Easy entrance/exit system for a vehicle
AssigneeToyota Research Institute, Inc.
InventorsDaniel J. Brooks, Manuel Ludwig Kuehner, Jaime Camhi
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Abstract
An easy entrance/exit system for a vehicle includes a vehicle seat, a pad, a pad-side magnetic device, and a seat-side magnet. The vehicle seat includes a seat base. The pad is supported atop the seat base for swiveling about a pivot point. The pad-side magnetic device is coupled to the pad at the pivot point. The seat-side magnet is within the seat base at the pivot point. The seat-side magnet is configured to apply a magnetic field to the pad-side magnetic device to govern swiveling of the pad about the pivot point.
Claims19
An easy entrance/exit system for a vehicle, comprising:
- a vehicle seat, the vehicle seat including a seat base;
- a pad, the pad supported atop the seat base for swiveling about a pivot point;
- a pad-side magnetic device coupled to the pad at the pivot point;
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- a seat-side magnet within the seat base at the pivot point, the seat-side magnet configured to apply a magnetic field to the pad-side magnetic device to govern swiveling of the pad about the pivot point.
An easy entrance/exit system for a vehicle, comprising:
- a vehicle seat, the vehicle seat including a seat base;
- a pad, the pad slidably resting on the seat base for swiveling about a pivot point;
- a pad-side magnetic element integrated with the pad at the pivot point;
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- a seat-side magnet within the seat base at the pivot point, the seat-side magnet configured to apply a magnetic field to the pad-side magnetic element to create a rotary coupling that mounts the pad to the seat base at the pivot point and allows swiveling of the pad about the pivot point.
An easy entrance/exit system for a vehicle, comprising:
- a vehicle seat, the vehicle seat including a seat base;
- a pad assembly, the pad assembly including a baseplate non-slidably resting on the seat base, a pad atop the baseplate, and a rotary bearing mounted between the baseplate and the pad at a pivot point, the rotary bearing supporting the pad atop the seat base for swiveling about the pivot point, and including magnetorheological damping fluid;
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- a seat-side magnet within the seat base at the pivot point, the seat-side magnet configured to apply a magnetic field to the magnetorheological damping fluid to govern swiveling of the pad about the pivot point.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.