Title:
SEAT FOR VEHICLE
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2006/040885
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
[PROBLEMS] In a seat for a welfare vehicle, in which a seat device that can be used as a wheelchair can double as a vehicle interior seat, the seat is conventionally constructed such that a footrest is raised or stowed by manual operation in order to prevent interference between the seat device and a step section of a door opening when the seat device is moved into a vehicle interior, and this manual operation has been bother. The seat of the invention solves this problem and the seat is constructed such that, as the seat device is moved into the vehicle interior, a footrest is automatically raised without operation to enable the seat device to pass the step section. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] A footrest (210) is vertically movably provided using a four-joint parallel link (211), and a slope (251) is placed from the vehicle interior side so as to straddle a step section. The slope (210) is moved and raised along the slope (251) by movement of a seat device (S).
Inventors:
Hibi, Kazuhiro c/o TOYOTA SHATAI KABUSHIKI KAISHA 100 (Kanayama Ichiriyama-cho Kariya-shi Aichi, 02, 44800, JP)
Aoyama, Hiroshi c/o TOYOTA SHATAI KABUSHIKI KAISHA 100 (Kanayama Ichiriyama-cho Kariya-shi Aichi, 02, 44800, JP)
Aoyama, Hiroshi c/o TOYOTA SHATAI KABUSHIKI KAISHA 100 (Kanayama Ichiriyama-cho Kariya-shi Aichi, 02, 44800, JP)
Application Number:
PCT/JP2005/016141
Publication Date:
April 20, 2006
Filing Date:
September 02, 2005
Export Citation:
Assignee:
TOYOTA SHATAI KABUSHIKI KAISHA (100 Kanayama Ichiriyama-cho Kariya-shi Aichi, 02, 02, 44800, JP)
Hibi, Kazuhiro c/o TOYOTA SHATAI KABUSHIKI KAISHA 100 (Kanayama Ichiriyama-cho Kariya-shi Aichi, 02, 44800, JP)
Aoyama, Hiroshi c/o TOYOTA SHATAI KABUSHIKI KAISHA 100 (Kanayama Ichiriyama-cho Kariya-shi Aichi, 02, 44800, JP)
Hibi, Kazuhiro c/o TOYOTA SHATAI KABUSHIKI KAISHA 100 (Kanayama Ichiriyama-cho Kariya-shi Aichi, 02, 44800, JP)
Aoyama, Hiroshi c/o TOYOTA SHATAI KABUSHIKI KAISHA 100 (Kanayama Ichiriyama-cho Kariya-shi Aichi, 02, 44800, JP)
International Classes:
A61G3/00; B60N2/16; B60P3/00; (IPC1-7): A61G3/00; B60P3/00; B60N2/16
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Okada, Hidehiko (Nagoya Chamber of Commerce & Industry Building 10-19, Sakae 2-chome Naka-k, Nagoya-shi Aichi 08, 46000, JP)
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