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US 10,703,244 B2Granted
Motor vehicle seat with an integrated child seat
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorMarkus Reith
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Abstract
A motor vehicle seat with an integrated child seat comprises inflatable chambers that can be brought from a compressed air source. The child seat includes air chambers that are inflatable in multiple, e.g., three, stages, and which are fixed, e.g., adhesively bonded or stitched, to the surface of the motor vehicle seat.
Claims9
A motor vehicle seat comprising an integrated child seat, the child seat comprising:
- an inflatable chamber transformable from a compressed undeployed state into an inflated deployed state by a compressed air source,
- wherein the chamber includes a plurality of inflatable stages, each of the stages connected to, and separately inflatable by, the compressed air source and defined by respective layers of woven fabric that are each fixed to a surface of the motor vehicle seat,
- wherein a first stage includes a first intermediate space between the surface of the motor vehicle seat and a first layer of woven fabric, and a second stage includes a second intermediate space between the first layer of woven fabric and a second layer of woven fabric.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.