Seat shell for a motor vehicle seat
AssigneeDaimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
InventorGerhard Janz
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Abstract
In a one-piece seat shell which consists of at least two individual seats and which, on every outer seating edge, has a closed channel which runs from the front side of the seat up to the upper side of the seat back and is set back from the rear side of the seat shell and which is provided on the channel base side with reinforcing portions for accommodating fastening means, a further channel, formed like the outer lying channel, is also located in the transition area between the two individual seats and is likewise closed on the front side.
Claims15
A single seat shell for a motor vehicle seat, having an integrally formed outer edge and a first channel portion having an integral channel bottom area and an open top area which runs along at least said outer edge from a front side of the seat up to an upper side of a seat back and which is provided with reinforcing members for accommodating fastening means for supporting the seat shell, with the channel being set back from a rear side of the seat shell, from a seating and seat back surface, and the channel being closed by closure means configured to the surface of the seat shell to define a hollow space wherein:
- the single seat shell comprises at least two individual seats connected in one piece to one another, and that
- a connecting area between the seating area of two individual seats is formed by two adjacent portions of the seating area having downwardly extending portions defining side walls of a channel portion of the seat shell and having a bottom portion connecting said downwardly extending portions and an open top area, the channel portion being closed by a closure portion means.
- and wherein said closed channel portions provide internal rigidity to the single seat shell.
A single seat shell for a motor vehicle seat and having a front and back and with at least a plurality of seat portions, each seat having a corresponding seat back, each seat portion and seat back having a left side edge and a right side edge, each seat back having a top edge, and comprising
- a channel portion of said shell contiguous to all said side edges and said top edges and having an open area toward said seat portion and seat back,
- means closing the open area of said channel portion to form a space,
- and wherein said closed channel portion between the seat portions being defined by downwardly integral projecting parts of said seat portions which are interconnected by a bottom integral part of said seat portion
- and wherein all said closed channel portions provide internal rigidity to the single seat shell.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.