Air-Conditioned Seat with Trenches and Tensioning Device Therefore

• US 20110115276A1
• Filed: 11/12/2007
• Published: 05/19/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Wet Automotive Systems AG (Gentherm Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Wet Automotive Systems AG (Gentherm Incorporated)
• Inventors: Glaser, Enrico
• Application Number:
  US12/446,010
• Publication Number:
  US 20110115276A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 297/452.42
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/5642 with circulation of air through a layer inside the seat
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/5657 blown towards the seat surface
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/5825 by hooks, staples, clips, snap fasteners or the like
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/23 Bedclothes holders

Abstract

This invention relates to a tensioning device (40) for pulling a cover (18) of an interior fitting (1100), particularly a seat (1110), into a trench (27′).

The invention provides for the tensioning device (40) to have at least one tension-transmission device (28) for transmitting tensile forces between the interior of the seat (1110) and the cover (18), at least one anchorage device (29) for fastening the cover (18) directly or indirectly to a cushion and/or the seat (1110), at least one stiffening element (9) for distributing tensile forces of the tension-transmission device (28) uniformly along the pulled-down cover (18), and/or a pressure-distribution device (33) to prevent a concentration of pressure caused by the tensioning device (40) on the functional elements (1) within the seat.

Claims

1-5. -5. (canceled)

6. A tensioning device for pulling a cover of an interior fitting into a trench, characterized in that the tensioning device has at least one tension-transmission device for transmitting tensile forces between the interior of the interior fitting and the cover, at least one anchorage device for fastening the cover directly or indirectly to a cushion, at least one stiffening element for distributing tensile forces of the tension-transmission device uniformly along the pulled-down cover, and/or a pressure-distribution device to prevent a concentration of pressure caused by the tensioning device.

7. The tensioning device of claim 6, the interior fitting includes at least one cushion with at least one cover and which has at least two air-conditioned zones at a surface that faces toward a user, between which zones at least one longish recess is provided into which the cover is at least partially pulled.

8. The tensioning device of claim 7, wherein the interior fitting comprises a seat, characterized in that the seat has at least one tensioning device to pull at least part of the cover into the recess such that the at least one recess is spanned by an air-ducting means despite the cover.