Vehicle rear seat device

Abstract

A vehicular rear seat unit (1) includes a bench seat (2) including a seat cushion (7) with three seat sections (4, 5, 6) arranged side by side, the seat cushion having a pair of frame members (23, 30, 24, 31) provided at positions corresponding to both side portions of the middle seat section (4); seat belt anchors (A, B, C, D) for the seat sections (4, 5, 6), the seat belt anchors (A, B, C, D) being attached to the respective frame members (23, 30, 24, 31); and a seat slide device (3) including a pair of movable rails (29) to which the respective frame members (23, 30, 24, 31) are individually fixed, and a pair of fixed rails (28) which slidably support the respective movable rails (29), the fixed rails (28) being individually fixed to a vehicle body floor.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED PATENT APPLICATIONS [0001] The present Application claims the benefit of priority to the following international Applications: PCT Patent Application No. PCT / JP2003 / 005177 titled “Vehicular Rear Seat Unit” filed on Apr. 23, 2003 which published under PCT Article 21(2) on Nov. 6, 2003 as WO 03 / 091061 A1 in the Japanese language and Japanese Patent Application No. 2002-122906 filed on Apr. 24, 2002 (which are hereby incorporated herein by reference in their entirety).FIELD [0002] This invention relates to a vehicular rear seat unit in which a bench seat for three passengers is mounted on a seat slide device. BACKGROUND [0003] In a vehicular rear seat unit constructed by mounting a bench seat for three passengers, that is, a bench seat including a seat cushion having a middle seat section and right and left seat sections provided on both right and left sides of the middle seat section with the middle seat section sandwiched there between, on a seat slide devi...

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Benefits of technology

[0007] The present invention is made in view of the above-described problems. An object of the present invention is to provide a vehicular rear seat unit including a seat belt attachment structure capable of surely restraining passengers, which realizes a simplified frame structure and weight reduction of a seat in addition to an improvement in comfort of a vehicle and ease in getting in and out of the vehicle.

Problems solved by technology

The above-described rear seat unit has some problems.

For example, the respective rails of the seat slide device are individually installed in the substantially transversely central parts of the one-side and the-other-side seat sections, and accordingly, impair cushioning characteristics of these seat sections, resulting in reduction of comfort of a vehicle.

Moreover, leg members fixing the respective rails of the seat slide device are located in the vicinity of doors, and hinder passengers from getting in and out of the vehicle, resulting in reduction of ease in getting in and out of the vehicle.

Accordingly, it is necessary to reinforce the bench seat for the impact load endurance, resulting in a complicated frame structure and in a weight increase of the rear seat unit.

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