Motor vehicle seat arrangement having a side cheek movable between a rest position and an operating position
AssigneeVolkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
InventorRuprecht Sinnhuber
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Abstract
To protect a vehicle occupant in a side collision without inconvenience to an occupant in getting in and out of the vehicle, a vehicle seat includes a side cheek member adjacent to a side wall of the vehicle and the outer surface of the side cheek member is arranged so that inward penetration of the side wall of the vehicle in a side collision will force the side cheek member in the direction of increasing penetration into the space between a vehicle occupant and the outside wall of the vehicle.
Claims7
A motor vehicle having a side wall comprising a seat mounted adjacent to the side wall of the vehicle and including a side cheek member movable between a rest position permitting an occupant of the seat to move out of the seat easily and an operative position in which the cheek is disposed at least partially between an occupant of the seat and a side wall, wherein the cheek member has an outer surface facing the side wall of the vehicle which is inclined with respect to the side wall of the vehicle so that the side wall, when forced against the cheek member during a side collision, exerts a moment on the cheek member to force it in the direction toward its operative position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.