Motor vehicle seat with occupant weight detection system

• US 20050099041A1
• Filed: 11/02/2004
• Published: 05/12/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/11/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Burckhard Becker, Michael Weber, Oliver Waschnweski
• Original Assignee: Burckhard Becker, Michael Weber, Oliver Waschnweski
• Inventors: Waschnweski, Oliver, Becker, Burckhard, Weber, Michael
• Application Number:
  US10/979,557
• Publication Number:
  US 20050099041A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 297/217.2
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/002 Seats provided with an occupancy detection means mounted therein or thereon detection means responsive to presence or absence of children B60N2/266
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/045 Longitudinal adjustment by means of articulated rods supporting the seat, e.g. parallelogram mechanisms B60N2/38 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/06 slidable B60N2/12 , B60N2/2209 take precedence

Abstract

A motor vehicle seat with an occupant weight detection system is provided, said motor vehicle seat having an underframe that includes a lengthwise adjustment device with two pairs of rails each having a floor profile and a seat profile, a seat pan carried on the underframe a backrest, and, between the seat pan and the two seat profiles, there are provided weight sensors that are disposed vertically and detect all weight forces exerted from the seat pan downward.

Claims

1. A motor vehicle seat with an occupant weight detection system, comprising:

an underframe that comprises a lengthwise adjustment device with two pairs of rails each comprising a floor profile and a seat profile, a seat pan carried on said underframe and a backrest, wherein between said seat pan and said two seat profiles, there are provided weight sensors that are disposed vertically and detect all of the weight forces exerted from the seat pan downward.

2. The motor vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein the weight sensors are connected directly to the seat pan.

3. The motor vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein the weight sensors connect directly to the seat profile.

4. The motor vehicle seat according to claim 15, wherein the two seat profiles are connected to a remainder portion of the underframe, the floor profiles excepted, through solely four of the weight sensors.

5. The motor vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein each seat profile is connected directly or indirectly to the seat pan through two of the weight sensors solely.

6. The motor vehicle seat according to claim 1, further comprising:

at least one tie bar that connects the seat profiles of the two pairs of rails, the tie bar is connected directly or indirectly to the seat pan through solely at least one of the weight sensors.

7. The motor vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein the underframe comprises a height-adjustment device including a left part and a right part, the seat further comprising at least one carrier member for joining the left part and the right part of the height-adjustment device together said carrier member being connected to the seat pan through at least one of the weight sensors.

8. The motor vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein the underframe comprises a height-adjustment device including a left part and a right part, said left part and said right part of the height-adjustment device respectively comprise one side part each each side part being connected to at least one of the weight sensors.

9. The motor vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein the backrest is directly or indirectly connected to the seat profiles and the connection between backrest and seat profiles is solely performed through the weight sensors.

10. The motor vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein the weight sensors comprises a sensor body and two securement regions.

11. The motor vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein the sensor body comprises at least one semiconductor sensor element.

12. The motor vehicle seat according to claim 1, further comprising a padding located on the seat pan wherein the seat pan substantially extends over the surface of a seat part of a motor vehicle seat.

13. The motor vehicle seat according to claim 1, further comprising an evaluation circuit to which the weight sensors are connected wherein the evaluation circuit determines a total weight from weight signals delivered by the weight sensors.

14. The motor vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein the seat pan is connected to the underframe solely through four of the weight sensors.

15. The motor vehicle seat according to claim 3, wherein two of the weight sensors are respectively disposed on each of the two seat profiles.

16. The motor vehicle seat according to claim 6, further comprising two tie bars respectively connected to the seat pan through two of the weight sensors for each tie bar.

17. The motor vehicle seat according to claim 10, wherein the weight sensors further comprise bolts aligned along a same axis which protrude therefrom in opposing directions relative to one another.

18. The motor vehicle seat according to claim 11, wherein the sensor body comprises two semiconductor sensor elements, one sensor element being in a force path and the other sensor element being free of forces.