One-piece seat back structure

US9045068B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Johnson Controls Technology Company · US

Inventors

• Ornela Zekavica · Novi, US
• Phillip Wayne Wilson · Wixom, US
• Anthony Kestian · Cadillac, US
• Elizabeth Ann Allen · Ypsilanti, US
• Mark S. Williamson · Canton, US
• Joseph F. Prosniewski · Brownstown Township, US
• Catherine Marie Amodeo · Livonia, US
• Miodrag Mitch Petrovich · Ann Arbor, US
• Ronald G. Bedro · Plymouth, US
• Edward J. Lamont · Holland, US
• Michael J. Leighton · LaSalle, CA
• William S. Brewer · Plymouth, US
• David J. Hayes · Boynton Beach, US
• Robert J. Hicks · Canton, US
• Andrew J. Erard · Ceresco, US
• Michael G. Buss · Kalamazoo, US
• Mark A. Harris · Landenberg, US
• Alexander I. Balin · Ann Arbor, US
• Alex Saveski · South Lyon, US
• Eric B. Michalak · Canton, US
• Kurt A. Seiboid · Saginaw, US
• Daniel J. Sakkinen · Cadillac, US
• Nicholas L. Petouhoff · South Lyon, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 18, 2011
• Grant date: Jun 2, 2015
• Expiry date: Dec 6, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T29/49826
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A seat back structure includes a web extending about a central opening, and an inner flange extending about an inner perimeter of the web adjacent to the central opening. The seat back structure also includes an outer flange extending about an outer perimeter of the web. The inner flange, the outer flange and the web form a channel extending about the seat back structure, and the seat back structure is formed from a single piece of material.