AUTOMOBILE REAR SEAT AND INTERIOR SIDE PANEL ASSEMBLY

• US 3,632,157 A
• Filed: 09/04/1969
• Issued: 01/04/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 09/04/1969
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Thomas E. Lohr
• Original Assignee: Thomas E. Lohr
• Inventors: Lohr, Thomas E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Friaglia, Leo
• Assistant Examiner(s): Paperner, Leslie J.
• Application Number:
  US04/855,195
• Time in Patent Office: 852 Days
• Field of Search: 296/28,31P,63,64 297/232,117,DIG.2,440,450
• US Class Current: 296/191
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/012 The seat support being a part of the vehicle body or chassis

Abstract

An automobile rear seat and interior side panel assembly including a unitary seat-supporting member of rigid urethane foam having a pair of seat walls formed therein and separated by an integral central divider. One-piece interior side panels are provided on each side of the seat-supporting member of rigid urethane foam, and an elastomeric urethane foam seat is received in each seat well.

Claims

1. An automobile rear seat assembly comprising:

a one-piece molded plastic seat support, said seat support having a seat bottom supporting portion and a seat back supporting portion;

said seat back supporting portion having a pair of outer sidewalls projecting forwardly from the outer edges of said seat back supporting portion, and said seat bottom supporting portion having a pair of outer sidewalls projecting upwardly from the outer edges of said seat bottom supporting portion and extending forwardly from the lower ends of the outer sidewalls of said seat back supporting portion, and an upwardly projecting front wall extending between said upwardly projecting outer sidewalls;

a central divider including an upright portion, having inclined side surfaces that extend rearwardly and outwardly to said back portion, projecting forwardly from said back supporting portion, and a horizontally raised portion, formed with inclined side surfaces that extend downwardly and outwardly, on said bottom supporting portion extending forwardly from the lower end of said portion, said divider cooperating with said outer sidewalls to define a pair of seat wells;

each of said seat wells including a back wall portion extending between said upright divider portion and the associated outer sidewall of said back supporting portion, and a bottom wall portion extending between said horizontal raised portion and the associated outer side wall of said bottom supporting portion;

a top ledge portion extending rearwardly from the upper edge of said back supporting portion; and

a pair of one-piece molded plastic interior side panels, each of said side panels having an upright attachment flange secured to one outer sidewall of said seat back supporting portion and a forwardly extending attachment flange secured to the adjacent outer sidewall of said seat supporting portion.

2. An automobile rear seat assembly as claimed in claim 1 wherein each side panel is curved outwardly and forwardly from said upright attachment flange, and is formed with an outwardly extending offset portion defining an armrest ledge, and an inwardly extending projection having a top surface extending downwardly and inwardly to the upper edge of said forwardly extending attachment flange.

3. An automobile rear seat assembly as claimed in claim 2 including a rearwardly and outwardly projecting top ledge on each side panel forming extensions of the top ledge portion of said seat back supporting portion.

4. An automobile rear seat assembly as claimed in claim 3 including a recess formed in each of said inwardly extending projections, each recess having a seatbelt-receiving opening formed therein.

5. An automobile rear seat assembly as claimed in claim 4 including a sail panel projecting upwardly from the top ledge of each side panel adapted to extend between the rear and side window opening of an automobile.

6. An automobile rear seat assembly as claimed in claim 5 wherein said seat support and side panels are of rigid urethane foam.

7. An automobile rear seat assembly as claimed in claim 6 further including a seat received in each of said seat wells, each seat having a back portion seated against the backwall portion of its associated well, and a bottom portion seated against the bottom wall portion of its associated well.

8. An automobile rear seat assembly as claimed in claim 7 wherein each of said seats is of elastomeric urethane foam.