Patent ID: 8016353
Filing Date: 2011-09-13
Classification: B60N,B60R

Abstract:
1. A vehicle seat, comprising: a monitor that is movable from a storage state to a use state, wherein: the monitor is disposed toward a rear, in the storage state the monitor is positioned in a semitransparent backboard of a seatback and the monitor faces the backboard, at least an outer circumferential edge portion of the backboard comprises an opaque layer formed by performing shading treatment to a surface of the backboard, the edge portion enclosing a periphery of the display surface of the monitor in the storage state, the outer circumferential edge portion of the backboard is subjected to gradation processing through the shading treatment, by which the edge portion becomes gradually semitransparent from an outer circumferential edge of the backboard to the center thereof, and the gradation is formed by forming a large number of micropores of which the diameter becomes larger as the micropores approach an inner circumferential edge of the opaque layer, and in the use state a display surface of the monitor is exposed outside of the backboard.