Patents Assigned to TS Tech Co., Ltd.
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Patent number: 11807183Abstract: An occupant protection apparatus includes: a vehicle seat arranged in an inner space of a side wall of a vehicle; a side airbag device provided in the side wall or the vehicle seat and including a side airbag to be inflated and deployed between the side wall and the vehicle seat. The vehicle seat includes: a pressure-receiving portion to receive a load from an occupant seated on the vehicle seat; and a frame to support the pressure-receiving portion. The occupant protection apparatus further comprising an electronic control circuit configured to perform moving the pressure-receiving portion so that the occupant is pushed away from the side wall before the occupant comes into contact with the side airbag at an activation time when the side airbag device is activated by an impact acting on the side wall from an outside of the vehicle and the side airbag is inflated and deployed.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2019Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Jinichi Tanabe, Tatsuki Nonaka, Shoji Endo, Takayoshi Ito, Takahiro Shimizu
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Patent number: 11807135Abstract: To improve the seated feeling of an occupant in a seat having partially different hardness, a vehicle seat includes a seat frame, an S spring which is installed on the seat frame and receives a load of an occupant, and a seat back pad which has a plurality of regions respectively formed of different materials and is disposed between a skin material of the seat and the S spring. The S spring is disposed at a position facing a boundary portion which is provided in the seat back pad and is the plurality of regions respectively formed of different materials.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazunori Hojo
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Patent number: 11801802Abstract: Provided is a rear side airbag device that can be mounted with ease. A rear side airbag device is located between a vehicle body and a rear seat, and includes an airbag, an inflator configured to supply gas into the airbag, and a mounting bracket to which the inflator is fixed. The mounting bracket includes an inflator mount portion to which the inflator is fixed, and a first anchor portion and a second anchor portion that are to be fixed to other members, whereas the first anchor portion and the second anchor portion are located on a laterally inner side with respect to the inflator mount portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2019Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.Inventor: Atsushi Yamabe
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Patent number: 11794654Abstract: An electronic mirror system includes, a camera which can be attached to a side of an automobile and which is able to image a moving image diagonally behind the automobile; and a monitor apparatus which can be attached in the passenger compartment of the automobile and which can display the moving image imaged by the camera. The monitor apparatus includes a movable portion which can move the display which displays the moving image with relation to a wall to where the monitor apparatus is attached in the passenger compartment.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Hidetoshi Ozawa, Takayoshi Ito
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Patent number: 11794618Abstract: Regarding a skin in which pores are formed for passage of a current of air generated by an air blower, the present invention properly ensures strength around the pores. A vehicle seat includes a skin forming a part of a seat body facing an occupant and an air blower attached to the seat body. The skin is provided with a top layer provided on a side of the skin facing the occupant in a thickness direction and a fabric layer provided at a position on a side opposite to the top layer. A plurality of pores allowing passage of a current of air generated by the air blower are formed in both the top layer and the fabric layer. A part of the fabric layer positioned at an edge of the pore is made of a fabric constituted by urethane resin-impregnated fibers being knitted.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Takako Miyoshi, Junichi Takahashi
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Patent number: 11794619Abstract: To reduce the weight of a cross member bridged between right and left sides of a seat frame. A seat frame includes an upper frame forming an upper portion of a seat back frame, and a cross member bridged at the upper frame. The cross member includes right and left end portions in a seat width direction, the right and left end portions being fixed to the upper frame; and a first recessed portion that is recessed upward or downward and provided between the right and left end portions. The first recessed portion is provided at a center portion of the cross member in the seat width direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Baba, Yuki Hosokawa, Takaya Kurisu
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Patent number: 11794614Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a seat cushion provided with a seat cushion frame, a front link configured to adjust a height of the seat cushion with respect to a base that is a slide rail or a vehicle body floor, and a front load detection sensor attached to an upper rail and configured to detect a load applied to the vehicle seat. The seat cushion frame includes a pair of side frames separated from each other in a seat width direction, the front link includes a first rotation shaft configured to be rotatable with respect to the seat cushion frame and a second rotation shaft configured to be rotatable with respect to the base, and the front load detection sensor is arranged at a position different from the second rotation shaft in a front to back direction of the seat.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuto Aoki, Tadanori Masuda, Kei Okuma, Hidetsune Nonaka
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Patent number: 11794616Abstract: Provided is a conveyance seat that effectively reduces a load to be applied to an occupant at the time of a vehicle collision. A conveyance seat includes a seat back and a headrest. The seat back includes a chest support member inside the seat back, which receives a chest of an occupant to support the chest of the occupant when a backward movement load is applied to the occupant because of a vehicle collision. The headrest includes a head support member inside the headrest, which receives a head of the occupant to support the head of the occupant when the backward movement load is applied to the occupant. When the backward movement load is applied to the occupant, both the chest support member and the head support member receive the backward movement load.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.Inventor: Jinichi Tanabe
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Patent number: 11787359Abstract: In a vehicle seat having an airbag module placed in the seatback thereof, the load that may be applied to the back side of the seatback is prevented from being applied to the airbag module. The vehicle seat (1, 300, 400) comprise a seatback frame (19) including a pair of side members (26, 301) extending vertically along either side thereof and providing a structural framework of a seatback, a plate member (20, 402) positioned behind the seatback frame and including an extension (32, 410) extending in an outboard direction from the side member located on an outboard side of the seatback frame, a mounting member connected to the outboard side member, and an airbag module (23) positioned on a front side of the extension and connected to the outboard side member via the mounting member, a clearance (S) being defined between the airbag module and the extension.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Jinichi Tanabe, Katsuya Isomura, Sosaku Omori, Keita Wakesu, Kenji Matsuoka, Yuta Sugaya
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Patent number: 11787317Abstract: It is an object to provide a seat of which a seating comfort can be improved. The seat includes a seat cushion pad having an air passage formed inside and an air vent formed at an upper surface thereof, and is configured to allow air in the air passage to blow out through the air vent, wherein the seat cushion pad includes a pad body and a cover member which is disposed over the pad body to form the air passage between the pad body and the cover member and in which the air vent is formed, and a front end portion of the cover member extends downward over a front end portion of the pad body.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryuzaburo Abe, Sachio Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20230322129Abstract: Provided is an ECU device for estimating a length of the lower limbs of a seated person seated on a vehicle seat, the ECU device comprising: a thigh angle information acquisition means for acquiring information pertaining to a thigh angle (?) of the seated person; a back-of-knee angle information acquisition means for acquiring information pertaining to a back-of-knee angle (?) of the seated person; and an estimation means for estimating a length (z) of the lower limbs of the seated person on the basis of the information pertaining to the thigh angle (?) acquired by the thigh angle information acquisition means and the information pertaining to the back-of-knee angle (?) acquired by the back-of-knee angle information acquisition means. Through this configuration, the length of the lower limbs of a seated person seated on a vehicle seat can be accurately estimated.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: TS TECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Kensuke MIZOI, Naoto YAMAUCHI
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Patent number: 11780353Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a first heater which heats a first region, a second heater which heats a second region different from the first region, and a controller connected to the first heater and the second heater. The controller is capable of executing PWM control under which current applied to the first heater and the second heater is regulated by setting current-application timeframes within a unit time period, wherein a first current-application timeframe that is a period within the unit time period in which current is applied to the first heater and a second current-application timeframe that is a period within the unit time period in which current is applied to the second heater, as set under the PWM control, are shifted relative to each other when current is applied to the first heater and the second heater.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Kohei Sato, Takayoshi Ito
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Patent number: 11780352Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide a vehicle seat which can improve degree of freedom in the design of the vehicle seat.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.Inventor: Shinji Sugiyama
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Patent number: 11772516Abstract: A seat support of the conveyance seat includes right and left front foot members that are attached to a body floor with a gap therebetween in a seat width direction and extend to protrude upward from the body floor and a foot linking member that links the upper portions of the right and left front foot members and is disposed to partially overlap the right and left front foot members in the up and down direction. A closed section structure is formed by an opposing wall portion disposed at a position opposing the foot linking member in an up and down direction, right and left side wall portions continuously bent from both end portions of the opposing wall portion in a seat width direction and protruding to abut toward the foot linking member in the front foot member, and the foot linking member.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2020Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Hidetsune Nonaka, Daisuke Kikuchi
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Patent number: 11766959Abstract: A skeletal structure is provided that includes a panel, and a frame joined to a front surface side of the panel. The frame includes a plurality of first frames oriented in a fixed direction and a second frame oriented in a direction orthogonal to the plurality of first frames, and each of the plurality of first frames and the second frame are formed to have an open cross-sectional shape. An end portion of each first frame of the plurality of first frames is joined to the second frame in an overlapping state.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Kei Okuma, Kazunari Nishide, Hidetaka Yonehara, Yu Sugiyama, Yusuke Takahashi
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Patent number: 11760247Abstract: A dynamic damper is provided which includes a weight, an elastic member that supports the weight so as to allow vibration, and a damper case that houses the weight and the elastic member, wherein the dynamic damper also includes corner part checking means for checking at least some corner parts among corner parts where at least one end face of the weight and first and second side faces that are each continuous from the one end face and are adjacent to each other meet. This enables the ease of assembly to be enhanced by enabling a corner part of a weight to be checked when assembling the weight into a damper case, and also enables the state in which the elastic member is mounted on an end part of the weight to be easily checked.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2020Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiro Mishiba, Tadashi So, Taro Murayama
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Patent number: 11752906Abstract: A seat backrest includes right and left side frame segments, a pressure receiving member disposed between the side frame segments movably in a front-back direction, and a cushion pad covering the front of the side frame segments and pressure receiving member. The pressure receiving member includes a main body part, and extending parts extending laterally from both sides of the main body part. The cushion pad includes a back receiving part covering the front of the main body part, and bank parts disposed on both sides of the back receiving part, protruding forward from both sides, and covering the front of the extending parts and side frame segments. A recess is formed at an area, facing a corresponding extending part of the extending parts, of a rear surface of each bank part.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.Inventor: Shuichi Shimizu
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Patent number: 11745679Abstract: A vehicle seat comprises: a pair of opposed frames disposed opposite to and separately from each other; a pair of connecting frames disposed separately from each other in a perpendicular direction perpendicular to an opposing direction of the pair of opposed frames, the connecting frames being configured to connect the pair of opposed frames; a bridging wire disposed to bridge the pair of connecting frames; a reinforcing wire disposed to cross the bridging wire as viewed from an occupant side; and a plate-shaped plastic member configured to cover the bridging wire and the reinforcing wire at least at their crossover such that the bridging wire and the reinforcing wire are arranged to be spaced apart from and thus kept out of contact with each other, the bridging wire and the reinforcing wire being connected with the plate-shaped plastic member.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.Inventor: Koji Onuma
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Patent number: 11738671Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2022Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuichiro Hoshi, Kazuki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11730281Abstract: Provided is a vehicle seat that allows engagement holes for engaging an end part of the skin member to be provided without burdening the seat frame design. The seat cushion of the vehicle seat includes a frame structure, a support member supported by the frame structure within the frame structure to resiliently support an occupant, a pad provided on a proximal side of the frame structure and the support member, and a skin member covering the pad. The support member is provided with plurality of engagement portions engaging end parts of the skin member.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Koji Onuma, Soichiro Kamei