Patent ID: 8833850
Filing Date: 2014-09-16
Classification: B60N

Abstract:
1. A vehicle seat including a rod provided between left and right side frames of a seat cushion, wherein the rod is provided with a weakened part which is configured to promote a buckling distortion of the rod in a predetermined direction so that the rod is subjected to flexion deformity in a first direction which is a direction away from a battery unit provided at a lower part of the seat cushion when a side collision occurs in which an impact load is inputted to the seat cushion from a side of the vehicle seat, wherein the weakened part includes a first weakened portion and a second weakened portion which respectively weakens a portion of a surface of the rod facing the first direction and a portion of a surface of the rod facing a second direction opposite to the first direction at an end portion of a side of the rod to which the impact load is inputted, so that the rod is configured to be bent in the first direction and the second direction, and wherein the first weakened portion is provided closer to the side to which the impact load is inputted than the second weakened portion.