Pivoting seat back

US6109690A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Johnson Controls Technology Company · US

Inventors

• Wei-Pin Wu · Canton, US
• John J. Flannery · Madison Heights, US
• Robert H. Dietze, Sr. · Brighton, US
• Joseph P. Vitale · South Lyon, US
• Mark A. Pattok · Canton, US
• Jeffrey A. Lindberg · Southgate, US
• Robert M. Healy · Garden City, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 18, 1998
• Grant date: Aug 29, 2000
• Expiry date: Dec 18, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60N2/42745
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A vehicle seat assembly having a seat back which pivots during a rear impact vehicle collision in Such a manner that the upper end of the seat back rotates foreword. The pivoting seat back includes a releasable latch mechanism to hold the seat back frame fixed in a predetermined position about a pivot axis. The latch mechanism is releasable by inertia forces in response to a rear vehicle collision, to release the latch member and free the seat back frame for rotation about the pivot axis.