Vehicle seating
AssigneesUniversal Movement Ltd, Safran Seats
InventorsLuke Miles, Hugo Benedict Jamson, Cheuk Wah Vincent Fan
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Abstract
A vehicle seat including: a seat back; a seat pan; and one or more side support elements is disclosed. Each side support element is moveable with respect to the seat back between: a stowed configuration, in which the side support element is stowed flush with, or is stowed within or behind the seat back; and a deployed configuration, in which the side support element extends outwardly from the seat back, generally in the same direction that the seat back faces, so as to offer support to the side of a vehicle user sitting in the vehicle seat. A row of two or more such vehicles seats is also disclosed, in which all of the seats of the row face in the same direction, and adjacent seats within the row are connected to each other.
Claims18
A vehicle seat comprising:
- a seat back, which comprises a backing structure and a cushion, the cushion being mounted on said backing structure;
- a seat pan;
- and
- one or more side support elements, each side support element being hingeably coupled to the seat back and moveable manually with respect to the seat back between:
- a stowed configuration, in which the side support element is stowed within the seat back, between said cushion and said backing structure;
- and
- a deployed configuration, in which the side support element extends outwardly from the seat back, generally in the same direction that the seat back faces, so as to offer support to the side of a vehicle user sitting in the vehicle seat.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.