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US 2022/0105840 A1Published application
Vehicle seat assembly
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsFernando Lozano Omaña, Dante Arturo Rodriguez Camacho, Luis Enrique Castillo Jaime, Michelle Carolina Herrera Gutienez, Zhibing Deng
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Abstract
An assembly includes a seat bottom having a rear and a pair of sides extending in a seat-forward direction from the rear. The assembly includes a seatback rotatably supported by the seat bottom. The assembly includes an active actuator operatively connected to the seatback to rotate the seatback about a vertical axis toward one of the sides of the seat bottom.
Claims18
An assembly, comprising:
- a seat bottom having a rear and a pair of sides extending in a seat-forward direction from the rear;
- a seatback rotatably supported by the seat bottom;
- a swivel connected between the seat bottom and the seatback, the swivel permitting rotation of the seatback toward one of the sides of the seat bottom to a rotated position and inhibiting rotation of the seatback from the rotated position toward the other of the sides of the seat bottom;
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- an active actuator operatively connected to the seatback to rotate the seatback about a vertical axis toward one of the sides of the seat bottom.
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