Vehicle seat

• US 3,356,413 A
• Filed: 09/10/1965
• Issued: 12/05/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Arthur O. Radke, Garth O. Hall, Harvey N. Tengler
• Original Assignee: Arthur O. Radke, Garth O. Hall, Harvey N. Tengler
• Inventors: Radke, Arthur O., Tengler, Harvey N., Hall, Garth O.
• Application Number:
  US04/486,310
• Time in Patent Office: 816 Days
• US Class Current: 297/300.3
• 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 2/501 actively controlled suspension, e.g. electronic control
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/502 attached to the base of the seat B60N2/504 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/505 Adjustable suspension including height adjustment
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/506 Seat guided by rods
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/525 using gas

Claims

1. A SEAT COMPRISING:

A SEAT PART;

A BASE PART;

SPRING MEANS SUPPORTING SAID SEAT PART ON SAID BASE PART FOR BIASED TRAVEL IN RESPECT THERETO;

AND MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID SEAT PART TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE TRAVEL OF SAID SEAT PART TOWARD AND AWAY FROM SAID BASE PART TO A PREDETERMINED PATH IN WHICH SAID ENTIRE SEAT PART MOVES IN RESPECT TO SAID BASE PART, YET THE FRONT PORTION OF SAID SEAT PART MOVES AT A PREDETEMRINED SMALLER VELOCITY THAN THE BACK PORTION THEREOF TO THEREBY CAUSE SAID SEAT PART DURING SAID TRAVEL TO BE IN A LINE WITH A LINE WHICH WOULD GENERALLY PIVOT AROUND A POINT AHEAD OF THE FRONT EDGE OF SAID SEAT PART AND GENERALLY IN THE AREA OF THE KNEE POINT OF THE OCCUPANT OF THE SEAT.