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US 10,766,392 B2Granted
Seat including deployable plate
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsDeepak Patel, Zhibing Deng, Matthew B. Makowski, Sean Timothy Ryan
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Abstract
A seat includes a seat back frame and a mounting plate fixed to the seat back frame. A deployable plate is movably engaged with the mounting plate and is moveable away from the seat back frame from an undeployed position to a deployed position. An actuator is coupled to the deployable plate.
Claims15
A seat comprising:
- a seat back frame;
- a mounting plate fixed to the seat back frame;
- a deployable plate movably engaged with the mounting plate and moveable away from the seat back frame from an undeployed position to a deployed position;
- a cushion fixed to the deployable plate;
- a pyrotechnic actuator coupled to the deployable plate;
- a bolster and a backrest adjacent to the bolster, the deployable plate being in the bolster and having an inner surface facing the mounting plate and an outer surface facing the backrest;
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- wherein the cushion is fixed to the outer face of the deployable plate.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.