Patent ID: 8371651

Claim:
A child seat mountable vehicle seat, comprising: a metal striker formed in a substantially inverted-U-shape, attached to a seat cushion frame to rise therefrom to be positioned at a rear portion of a seat cushion, and configured to selectively engage with a latching device of a child seat; a seat skin covering a cushion pad and including a front skin and a rear skin; a stitched portion formed by stitching together ends of the front skin and the rear skin; a non-stitched portion formed in the stitched portion to define an opening from which the metal striker is projected to a sitting surface side of the seat cushion; a trim plate having a width as wide as a longitudinal direction of the non-stitched portion and a length extending over the front skin and the rear skin, the trim plate including: two notched portions recessed from a front edge of the trim plate to respectively receive vertical shaft portions of the metal striker; a tongue portion defined between the notched portions to extend forwards further than the vertical shaft portions of the metal striker which are received in the notched portions; strip portions defined by the notched portions at lateral sides to extend forwards further than the vertical shaft portions of the metal striker; and a connecting portion connecting the tongue portion and the strip portions together to extend rearwards further than the vertical shaft portions of the metal striker; and extension portions extending from the ends of the front skin and the rear skin where the non-stitched portion is defined and each having a width corresponding to a width of the inverted U-shaped metal striker, wherein the extension portion of the front skin is turned over from the non-stitched portion towards an inner surface side of the front skin so as to extend forwards, while the extension portion of the rear skin extends forwards further than the vertical shaft portions of the metal striker, wherein the trim plate is applied along an inner surface side of the rear skin, the tongue portion of the trim plate is stitched to the extension portion of the rear skin which extends forwards further than the vertical shaft portions of the metal striker, the strip portions of the trim plate are stitched to ends of the non-stitched portion, wherein, in the non-stitched portion, the extension portion of the front skin is superposed on the extension portion of the rear skin with respect to a direction in which the latching device is moved to latch the metal striker, and wherein the trim plate further includes a recessed cutout portion provided at a center of the connecting portion so as to extend forwards from a rear edge of the connecting portion and to have a width corresponding to a width of the latching device.