| US 7,484,798 B2 | ||
| Car seat | ||
| Hiroyoshi Yamaguchi, Yokohama (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to NHK Spring Co., Ltd., Yokohama-shi (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Sep. 10, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/898,164. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2006-248498 (JP), filed on Sep. 13, 2006. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2008/0061608 A1, Mar. 13, 2008 | ||
| Int. Cl. B60N 2/42 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 297—216.12 [297/216.13] | 3 Claims |
| 1. A car seat, comprising:
a seat body including a seat back and a headrest having a pair of legs, the headrest being connected to the seat back at the
upper side of the seat back through the pair of legs;
a load detecting section provided in the seat back, the load detecting section including a movable portion that moves in a
predetermined direction when receiving a load from the front side of the seat back;
an elevating mechanism including a moving body that moves in a predetermined direction by interlocking with the movement of
the movable portion, and a pair of interlocking members that respectively engage with the moving body, and move by interlocking
with the moving body, one of the pair of legs elevating due to the movement of one of the pair of interlocking members, and
the other one of the pair of legs elevating due to the movement of the other one of the pair of interlocking members; and
a forward shifting section that shifts the headrest side of the pair of legs forward as the pair of legs elevate;
wherein a moving direction of the moving body is set in a direction along a vertical direction of the seat body; and
the pair of interlocking members comprise a pair of rotatable arms that are connected to the moving body rotatably around
an axis whose axial direction is in the front-rear direction of the seat body and that rotate as the moving body elevates.
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