the stay (402) is inserted, covers a lower surface of the headrest main body (4A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: TACHI-S CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya Imayou, Toshiki Igarashi, Yayoi Hirano, Shunsuke Yamaoka
  • Publication number: 20190118684
    Abstract: A vehicle seat includes: a cushion pad in which one or more hanging grooves into which a trim cover is inserted are formed in a sitting-person supporting surface; a wire which is provided in a bottom of the hanging groove along the hanging groove and locks the trim cover which is inserted into the hanging groove; a vibration transferring member which is buried in the cushion pad along the wire; and a vibration body which excites the vibration transferring member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Applicants: TACHI-S CO., LTD., CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuo NOGUCHI, Ryo KUROBE, Masao KOMADA, Naoki TAKADA
  • Patent number: 10266082
    Abstract: An air-permeable seat having a seat cushion and a seatback, each formed by mounting an urethane pad on a frame and then covering the urethane pad with an air-permeable trim cover, the air-permeable seat includes a fiber pad provided in at least one of the seat cushion and the seatback and penetrating a part of the urethane pad; a chamber defined at the back of the fiber pad, covering the fiber pad and shaped to rectify an airflow coming from the fiber pad; and air intake parts flow the air in the fiber pad and introduce the air from the fiber pad into the chamber; wherein as the air intake parts is driven, air is drawn from the surface of the fiber pad through the trim cover, flows from the fiber pad to the chamber, may be rectified in the chamber and flow out through the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: TACHI-S CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuo Noguchi, Jun Takano
  • Patent number: 10259355
    Abstract: The vehicle seat (100) comprises a cover part (29) including a cover member (24) having a folded portion (24b) in the X direction at a position where it is overlapped with a hole part (21a) formed in a seat back (2), and a cover member (25) having a folded portion (25b) folded in the X direction at a position where it is overlapped with the hole part (21a). The cover part (29) includes two sewn parts (26, 27) for fixing the overlapped portion of the cover members (24, 25) in two locations in the Y direction, while no sewn part exists in such section of the overlapped portion as intervenes between the sewn parts (26, 27).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignees: TACHI-S CO., LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Shindo, Kengo Kataoka, Makoto Nomura, Kanae Morita
  • Patent number: 10252647
    Abstract: In a rear seat having a configuration which, in the state that a seat cushion is folded forward with a seat back flattened on the seat cushion side, makes an upward back surface of the seat back become almost the same height with a floor surface of a cargo room, to avoid giving a restriction and hurt in amenity to a passenger seated on the seat cushion in the space on which feet of are put, the present invention provides a vehicle seat to which parallel link mechanism portions are equipped that connect the seat cushion to a floor surface under the seat cushion of the vehicle, and a mechanism is provided to fold the seat cushion forward with the posture of the seat back held by the parallel link mechanisms in the state that the seat back is flattened to the seat cushion side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: TACHI-S CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Norihisa Narita, Hiromi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10251491
    Abstract: In order to provide a seat having enhanced apparent quality by covering a connecting part, the present invention is a seat 1 wherein a coating cover 40 for coating a first fastening part 30 is provided to an end of a surface cover 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignees: TACHI-S CO., LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Nishino, Tsutomu Fujikake, Taku Nagasawa, Tomoyuki Uemura, Kazuyuki Kaneko
  • Patent number: 10245989
    Abstract: A headrest includes a headrest body which is tiltably supported by a stay held on a seat back, a lock part which locks the headrest body in a non-tiltable manner, and a lock release part which releases lock of the lock part. The lock release part includes an operation button to be pressed, a biasing member which biases the operation button in an opposite direction to a pressing direction of the operation button, and a bezel which has a cylinder wall and a bottom wall for containing the operation button to be movable back and forth in the pressing direction, and is provided with a locking part which locks the operation button biased by the biasing member to hold the operation button in the cylinder wall. The locking part is provided in the bottom wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: TACHI-S CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yutaka Sodeno
  • Publication number: 20190092200
    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: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicants: Tachi-S Co., Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Motoshi Minegishi, Hirofumi Fuwa
  • Publication number: 20190092201
    Abstract: A vehicle seat includes: a seat back; and a seat cushion including: a first side frame; a second side frame; a front frame connecting front end portions of the first side frame and the second side frame to each other; and a rear frame connecting rear end portions of the first side frame and the second side frame to each other. The first side frame includes: a frame member including a closed sectional shape part between the front frame and the rear frame; a first reinforcing member being provided between the front frame and the rear frame to pass through an inner side wall and an outer side wall, and being joined with the inner side wall and the outer side wall; and a connection member connecting an end portion of the first reinforcing member with at least one frame of the front frame and the rear frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicants: TACHI-S CO., LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yousuke HASEGAWA, Sigeyuki OKAMOTO, Hiroyuki YAJIMA, Shogo WAKANA, Osamu KYOGOKU, Sugiaki YAMAZATO, Toru INAGAKI
  • Publication number: 20190092202
    Abstract: A vehicle seat includes: a seat back, connected with a seat cushion through a recliner, an outlet of a shoulder belt being provided in one shoulder of the seat back, wherein: the seat back includes: a first side frame, arranged on the one shoulder side; and a second side frame, arranged on the other shoulder side; the first side frame includes: a first frame member having a hollow and closed sectional shape; and a plate-shaped bracket which is attached in the recliner; and the bracket includes a joint part which is inserted into a lower end portion of the first frame member and is joined with the lower end portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicants: TACHI-S CO., LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yousuke HASEGAWA, Sigeyuki Okamoto, Hiroyuki YAJIMA, Shogo WAKANA, Osamu KYOGOKU, Sugiaki YAMAZATO, Toru INAGAKI
  • Patent number: 10239428
    Abstract: The vehicle seat is configured to improve child seat mountability, and to prevent deterioration in appearance design when the child seat is demounted. The vehicle seat includes an anchor storage recess formed in a pad that constitutes the seat for storing an anchor to be engaged with an engagement member attached to a child seat. The anchor storage recess is covered with a skin material having a slit. The slit has an inverse T-like shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: TACHI-S CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keigo Yamauchi, Kouichi Moroi, Hitoshi Abe, Kengo Kataoka, Makoto Nomura
  • Patent number: 10232749
    Abstract: A seat hooking structure (10) which supports by hooking a changeable cover (7) so as to be detachably attached to a seat member provided with a base trim cover (6), the seat hooking structure (10) comprising: an open-type fastening member (5) which is not sewn to the base trim cover (6), the fastening member (5) including a fastener part constituted by one fastener half (511) and another fastener half (512), and a slider part that slides along the fastener part so as to open and close the one fastener half (511) and the other fastener half (512); and an anchoring member (18) which anchors the one fastener half (511) to the seat member in a groove for hooking (11). The other fastener half (512) and the changeable cover (7) are secured to each other by a securing part (74).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignees: Tachi-S Co., Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Fujikake, Tomoyo Futakawame, Tomoyuki Uemura, Taku Nagasawa, Shinobu Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10227025
    Abstract: Provided is a resin cover for covering a surface of a structure by being inserted and secured together with a metallic clip into a hole portion formed in the structure, the resin cover is formed with a clip squeezing portion for mounting the metallic clip, the clip squeezing portion is formed with a flexure control rib, and the flexure control rib is formed to restrict the defamation amount of a claw portion formed on the metallic clip to prevent the metallic clip from being pulled back from the hole portion formed in the structure when the metallic clip is urged to be pulled back from the hole portion formed in the structure in the state that the metallic clip mounted on the clip squeezing portion is inserted into the hole portion formed in the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: TACHI-S CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takamasa Tamai, Naoyuki Makita