Patent ID: 9333886
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: B60N,Y10T

Claim Text:
1. A method of assembling a vehicle seat, comprising: providing a seat back frame; forwardly movably connecting a headrest for supporting a head of a seat occupant to the seat back frame; mounting a rear-end collision detector to the seat back frame at a position behind the seat occupant, wherein the rear-end collision detector detects rearward movement of the seat occupant and is movable rearward; operatively connecting the rear-end collision detector to the headrest such that the rearward movement of the rear-end collision detector forwardly moves the headrest; disposing a link member at a position lateral to the rear-end collision detector; mounting a bracket to a side frame that constitutes a side portion of the seat back frame; mounting a link support shaft to the bracket, with the link member being mounted to the link support shaft; forming a front extending portion that inwardly extends in a right-to-left direction and is formed at a front end of a lateral face of the side frame; and forming a rear extending portion that inwardly extends in the right-to-left direction and is formed at a rear end of the lateral face of the side frame; wherein: at least a part of the bracket is disposed on the lateral face of the side frame and between the front extending portion and the rear extending portion; a protruding portion inwardly protruding is integrally formed from a portion of the lateral face of the side frame that faces at least the part of the bracket, the link support shaft being disposed at a same height as the protruding portion; and at least the part of the bracket is directly attached to the integrally formed protruding portion.