Vehicle seat having a footrest

US6773074B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Daimlerchrysler AG · US

Inventors

• Gerhard Flory · Annweiler am Trifels, DE
• Guenter Franzmann · Rockenhausen, DE
• Hermann Gaus · Stuttgart, DE
• Thomas Geisel · Rottenburg am Neckar, DE
• Klaus Hassler · Mehlbach, DE
• Christoph Jung · Munich, DE
• Rainer Leucht · Baltmannsweiler, DE
• Heiko Utsch · Hargesheim, DE
• Erik Weber · Vacaville, US
• Norman Windham · Winnweiler, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 4, 2003
• Grant date: Aug 10, 2004
• Expiry date: Mar 4, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60N2/995
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A vehicle seat includes a lower-leg support, transferable from a stowed position into a utilization position, and a footrest. To achieve comfortable support with easy operation, the footrest has a footplate that may be folded out and that is located in the stowed position approximately parallel, and in the utilization position approximately perpendicular, to the lower-leg support, and coacts with an energy storage device.