VEHICLE SEAT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING AN UPHOLSTERED VEHICLE SEAT PART

• US 20130161998A1
• Filed: 12/17/2012
• Published: 06/27/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Grammer AG (Ningbo Jifeng Auto Parts Co.,Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Grammer AG (Ningbo Jifeng Auto Parts Co.,Ltd.)
• Inventors: UEBELACKER, Roland, HERBST, Gerald
• Granted Patent: US 9,381,839 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 297/452.1
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/58 Seat coverings
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/5891 characterised by the manufacturing process; manufacturing seat coverings not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/646 shape of the cushion
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/70 Upholstery springs ; Upholstery
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/481 Method

Abstract

The invention relates to a vehicle seat having a seat part, having a backrest part and having an upholstery part for upholstering the seat part, wherein the upholstery part comprises an upholstery part cover element, a carrier layer element for supporting the upholstery cover element, an upholstery core element, a main upholstery element and a barrier layer, and wherein the main upholstery element is spatially separated by the barrier layer from the carrier layer element, the upholstery core element and the upholstery part cover element, the barrier layer having a seamless barrier layer element, which is arranged continuously as a strip product directly on the main upholstery element.

Claims

1. A vehicle seat having a seat part, having a backrest part and having an upholstery part for upholstering the seat part, wherein the upholstery part comprises an upholstery part cover element, a carrier layer element for supporting the upholstery cover element, an upholstery core element, a main upholstery element and a barrier layer, and wherein the main upholstery element is spatially separated by the barrier layer from the carrier layer element, the upholstery core element and the upholstery part cover element, characterised in that the barrier layer has a seamless barrier layer element, which is arranged continuously as a strip product directly on the main upholstery element.

2. The vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein the barrier layer element is arranged spaced apart from the upholstery core element.

3. The vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein an upholstery part element, which is softer than the upholstery core element, is arranged between the barrier layer element and the upholstery core element.

4. The vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein the barrier layer element comprises a polyurethane film and, in particular, has a thickness of between 0.25 μ

m and 1.5 μ

m.

5. The vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein the upholstery core element is arranged embedded between the carrier layer element the upholstery part cover element.

6. The vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein the upholstery core element comprises a cut foam, a reticulated foam or a spacer fabric and, in particular, has a thickness of between 3 mm and 50 mm, preferably a thickness of between 15 mm and 25 mm and, ideally, a thickness of between 20 mm and 25 mm.

7. The vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein the carrier layer element comprises a laminating foam and, in particular, has a thickness of between 1 mm and 10 mm.

8. The vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein the upholstery part cover element, the carrier layer element and/or the upholstery core element are produced from a strip product.

9. A method for producing an upholstered vehicle seat upholstery, in which at least one upholstery cover element, one carrier layer element for supporting the upholstery cover element and one barrier layer element are connected to one another to form a material web, which can then be made up to form an upper unit of the upholstered vehicle seat part, characterised in that an upholstery core element, as a strip product, is at least partially embedded between the upholstery cover element and the carrier layer element.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein a main upholstery element, as a lower unit of the vehicle seat upholstery unit, is foamed onto the barrier layer element in such a way that the main upholstery element is arranged by means of the barrier layer element completely separately from all further upper unit elements on the upholstered vehicle seat part.