Patent Application
20240025321
This application claims the benefit of Korean Patent Application No. 10-2022-0089626, filed on Jul. 20, 2022, which application is hereby incorporated herein by reference.
The present invention relates generally to a rear seat for a vehicle.
Vehicles are equipped with seats for passengers, and a seat of a vehicle includes a seat cushion supporting the lower body of a passenger, a seat back supporting the upper body, and a headrest supporting the head.
In general, in the case of a passenger vehicle, a rear seat includes triple seats, and each of the triple seats includes seat backs and seat cushions that are integrated so that three passengers can use the rear seat of the vehicle at the same time.
However, in triple rear seats, a passenger on a center seat has a problem in that there is only a small interval between the passenger and left and right passengers, so that it is difficult to sit in a comfortable state due to shoulder bumps between passengers.
The foregoing is intended merely to aid in the understanding of the background of embodiments of the present invention, and is not intended to mean that the present invention falls within the purview of the related art that is already known to those skilled in the art.
The present invention relates generally to a rear seat for a vehicle. Particular embodiments relate to a rear seat for a vehicle, wherein a center seat among triple rear seats is configured to protrude forward.
Embodiments of the present invention provide a rear seat for a vehicle including a structure in which a center seat among triple rear seats for a vehicle is movable forward, and embodiments of the present invention can induce a comfortable seating condition of rear passengers, such that the center seat moves and protrudes forward when necessary so as to increase an interval between the passengers and to prevent physical contact between the passengers on the center seat and side seats as much as possible.
According to one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a rear seat for a vehicle, the rear seat including a center seat and side seats located at left and right of the center seat, wherein the center seat may be movable forward and rearward with respect to the side seats, and when the center seat moves forward, the center seat may protrude forward from the side seats.
The center seat may include a center seat back frame and a center seat cushion frame that may be rotatably connected to each other by a first hinge as a medium, and each of the side seats may include a side seat back frame and a side seat cushion frame that may be rotatably connected to each other by a second hinge as a medium.
The center seat may include a center seat back frame and a center seat cushion frame that may be rotatably connected to each other by a first hinge or a second hinge as a medium.
A back wire may be coupled to a center seat back frame of the center seat to protrude rearward, a first vehicle body bracket in which a concave wire groove may be formed may be fixed to a vehicle body facing the back wire, and the center seat back frame may be configured to be rotatable on the back wire inserted in the wire groove.
Cushion pins may be coupled to opposite side portions of a side seat cushion frame of each of the side seats to protrude in opposite directions, second vehicle body brackets may be fixed to a vehicle body facing the cushion pins, and each of the second vehicle body brackets may have a concave pin inserting groove. The pin inserting groove may include a plurality of position locking grooves in which a position of each of the cushion pins inserted in the pin inserting groove may be locked, and the plurality of position locking grooves may be arranged to be longitudinally spaced apart from each other, and when each of the cushion pins moves forward and rearward so as to be inserted into each of the position locking grooves, the side seat cushion frame may move forward and rearward so that an angle of a side seat back frame may be changed.
When the side seat cushion frame moves forward and rearward, the center seat may move together.
The rear seat may include a first link and a second link, which may connect a center seat back frame of the center seat to a side seat back frame of each of the side seats, wherein the first link and the second link may be arranged in parallel to each other, and opposite ends of each of the first and second links may be respectively connected to the center seat back frame and the side seat back frame in a rotatable hinge structure.
A lower end of the second link may be rotatably coupled to the side seat back frame by a hinge as a medium, a locking tooth may be formed on an outer circumferential surface of the lower end of the second link, a locking lever engaged with the locking tooth and a locking cam engaged with the locking lever may be rotatably respectively coupled to the side seat back frame by a lever shaft and a cam shaft as mediums, and the cam shaft may be coupled to a cam bracket, so that the cam bracket, the cam shaft, and the locking cam may rotate integrally.
The rear seat may include a lever bracket fixed to a side seat cushion frame of each of the side seats and an operation lever rotatably coupled to the lever bracket, a lever spring of which opposite ends may be provided to be respectively supported by the lever bracket and the operation lever, and a cable connecting the cam bracket to the operation lever.
The operation lever may be located below a cushion part of the center seat. When the cushion part of the center seat descends, the operation lever is pressed by the cushion part, the cable may be relaxed, the locking tooth, the locking lever, and the locking cam of the second link may maintain locked states, and the center seat back frame may maintain a locked state in which rotation thereof may be impossible with respect to the side seat back frame.
The operation lever may be located below a cushion part of the center seat. When the cushion part of the center seat rotates upward, the operation lever may be released from pressing by the cushion part and may rotate by a spring force of the lever spring, and when the operation lever rotates, the cable may be pulled, the cam bracket, the locking cam, and the locking lever may rotate and thus the locking lever, the second link, and the locking tooth may be released from locking as the cable is pulled, and when the locking is released, the center seat may be longitudinally movable with respect to the side seats.
The center seat may include a center seat back frame and a center seat cushion frame that may be rotatably connected to each other by a first hinge as a medium, and a strap may be coupled to the center seat cushion frame so that a cushion part of the center seat may rotate upward by using the strap.
A center seat cushion frame of the center seat may include a wire clip, and a side seat cushion frame of each of the side seats may include a front wire and a rear wire that are longitudinally spaced apart from each other, the front wire and the rear wire being inserted into the wire clip.
When a cushion part of the center seat rotates upward, the front wire or the rear wire may come out of the wire clip and escape therefrom.
The front wire and the rear wire may be located below the wire clip, and when the front wire is inserted into the wire clip, the center seat may protrude by moving forward with respect to the side seats.
The front wire and the rear wire may be located below the wire clip, and when the rear wire is inserted into the wire clip, the center seat may be prevented from protruding forward with respect to the side seats and arranged on the same line as the side seats.
An arm rest may be rotatably coupled to a back part of the center seat.
As described above, according to embodiments of the present invention, the rear seat for a vehicle seats three passengers by using the center seat and the side seats located at left and right of the center seat, and the center seat is configured to move and protrude forward with respect to the side seats, and when the center seat protrudes forward, a distance between the passengers can increase, so that physical contact between the passenger on the center seat and the passengers on the side seats can be prevented as much as possible, and the comfortable seating condition of the rear passengers can be induced.
Hereinbelow, a preferred embodiment described in the specification will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, and regardless of the reference numerals, the same reference numerals will refer to the same or like parts, and redundant descriptions thereof will be omitted.
The suffixes “module and “part” for the components used in the following description are given or mixed in consideration of only the ease of writing the specification, and do not have distinct meanings or roles by themselves.
In the following description, if it is decided that the detailed description of a known function or configuration related to embodiments of the invention makes the subject matter of the embodiments of the invention unclear, the detailed description is omitted.
Furthermore, the accompanying drawings are only for understanding of the preferred embodiments of the present invention, and the technical ideas disclosed in the specification are not limited by the accompanying drawings, and those skilled in the art will appreciate that various modifications, additions and substitutions are possible, without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention as disclosed in the accompanying claims.
It will be understood that, although the terms first and/or second, etc. may be used herein to describe various elements, these elements should not be limited by these terms. These terms are only used to distinguish one element from another element.
It is to be understood that when one element is referred to as being “connected to” or “coupled to” another element, it may be connected directly to or coupled directly to another element or be connected to or coupled to another element, having the other element intervening therebetween.
On the other hand, it is to be understood that when one element is referred to as being “connected directly to” or “coupled directly to” another element, it may be connected to or coupled to another element without the other element intervening therebetween.
Singular forms are intended to include plural forms unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
It will be further understood that the terms “comprises” or “have” used in this specification specify the presence of stated features, steps, operations, components, parts, or a combination thereof, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, numerals, steps, operations, components, parts, or a combination thereof.
Furthermore, a unit or a control unit included in names such as a motor control unit (MCU), a hybrid control unit (HCU), etc. is only a widely used term for a controller that controls a specific function of a vehicle, and does not mean a generic function unit.
The controller may include a communication device communicating with other controllers or a sensor to control the function in charge, a memory storing an operation system or a logic command and input/output information, and at least one process performing a determination, calculation, and decision necessary for controlling the function in charge.
Hereinbelow, a rear seat for a vehicle according to preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
According to embodiments of the present invention, as shown in
In other words, the embodiments according to the present invention include rear seats for three occupants configured to allow the center seat 10 among the rear seats to move forward to protrude forward with respect to the side seats 20, and to allow the forward protruding center seat 10 to move rearward to be restored to an initial position. In the forward protruding state of the center seat 10, an interval between occupants may increase, so that it is possible to prevent physical contact between an occupant on the center seat 10 and occupants on the side seats 20 as much as possible, and thus a comfortable seating state of a rear occupant can be induced.
The center seat 10 includes a center seat back frame 110 and a center seat cushion frame 120 as the frame, and the center seat back frame 110 and the center seat cushion frame 120 are rotatably connected to each other by a first hinge 130 as a medium.
Each of the side seats 20 includes a side seat back frame 210 and a side seat cushion frame 220 as the frame, and the side seat back frame 210 and the side seat cushion frame 220 are rotatably connected to each other by a second hinge 230 as a medium.
The center seat back frame 110 is located at an intermediate position between the side seat back frames 210 and the center seat back frame 110 and the side seat back frames 210 are connected to each other by a link structure, which will be described later, and the center seat cushion frame 120 is placed on an intermediate position between the side seat cushion frames 220 and the center seat cushion frame 120 and the side seat cushion frames 220 are connected to each other by a clip and a wire, which will be described later.
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A plurality of position locking grooves 351 into which a position of each inserted cushion pin 340 is locked is formed in the pin inserting groove 350, and each of the position locking grooves 351 has a downward concave shape, and two position locking grooves 351 are spaced apart from each other forward and rearward.
When the cushion pin 340 is inserted into and located in a front one of the two position locking grooves 351, the center seat 10 moves forward so that a back angle is changed. When the cushion pin 340 is inserted into and located in a rear one of the two position locking grooves 351, the center seat 10 moves rearward and a back angle is restored into the initial position.
The pin inserting groove 350 formed in the second vehicle body bracket 360 may serve to guide a moving direction when the cushion pin 340 moves forward and rearward.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, when the cushion pin 340 moves forward and rearward so as to be inserted into the position locking grooves 351, the side seat cushion frame 220 moves forward and rearward and thus an angle of the side seat back frame 210 is changed, and as the cushion pin 340 moves forward and rearward along the pin inserting groove 350, when the side seat cushion frame 220 moves forward and rearward, the center seat 10 moves together with the side seat cushion frame 220.
For forward and rearward movements of the center seat 10, an embodiment of the present invention includes a first link 410 and a second link 420 by which the center seat back frame 110 and the side seat back frame 210 are connected to each other.
The first link 410 and the second link 420 are respectively arranged on each of opposite side surfaces of the center seat back frame 110 and are connected to the side seat back frame 210.
The first link 410 and the second link 420 are arranged in parallel to each other, and opposite ends of each of the first link 410 and the second link 420 are respectively coupled to the center seat back frame 110 and the side seat back frame 210 in a rotatable hinge structure H1 to H4.
The center seat back frame 110 and the side seat back frame 210 and the first link 410 and the second link 420 have a 4-joint link structure.
When the center seat 10 moves forward and rearward, the side seat back frame 210 of the 4-joint link structure serves as a fixed part that is not changed in position, and each of the first link 410 and the second link 420 serves as a link that rotates on a hinge H2, H4 at a lower end coupled to the side seat back frame 210, and the center seat back frame 110 serves as a moving part moving forward and rearward when the first and second links 410 and 420 rotate.
A lower end of the second link 420 is rotatably coupled to the side seat back frame 210 by a hinge H4 as a medium.
A locking tooth 510 is formed on an outer circumferential surface of the lower end of the second link 420, and at the lower side of the locking tooth 510, a locking lever 520 engaged with the locking tooth 510 is rotatably coupled to the side seat back frame 210 by a lever shaft 521 as a medium, and at the lower side of the locking lever 520, a locking cam 530 engaged with the locking lever 520 is rotatably coupled to the side seat back frame 210 by a cam shaft 531 as a medium.
A cam bracket 540 is coupled to the cam shaft 531 so that the cam bracket 540, the cam shaft 531, and the locking cam 530 integrally rotate.
Furthermore, the cam shaft 531 is coupled to a return spring.
The return spring of the cam shaft 531 accumulates elastic force while being tensioned by an external force when the locking cam 530 rotates so as to be released from locking with the locking lever 520. When the external force is removed from the locking cam 530, the return spring is restored and the locking cam 530 rotates by the accumulated elastic force, so that locking between the locking cam 530 and the locking lever 520 is induced.
A lever bracket 610 is fixed to the side seat cushion frame 220, and the lever bracket 610 is located below a cushion part 11 of the center seat 10. An operation lever 620 is rotatably coupled to the lever bracket 610 by a lever pin 621, a lever spring 630 is provided around the lever pin 621, opposite ends of the lever spring 630 are supported by the lever bracket 610 and the operation lever 620, and a cable 640 is installed to connect the cam bracket 540 to the operation lever 620.
The lever spring 630 supplies an elastic force to the operation lever 620 so that the operation lever 620 rotates toward the cushion part 11 of the center seat 10.
The operation lever 620 is located below the cushion part 11 of the center seat 10. When the cushion part 11 of the center seat 10 is lowered, the operation lever 620 is pressed by the cushion part 11, the cable 640 is relaxed, the locking tooth 510 of the second link 420, the locking lever 520, and the locking cam 530 maintain locked states as shown in
Herein, when the center seat 10 moves forward to protrude or moves rearward to be restored to the initial position, the center seat 10 maintains a state in which movement thereof is impossible by locking of the locking tooth 510, the locking lever 520, and the locking cam 530.
As shown in
A strap 710 is coupled to a front portion of the center seat cushion frame 120 so that the center seat cushion frame 120 protrudes, and a user grabs the strap 710 and lifts up the cushion part 11 of the center seat 10 as shown in arrow M1 in
According to embodiments of the present invention, the center seat cushion frame 120 includes a wire clip 810, and the side seat cushion frame 220 includes a front wire 820 and a rear wire 830 arranged back and forth to be spaced apart from each other and inserted into the wire clip 810.
The front wire 820 and the rear wire 830 are located below the wire clip 810 provided at the center seat cushion frame 120 and are longitudinally spaced apart from each other, each of the wires is transversally extended, and opposite ends of each of the wires are securely coupled to the side seat cushion frame 220.
When the user grabs the strap 710 and lifts and rotates the cushion part 11 of the center seat 10, the front wire 820 or the rear wire 830 is separated from the wire clip 810.
Furthermore, when the cushion part 11 of the center seat 10 rotates upward, the cable 640 is pulled by rotation of the locking lever 520 as described above, so that the cam bracket 540, the locking cam 530, and the locking lever 520 rotate to be released from locking, and when releasing locking, the first and second links 410 and 420 are rotatable, and the center seat 10 is longitudinally movable with respect to the side seats 20.
As shown in
In releasing locking, when the user grabs the strap 710 and pulls forward the cushion part 11 of the center seat 10 in a direction of arrow M2 as shown in
When forward movement of the center seat 10 is completed, the wire clip 810 of the center seat cushion frame 120 is located above the front wire 820.
In a state in which the cushion part 11 of the center seat 10 moves forward and protrudes, in a direction of arrow M3 in
An operation in which the center seat 10 moving forward and protruding moves rearward again to be restored into the initial position can be performed by performing the above-described operation in reverse order, and the description thereof will be omitted.
The rear seat according to the embodiments of the present invention includes the structure in which an arm rest 13 is rotatably coupled to a back part 12 of the center seat 10, and passengers on the side seats 20 can have comfortable ride quality by using the arm rest 13 of the center seat 10.
As described above, according to embodiments of the present invention, the rear seat for a vehicle seats three passengers by using the center seat 10 and the side seats 20 located at left and right of the center seat 10, and the center seat 10 is configured to move forward with respect to the side seats 20 to protrude, and when the center seat 10 protrudes forward, a distance between the passengers can increase, so that physical contact between the passenger on the center seat 10 and the passengers on the side seats 20 can be prevented as much as possible, so that the comfortable seating condition of the rear passengers can be induced.
Although the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been disclosed in detail only with respect to the above specific embodiments, those skilled in the art will appreciate that various modifications, additions, and substitutions are possible, without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention, and it is appropriate that the various modifications, additions, and substitutions belong to the accompanying claims.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10-2022-0089626 | Jul 2022 | KR | national |
