US 2010/0060045 A1Published application

Vehicle seat having an anti-submarining device and method

AssigneeJohnson Controls GmbH

InventorsBernd Gross, Harald Mund

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Abstract

The invention relates to vehicle seat comprising a seat part and to a restraint device and a corresponding method of manufacture. The vehicle seat comprises an anti-submarining restraint device for preventing an occupant from slipping through on the vehicle seat when decelerated due to a crash, said restraint device being settable to a retracted inactive position and said restraint device being settable to an extended active position. The seat part, in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, has lateral seat parts on both sides of the seat, a padding defining a seat area and a padding support (34) below said padding. The restraint device also comprises a tilting element (24) between the padding support and the padding and spaced apart from the lateral parts, said tilting element having at least one deformable element (24) as an energy dissipation element.

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Dependent claims

A vehicle seat (10) comprising a seat section (30) and with a restraint device (20) for preventing submarining of a passenger on the vehicle seat (10) in the case of an accident-induced deceleration, wherein the restraint device (20) has a retracted inactive position (21), and wherein the restraint device (20) has an extended active position (22), wherein the seat section (30) has seat side sections (31) extending in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle, wherein the seat section (30) has a padding (33) which defines a seat surface (32), and a padding support (34) which is provided beneath the padding (33), wherein the restraint device (20) has a positioning element (24) between the padding support (34) and the padding (33) and is positioned at a distance from the seat side sections (31), and an upper section (46) between the positioning element (24) and the padding (33), and wherein one of the positioning element (24) and the upper section (46) has at least one energy dissipation element (24′, 24″, 51, 52, 53).

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