Chairs and seats – Crash seat – Force-absorbing means incorporated into back
Patent
1998-12-18
2000-08-29
Barfield, Anthony D.
Chairs and seats
Crash seat
Force-absorbing means incorporated into back
29737811, 29721614, B60N 242
Patent
active
061096903
ABSTRACT:
A vehicle seat assembly having a seat back which pivots during a rear impact vehicle collision in Such a manner that the upper end of the seat back rotates foreword. The pivoting seat back includes a releasable latch mechanism to hold the seat back frame fixed in a predetermined position about a pivot axis. The latch mechanism is releasable by inertia forces in response to a rear vehicle collision, to release the latch member and free the seat back frame for rotation about the pivot axis.
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Dietze, Sr. Robert H.
Flannery John J.
Healy Robert M.
Lindberg Jeffrey A.
Pattok Mark A.
Barfield Anthony D.
Johnson Controls Technology Company
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