Chairs and seats – Bottom or back – Rigid or semirigid hollow shell
Reexamination Certificate
2006-11-21
2006-11-21
White, Rodney B. (Department: 3636)
Chairs and seats
Bottom or back
Rigid or semirigid hollow shell
C297S378120, C297S378130, C297S232000, C297S233000, C297S452140, C297S452180, C297S452200, C297SDIG010
Reexamination Certificate
active
07137670
ABSTRACT:
An improved seating system that includes a seat back assembly (10) that is fabricated to include a seat back (12) with first and second wall portions (14,16), and which may include an integrated reinforcement structure (18). The seating system is capable of either or both of withstanding without rupture at least about 11000 Newtons in the direction in which the seat back (12) faces in a plane, parallel to the longitudinal centerline of the vehicle or, upon rapid acceleration up to at least about 20 g, substantially no fragmentation of the seat back with at least a 30 kg mass placed behind the seat back.
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Gupta Vikas
Heckert Mick F.
Korchnak Gregory J.
Kurtycz Eric R.
Palmieri Jane M.
Dobrusin & Thennisch PC
Dow Global Technologies Inc.
White Rodney B.
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