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US 10,870,375 B2Granted
Additive collapsible seat
AssigneeVolkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
InventorBenedict A. Recktenwald
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Abstract
Devices, systems, and methodologies for vehicle seats include selectively collapsible safety layers providing collapsible support to reduce impulse experienced by the seated passenger imparted by the vehicle seat, which can reduce the likelihood and/or extent of injury attributable to occurrences exceeding threshold momentum changes, such as transportation vehicle collisions.
Claims22
A safety vehicle seat for a transportation vehicle comprising:
- a frame for attachment with the transportation vehicle;
- a comfort section arranged for engagement with a user's body seated on the vehicle seat, the comfort section including a resilient cushion for compression under load of the user's body;
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- a collapsible support that provides support to the comfort section, wherein the collapsible support includes at least one precision safety section configured for failure to permanently collapse in response to a predetermined change in momentum to enable at least a portion of a connection structure to penetrate at least one cavity to reduce impulse between the vehicle seat and the user's body under vehicular collision.
1 more element
A transportation vehicle comprising:
- a chassis;
- a body mounted to the chassis;
- a safety seat secured with the body for supporting a user in the seated position, the safety seat including a frame for attachment with the body, a comfort section arranged for engagement with a user's body seated on the vehicle seat, the comfort section including a resilient cushion for compression under load of the user's body and a collapsible support that provides support to the comfort section, wherein the collapsible support includes at least one precision safety section configured for failure to permanently collapse in response to a predetermined change in momentum to enable at least a portion of a connection structure to penetrate at least one cavity to reduce impulse between the vehicle seat and the user's body under vehicular collision.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.