Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Seats with body modifications
Patent
1995-10-27
1998-08-04
Swinehart, Ed L.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Seats with body modifications
2485031, B60N 200
Patent
active
057883149
ABSTRACT:
An automotive vehicle seating system which in a preferred embodiment includes a rigid surface fixed with respect to the vehicle, the rigid surface having an aperture; a seating surface positioned generally adjacent the rigid surface, the seating surface having a frame, the frame having a portion generally formed as a loop extending into the aperture of the rigid surface; and a molded single-piece plastic retainer having two opposed walls, one of the walls having a lock ramp to aid in an interference fit within the aperture of the fixed surface and the retainer having on one of the opposing walls a collar and a lock ramp on another opposing wall to allow the opposing walls to be locked together and the retainer having a compliant locking finger interlocking into the loop of the seat frame to hold the seat in position within the vehicle.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4742984 (1988-05-01), Cote et al.
patent: 4822092 (1989-04-01), Sweers
Duchesneau Michel Louis
Hayes Clayton James
Laze Peter
Palomba Michele Rosario
General Motors Corporation
Griffin Patrick M.
Swinehart Ed L.
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