Land vehicles: bodies and tops – Bodies – Seats with body modifications
Patent
1998-08-31
2000-04-04
Pape, Joseph D.
Land vehicles: bodies and tops
Bodies
Seats with body modifications
296 681, 296204, B60N 200
Patent
active
060451742
ABSTRACT:
A seat support assembly for an automotive vehicle with a seat having integrated occupant restraints has forward and rearward transversely extending seat support members each having opposed ends with a seat attachment section and an attachment flange. A pair of seat reinforcement members are positioned adjacent and underside of the attachment section on each of the opposed ends of the forward and rearward seat support members, each of the pair seat support reinforcements members having a mating flange adapted for mating between the attachment flange and a portion of the vehicle floor pan. A floor pan reinforcement member is adapted for mating with an underside of the floor pan and has a support flange wrapping around an outer side adjacent the mating flange and the attachment flange. The seat is connected by seat brackets to the seat attachment sections of the seat support members via a bolt and bolt sleeve combination which maintains the seat support member in spaced relationship with the floor pan and provides increased load absorption from the seat.
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Bharathan Kalyanaraman
Brancaleone Robert Anthony
Ford Global Technologies Inc.
Kelly David B.
Pape Joseph D.
Patel Kiran
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