The present invention provides an occupant knee support device capable of maintaining a sitting posture suitable for pedal replacement when a low-muscle-strength person drives. An occupant knee support device is provided in a vehicle including: a seat having a seat surface portion on which the waist and thighs of an occupant are placed; and an accelerator pedal and a brake pedal disposed on the front side of the seat surface, the occupant knee support device being configured so as to comprise: a knee outer surface support member that switches from a housed state in which the knee outer surface support member is provided on the side of the seat surface to a supported state in which the knee outer surface support member protrudes forward and upward with respect to the seat surface and supports the knee outer surface of the occupant; a knee lower surface support member provided in the vicinity of the front end portion of the seat surface portion, the knee lower surface support member being switched from a stowed state in which the knee lower surface support member is separated from the knee lower surface of the occupant to a supported state in which the knee lower surface of the occupant is supported; and a drive unit that switches the knee outer surface support member and the knee lower surface support member from the stowed state to the supported state.
本发明提供在低肌力者驾驶的情况下能够维持适于踏板的踩踏替换的就坐姿势的乘员膝部支承装置。乘员膝部支承装置设置于车辆,车辆具有:座椅,具有供乘员的腰部及大腿部载放的座面部;以及加速踏板及制动踏板,配置于座面部的前方侧,乘员膝部支承装置构成为,具备:膝部外侧面支承构件,从设置于座面部的侧部的收纳状态向相对于座面部向前方侧及上方侧伸出且支承乘员的膝部外侧面的支承状态转换;膝部下表面支承构件,设置于座面部的前端部附近,并从与乘员的膝部下表面分离的收纳状态向支承乘员的膝部下表面的支承状态转换;以及驱动部,使膝部外侧面支承构件及膝部下表面支承构件从收纳状态向支承状态转换。
Occupant knee support device
乘员膝部支承装置
2024-08-02
Patent
Electronic Resource
Chinese
IPC: | B60N SEATS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLES , Sitze besonders für Fahrzeuge ausgebildet |