Safety device for a motor vehicle seat

US7100992B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Daimlerchrysler AG · US

Inventors

• Claudio Bargheer · Stuttgart, DE
• Roland Beisswenger · Schwäbisch Gmünd, DE
• Dirk Benthaus · Eppelheim, DE
• Michael Eichler · Aalen, DE
• Thomas Foelster · Grafenau, DE
• Alexander Koblischke · Kaiserslautern, DE
• Uwe Nagel · Karlsruhe, DE
• Kai-Thorsten Schmiedl · Altdorf, DE
• Ulrich Tschaeschke · Ehningen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 30, 2002
• Grant date: Sep 5, 2006
• Expiry date: Jul 30, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60N2002/5808
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In order a safety device for a motor vehicle seat having a seat cushion part and a backrest, the backrest having a frame, a backrest cover, which faces rearward as seen in the direction of travel, and padding which faces forward, as seen in the direction of travel, and an airbag module is integrated into the backrest, said airbag module being arranged in that region of the backrest which faces the side wall structure of the motor vehicle in such a manner that an airbag is deployed when there is an impact between a driver and the side wall of the motor vehicle, said safety device ensuring a reliable and reproducible emergence of the airbag, it is proposed to arrange the airbag module to the rear of the backrest frame, when looking from the side wall of the motor vehicle.