Motor vehicle seat arrangement having a side cheek movable between a rest position and an operating position

US5290084A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT · DE

Inventor

• Ruprecht Sinnhuber · Gifhorn, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 26, 1993
• Grant date: Mar 1, 1994
• Expiry date: Feb 26, 2013

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R2021/0006
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

To protect a vehicle occupant in a side collision without inconvenience to an occupant in getting in and out of the vehicle, a vehicle seat includes a side cheek member adjacent to a side wall of the vehicle and the outer surface of the side cheek member is arranged so that inward penetration of the side wall of the vehicle in a side collision will force the side cheek member in the direction of increasing penetration into the space between a vehicle occupant and the outside wall of the vehicle.