Vehicle seat
AssigneeGordon Murray Design Limited
InventorFrank Coppuck
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Abstract
A vehicle seat (10) comprises a base unit (12) and an upright seat back (14), the base unit (12) being moulded composite materials with optimised fibre orientations and metallic fixing points for attachment to the vehicle and at least two laterally-spaced upstanding arms (46), the seat back (14) being of a moulded composite material with optimised uni-directional fibre orientations and being attached to each upstanding arm (46) via a connection that is distributed along the vertical direction. This vertical distribution can be achieved by providing a plurality of mechanical attachments (48) between the two parts, with the attachments (48) spaced apart in the vertical direction.
Claims36
A vehicle seat comprising a base unit and an upright seat back, the base unit being at least partly metallic, and comprising fixing points for attachment to the vehicle and at least two laterally-spaced upstanding arms, the seat back being of a moulded composite material and being attached to each upstanding arm via a vertically-distributed connection.
A vehicle seat according to any one of the preceding claims in which the connections between the upstanding arms and the seat back are vertically distributed by comprising a plurality of mechanical attachments therebetween, spaced apart in the vertical direction.
A vehicle seat according to any one of the preceding claims in which the connections between the upstanding arms and the seat back are vertically distributed by embedding the upstanding arms within the material of the seat back.
A vehicle seat according to any one of the preceding claims in which the base unit also comprises moulded composite materials.
A vehicle seat according to any one of the preceding claims further comprising a seat base, attached to the base unit.
A vehicle seat according to any one of the preceding claims in which the base unit includes slidable adjusters to allow the fore/aft position of the upstanding arms relative to the fixing points to be adjusted.
A vehicle seat according to any one of the preceding claims in which the upstanding arms are disposed adjacent to either lateral side of the seat back.
A vehicle seat according to any one of the preceding claims in which the seat back comprises reinforced sections define by multiple layers of moulded composite materials.
A vehicle seat according to any one of the preceding claims in which the seat back comprises at least one region of uni-directional fibre orientation.
A vehicle seat according to any one of the preceding claims in which the composite material is a fibre-reinforced composite.
A vehicle seat according to any one of the preceding claims in which the base unit includes a seat base of a fibre-reinforced composite material.
A vehicle seat substantially as herein described with reference to and/or as illustrated in the accompanying figures.
A vehicle comprising at least one seat according to any one of the preceding claims.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.