Vehicle seat having improved performance of reducing whiplash injury
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
InventorsDoo Ri Kim, Gil Ju Kim, Seon Chae Na, Chan Ho Jeong, Jung Sang You
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Abstract
A vehicle seat may include a protrusion member installed to a lower portion of a back frame inside a seatback to protrude forward and to absorb an impact on the hips of an occupant upon a vehicle collision, wherein a lower portion of the seatback, which has a protrusion shape due to the protrusion member, induces a sitting posture of the occupant to be modified when the occupant sits down on the vehicle seat, thereby reducing a gap between a head of the occupant and a headrest in a state that the hips of the occupant moves forward.
Claims14
A vehicle seat comprising:
- a protrusion member installed to a lower portion of a back frame inside a seatback to protrude forward and to absorb an impact on hips of an occupant upon a vehicle collision,
- wherein a support member extending upwardly from a top of the protrusion member and inclined rearward of the seatback, and
- wherein a lower portion of the seatback, having a protrusion shape due to the protrusion member, induces a sitting posture of the occupant to be modified such that the hips of the occupant is guided forward by the protrusion member from the seatback and a head of the occupant is guided rearward of the seatback by the protrusion member when the occupant sits down on the vehicle seat, thereby reducing a gap between the head of the occupant and a headrest in a state that the hips of the occupant moves forward.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.