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US 8,539,661 B2Granted
Frame for a vehicle seat
AssigneeJohnson Controls GmbH
InventorsBernd Gross, Andreas Dannheisig, Marian Stepankowski, Joshua Hesterberg
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Abstract
The invention relates to a vehicle seat, in particular a motor vehicle seat, comprising a structural element that consists of several components which are at least partly connected to one another. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a method for producing the motor vehicle seat according to the invention.
Claims7
A process for producing a backrest frame for a motor vehicle seat, comprising:
- providing at least two side frame members and at least one cross member;
- connecting the cross member to each of the side frame members using an attachment technique at interfaces between connection regions at opposite ends of the cross member and a connection region at an edge of each of the side frame members;
- wherein at least one of the connection regions is configured for at least two different attachment techniques, whereby at least one of the members is attachable to another of the members using any of the at least two different attachment techniques, such that at least one of the members can be made of any one of at least two different materials, further comprising a step of removing a portion of one of the connection regions to increase an edge length for welding.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.