Deployable seat frame brace
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsMohammad Omar Faruque, S.M. Iskander Farooq, Dean M. Jaradi
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Abstract
A seat system includes a seat bottom having a seat bottom frame and a seatback having a seatback frame pivotably supported by the seat bottom frame. The seat system also includes a seat frame brace movable between a stowed configuration and a deployed configuration. The seat frame brace includes a bottom link coupled to the seat bottom frame and a back link coupled to the seatback frame at a first end and coupled to the bottom link at a second end. An actuator is coupled to the seat frame brace and operative to move the seat frame brace from the stowed configuration to the deployed configuration.
Claims16
A seat system, comprising:
- a seat bottom having a seat bottom frame and a seatback having a seatback frame pivotably supported by the seat bottom frame;
- a seat frame brace movable between a stowed configuration and a deployed configuration, the seat frame brace including:
- a bottom link pivotably mounted to the seat bottom frame;
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- a back link pivotably mounted to the seatback frame at a first end, and the back link being pivotably and slidingly coupled to the bottom link at a second end;
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- a lock between the bottom link and the back link, the lock being carried by the bottom link between the stowed configuration and the deployed configuration, the lock being operative to lock the back link and the bottom link in the deployed configuration;
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- an actuator between the bottom link and the seat bottom frame and operative to move the seat frame brace from the stowed configuration to the deployed configuration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.