Chairs and seats – Bottom or back – Contoured bottom
Patent
1994-11-15
1996-09-10
Cuomo, Peter M.
Chairs and seats
Bottom or back
Contoured bottom
29745255, 297DIG1, A47C 718
Patent
active
055539246
ABSTRACT:
A vehicle safety seat system includes a contoured vehicle seat bottom and a foam layer disposed over the supporting vehicle seat bottom and supported by the supporting vehicle seat bottom. The foam layer has a rate sensitive compression characteristic. The rate sensitive compression characteristic is a compressive response to a slow application and a rigid response to a rapid application of force. To adapt an existing seat bucket to the desired configuration, a rigid foam layer may be molded within the supporting vehicle seat bottom. This rigid foam layer is contoured and disposed at an angle with respect to the horizontal. Seat belts having a pretensioner device are also provided. The pretensioner device is controlled according to both a frontal crash sensor and a vehicle-off ground control system to couple occupant to the seat bottom prior to a wheels first landing.
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Cantor Alan E.
D'Aulerio Louis A.
Eisentraut Donald K.
Muzzy, III William H.
Whitman Gary R.
Barfield Anthony D.
Cuomo Peter M.
The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama for its divis
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