Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Seat apparatus
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Application No.: US15354272Application Date: 2016-11-17
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Publication No.: US10245990B2Publication Date: 2019-04-02
- Inventor: Tomohisa Chiba
- Applicant: TS TECH CO., LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Saitama
- Assignee: TS Tech Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: TS Tech Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Saitama
- Agency: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
- Priority: JP2015-226976 20151119; JP2016-203700 20161017
- Main IPC: B60N2/90
- IPC: B60N2/90 ; B62J1/12 ; B62J1/26 ; B62J99/00

Abstract:
A seat apparatus includes a vehicle seat including a cushion member having a bottom portion with a plurality of recessed portions, a plurality of air cells configured to expand by injection of compressed air, and a fluid supply mechanism configured to supply the fluid to the air cells. In the seat apparatus, at least one of the recessed portions is provided at a portion of the bottom portion of the cushion member positioned at a seating portion of the vehicle seat, the hip of a passenger being placed on the seating portion. Each air cell is expandable in a corresponding one of the recessed portions. The fluid supply mechanism is configured to expand at least one air cell by supplying the compressed air thereto and to change the at least one air cell to be expanded by switching a fluid supply destination.
Public/Granted literature
- US10279719B2 Seat apparatus Public/Granted day:2019-05-07
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