US 11,760,242 B2Granted

Vehicle seat backrest

AssigneeFAURECIA Sièges d'Automobile

InventorsCarsten Reith, Jean-Marie Mauffrey, Didier Duriez, Yesh Prajapati, Jean-Yves Piederriere, Etienne Poulet, Benoît Gazaniol

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Abstract

A backrest of a vehicle seat includes an armature and an upholstery fixed to the armature. The upholstery has a slit for accommodating a headrest support rod by relative movement of the upholstery with respect to the armature in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle seat. The backrest further includes first and second trim elements. Each trim element forms a notch. The notches of the first and second trim elements define a passage for a headrest support rod. The second trim element partially covers the slit in the upholstery. The first and/or the second trim elements is/are in contact with the upholstery.

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Dependent claims

A vehicle seat backrest comprising:

a backrest armature,
a backrest upholstery fixed to the backrest armature, the backrest upholstery having at least one slit, each slit being adapted to receive a headrest support rod by relative movement of the upholstery with respect to the backrest armature in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle seat, and
at least a first trim element and a second trim element, each trim element forming at least one notch, a notch of the first trim element and a notch of the second trim element defining a passage for a headrest support rod, the second trim element covering at least partially the at least one slit in the upholstery, at least one of the first and second trim elements being in contact with the upholstery,
wherein the first trim element is fixed to at least one of the upholstery and the backrest armature.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.