Patent ID: 9573503
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: B60N

Claim:
1. A vehicle seat comprising: a seat frame that constitutes a frame of the vehicle seat; a seat pad that is disposed on the seat frame and that defines an outer shape of the vehicle seat and that elastically supports an occupant; a planar backing material that is integrated with the seat pad and that covers a reverse face of the seat pad; and a planar contact member that is harder than the backing material, wherein the seat pad includes a main portion that allows the occupant to be seated, and a bank portion that is disposed at an outer side of the vehicle seat with respect to the main portion, and that protrudes toward a seating side, the main portion is disposed in the seat frame, and a reverse face side of the bank portion contacts the seat frame so as to be supported by the seat frame, the contact member is provided on a side of the backing material that faces the seat frame such that the contact member and the backing material are movable relative to each other, and the bank portion is configured to be pressed in a width direction of the vehicle seat such that an end portion side of the seat pad that constitutes the bank portion is deformed around a contact portion of the contact member that contacts the seat frame and the backing material and the seat pad including the bank portion move in a crushing direction relative to a portion of the contact member that contacts the seat frame.