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US 12,194,895 B2Granted
Full seat pan with tilt function
AssigneesNingbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co., Ltd.
InventorsJohan Höcks, Glenn Edsbäcker Sjö
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Abstract
A seat pan for a vehicle seat. The seat pan includes a rear portion and a front portion. The seat pan includes a flexible area arranged between the rear portion and the front portion, said flexible area enabling the front portion to be arranged in a tilted state relative to the rear portion and wherein the seat pan is formed in a single piece.
Claims19
A seat pan for a vehicle seat that has a seat cushion and a seat frame that supports the seat pan, the seat pan comprising:
- a rear portion;
- a front portion;
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- a flexible area between the rear portion and the front portion, wherein the rear portion supports the seat cushion rearward of the flexible area and the front portion supports the seat cushion forward of the flexible area;
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- wherein the rear portion, the flexible area and the front portion are together of one piece construction and the flexible area connects the rear portion and the front portion so that, the front portion is repeatedly tiltable and un-tiltable with respect to the rear portion by pivoting about the flexible area, and
- wherein the front portion comprises attachment points at which the front portion attaches to the seat frame and the attachment points define a pivot axis of the front portion relative to the seat frame.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.