Patent ID: 9352666
Filing Date: 2016-05-31
CPC Classification: B60N

Claim Text:
1. A vehicle seat with a height adjustable seat bottom, comprising: left and right side frames each including a main body portion extending in a front-rear direction and a mount portion for a seat back frame, the mount portion protruding from a rear portion of the main body portion upward, the left and right side frames constituting left and right frames of the seat bottom; a height adjustment mechanism configured to allow the left and right side frames to be lifted and lowered; and an operation unit including an operation member configured to be operated by an occupant to cause the height adjustment mechanism to be actuated, wherein the operation unit is so disposed that at least a part thereof lies over the mount portion, wherein one of the side frames has a recessed portion that is recessed in one of left and right directions that faces inward, the operation unit being fixed to a bottom wall of the recessed portion, wherein the height adjustment mechanism includes: left and right rear links rotatably joined to the rear portion of the main body potion; left and right front links rotatably joined to the main body portion at positions frontward of the rear links; and a link support member disposed below the side frames and configured to support the rear links and the front links in a manner that permits the front and rear links to rotate, to thereby form a four-bar linkage, and wherein at least the one of the side frames to which the operation unit is fixed has a link mount recess portion that is recessed relative to the bottom wall of the recessed portion in one of left and right directions that faces inward, at least one of the front links being joined to an inner side of a bottom wall of the link mount recess portion which inner side faces inward in the one of left and right directions.