Easy ejector seat with skeletal crash safety beam
First Claim
1. (I) A multi element contoured seat comprising anatomically accurate support for the human body comprising:
- a) a shadow spine pivotally connected in the region of its lower end, to the support members of the passenger support mechanism along a lateral axis, to allow controlled motion about this axis, and constructed with a plurality of vertebrae that have one or more of force deflection and compression parameters designed to allow approximately propotionally smaller deflection or compression of each local area of the lumbar and thoractic regions under acceleration or gravitational forces, as compared to said deflection or compression without said shadow spine, said shadow spine having appendages connected to one or more of said vertebrae, and directly or indirectly in contact with each local area of one or more of the thorax, lumbar regions, head and neck of the human body;
b) Means for adjusting the length of said shadow spine and the orientation of said appendages to said shadow spine to customize the multi-element contoured seat to a rangeof users.
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Abstract
An arrangement in passenger vehicles, that diverts the impact energy in impacts away from the passengers to the remaining mass of the vehicle thereby protecting the passengers, and in the same arrangement provides utilitarian access to the vehicle, such utilitarian access making it possible to both install multi-element contoured surround seats for passengers and the driver, and also a safety device for head-on collision protection that obviates the need for conventional seat belts and front impact airbags. An indo-skeletal structural arrangement proposed for the vehicle, provides further benefits by targeting the strength of the vehicle to protect passengers while minimizing other massive elements in the vehicle.
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17 Claims
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1. (I) A multi element contoured seat comprising anatomically accurate support for the human body comprising:
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a) a shadow spine pivotally connected in the region of its lower end, to the support members of the passenger support mechanism along a lateral axis, to allow controlled motion about this axis, and constructed with a plurality of vertebrae that have one or more of force deflection and compression parameters designed to allow approximately propotionally smaller deflection or compression of each local area of the lumbar and thoractic regions under acceleration or gravitational forces, as compared to said deflection or compression without said shadow spine, said shadow spine having appendages connected to one or more of said vertebrae, and directly or indirectly in contact with each local area of one or more of the thorax, lumbar regions, head and neck of the human body;
b) Means for adjusting the length of said shadow spine and the orientation of said appendages to said shadow spine to customize the multi-element contoured seat to a rangeof users. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17)
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14. (I) A method for providing support for the human body in a sitting or reclining position comprising:
Providing support for the thorax and lumbar regions such that supportive resistive forces supplement and enhance the supportive resistive forces of the human skeletal structure comprising the spine and the ribs and muscular attachments thereof, such supplementary supportive resistive forces being designed to conterract external forces on the mass of the lumbar regions and the thorax that comprise forces resulting from gravitiational attraction and the acceleration of the human body at any time, and ensuring that, under said external forces, with said supplementary supportive resistive forces deflections of each local area of the lumbar and thoractic regions are similar to deflections of the same local areas without said method under a lower acceleration of the human body.
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15. (I) A method for providing differential shock absorbtion for elements of the human body body in a vertical direction along one or more of the lumbar region, the thorax, the neck and head for passengers in a vehicle.
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16. (I) A multi element contoured seat comprising anatomically accurate support for the human body comprising elements for local support for one or more of the sides of the hips and the pelvis, said elements being controllable for position and orientation with regard to the passenger in said multi-element contoured seat.
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