Rear seat climate control

An occupant support for use in a vehicle, the occupant support comprising

• a seat bottom,
• a seat back coupled to the seat bottom and arranged to extend upwardly relative to the seat bottom, the seat back including a backrest and a headrest coupled to the backrest, and
• a climate control system coupled to the backrest and including a plurality of conditioned-air passageways that extend through an interior of the backrest, a plurality of air-discharge openings that open from the interior space of the backrest toward a rear-row occupant region directly behind the seat back, and a conditioned-air supply system configured to provide a conditioned airflow that is conducted through the plurality of conditioned-air passageways and out of the air-discharge openings into the rear-row occupant region,
• wherein the plurality of air-discharge openings includes at least one air-discharge opening located in an uppermost quarter of the backrest and in a lowermost quarter of the seat back, and
• wherein backrest includes an outer trim layer that provides a front surface of the occupant support and a back panel coupled to the outer trim layer to provide a rigid boundary for the backrest and to define an interior space of the occupant support between the front surface and the back panel, and wherein the back panel includes a forward-facing surface facing toward the interior space and a rearward-facing surface facing away from the interior space, and wherein the plurality of conditioned-air passageways are formed directly into the back panel between the forward-facing surface and the rearward-facing surface,
• wherein the backrest further includes a support layer arranged within the interior space and a filler layer between the support layer and the front surface of the outer trim layer, and
• wherein the support layer is arranged to lie between the forward-facing surface of the back panel and the filler layer.