# US 12,759,443 B2 · Covering for a fastening device, and vehicle seat > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,759,443 B2 - Document ID: US12759443B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 18/522,337 - Filed: 2023-11-29 - Published: 2024-06-06 - Granted: 2026-10-13 - Earliest claimed: 2022-12-01 - Assignees: Adient US LLC - Applicants: Adient US LLC - Inventors: Claudia Schmidt; Johan Lindqvist; Andrew Bedwin; Stefan Carlsson; Andrea Vogel; Sven Oldach; Tamas Karacsonyi - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12759443B2 ## CPC - B60N 2/6009: {covering more than only the seat} - B60N 2/2806: {for securing the child seat to the vehicle} - B60N 2/5825: {by hooks, staples, clips, snap fasteners or the like} - B60N: SEATS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLES; VEHICLE PASSENGER ACCOMMODATION NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR ## Abstract A covering for a fastening device for a child seat on a vehicle seat may be a three-dimensionally shaped lining strip which has at least two passage openings for the fastening device. Furthermore, a vehicle seat may have the covering. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A vehicle seat comprising at least one fastening device for a child seat, a covering for the at least one fastening device, and at least one cushion element which has a recess for the fastening device, wherein the covering is formed modularly and comprises a number of covering units, wherein a first covering unit is designed as a three-dimensionally shaped first lining strip for a front fastening unit of the child seat and/or a second covering unit is designed as a three-dimensionally shaped second lining strip for a rear fastening unit of the child seat, wherein the covering can be arranged on the vehicle seat in such a manner that a passage opening of the covering and the recess of the cushion element lie one above the other and the fastening device is accessible from the outside through them in order to fasten the child seat to said fastening device. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein the cushion element is covered or coverable by a seat cover, and the covering is fastenable or fastened to an underside of the seat cover and/or to the cushion element so as to cover at least one opening in the seat cover. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The vehicle seat according to claim 2 wherein the seat cover has a number of openings which correspond in number and shape to the passage openings in the covering. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein the fastening device is designed as at least one positionally fixed fastening hoop, a U-shaped hoop and/or a positionally fixed anchoring. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The vehicle seat according to claim 4, wherein the positionally fixed fastening hoop and/or the positionally fixed anchoring is or are configured to releasably fasten a mating fastening device of the child seat. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The vehicle seat according to claim 5, wherein the mating fastening device is a lower child seat fastening and/or an upper child seat fastening. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The vehicle seat according to claim 6, wherein the lower child seat fastening can be coupled to the front fastening unit and/or the upper child seat fastening can be coupled to the rear fastening unit. ### Claim 8 A vehicle seat comprising at least one fastening device for a child seat, a covering for the at least one fastening device, and at least one cushion element which has a recess for the fastening device, wherein the covering is formed modularly and comprises a number of covering units, wherein a first covering unit is designed as a three-dimensionally shaped first lining strip for a front fastening unit of the child seat and/or a second covering unit is designed as a three-dimensionally shaped second lining strip for a rear fastening unit of the child seat, wherein the cushion element is covered or coverable by a seat cover, and the covering is fastenable or fastened to an underside of the seat cover and/or to the cushion element so as to cover at least one opening in the seat cover. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The vehicle seat according to claim 8, wherein the seat cover has a number of openings which correspond in number and shape to the passage openings in the covering. ### Claim 10 (depends on 8) The vehicle seat according to claim 8, wherein the covering can be arranged on the vehicle seat in such a manner that a passage opening of the covering and a recess of the cushion element lie one above the other and the fastening device is accessible from the outside through them in order to fasten the child seat to said fastening device. ### Claim 11 (depends on 8) The vehicle seat according to claim 8, wherein the fastening device is designed as at least one positionally fixed fastening hoop, a U-shaped hoop and/or a positionally fixed anchoring. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The vehicle seat according to claim 11, wherein the positionally fixed fastening hoop and/or the positionally fixed anchoring is or are configured to releasably fasten a mating fastening device of the child seat. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The vehicle seat according to claim 12, wherein the mating fastening device is a lower child seat fastening and/or an upper child seat fastening. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The vehicle seat according to claim 13, wherein the lower child seat fastening can be coupled to the front fastening unit and/or the upper child seat fastening can be coupled to the rear fastening unit.