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US 10,207,614 B1Granted
Resettable armrest bracket, armrest mounting system and method of mitigating injury in event of a side impact
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsMohammad Omar Faruque, Dean M. Jaradi, S. M. Iskander Farooq
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Abstract
An armrest mounting system includes an armrest having at least one projecting mount, a door inner including an inner margin defining an armrest accommodation feature and at least one resettable armrest bracket carried on the door inner and engaging the at least one projecting mount extending through the armrest accommodation feature. A related method of mitigating an injury in the event of a side impact is also disclosed.
Claims15
A resettable armrest bracket;
- comprising:
- a body including a first segment connected to a second segment by a first bend, said second segment connected to a third segment by a second bend and said third segment connected to a fourth segment by a third bend, said first segment forming a door inner abutment and said fourth segment forming an armrest support wherein said fourth segment includes a receiver to receive and hold a mount projecting from an armrest and said receiver is a first half socket.
An armrest mounting system, comprising:
- an armrest including at least one projecting mount;
- a door inner including an inner margin defining an armrest accommodation feature;
- and
- at least one resettable armrest bracket carried on said door inner and engaging said at least one projecting mount extending through said armrest accommodation feature.
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A method of mitigating injury in event of a side impact, comprising:
- mounting an armrest on a resettable armrest bracket fixed to a door inner;
- incorporating an armrest accommodation feature into said door inner;
- and
- displacing said armrest through said armrest accommodation feature from a home position inboard said door inner to an injury mitigation position at least partially outboard of said door inner in response to said side impact.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.