Seat module for a vehicle seat which can be actively ventilated and method of making same

Seat module, which is designed as a seat cushion or backrest and can be actively ventilated, having a cushion, which has a cushion pad impermeable to air and an upholstered zone that extends over the latter and through which air can be made to flow and which is covered by an air-permeable cushion cover,

• wherein the upholstered zone through which air can be made to flow has three layers and is composed in the manner of a sandwich of two rubberized hair layers and a knitted layer of coarse-mesh knitted spacing fabric in between the hair layers,
• wherein to tension the cushion cover, it is drawn into tacking seams that divide the cushion into a face area and two side areas extending in the longitudinal direction;
• wherein the tacking seams are formed in the upholstered zone;
• wherein the tacking seams are fixed in the upper rubberized hair layer above the knitted layer of coarse-mesh knitted spacing fabric in between the hair layers without reducing a height of the knitted layer;
• and
• wherein the upholstered zone extends laterally of the tacking seams into the respective side areas.