Backrest for a vehicle seat and vehicle seat with the backrest
AssigneeGM Global Technology Operations LLC
InventorsThomas Jenny, Juergen Maier
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Abstract
A backrest for a vehicle seat having a backrest side rail for supporting a side of a body of an occupant sitting on the vehicle seat, having an airbag and having a gas generator for protecting the occupant, having a hard cover housing for arrangement on the backrest side rail, wherein the hard cover housing in a lateral plan view is designed as a half shell arranged along a longitudinal extent of the backrest side rail with two longitudinal edges spaced from one another, wherein the airbag and the gas generator can be pushed in and/or are pushed in between the two longitudinal edges.
Claims15
A backrest for a vehicle seat comprising:
- a backrest side rail configured to support a side of a seat occupant;
- a hard cover housing having a half shell in a lateral plan view arranged in a region along a longitudinal extent of the backrest side rail with a first longitudinal edge and a second longitudinal edge spaced from the first longitudinal edge;
- and
- an airbag module with modular components positioned in between the two longitudinal edges, wherein the modular components include an airbag and a gas generator,
- wherein the hard cover housing is tensioned to press the airbag against the backrest side rail.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.