Seat suspension device for a vehicle seat

• US 8,534,646 B2
• Filed: 07/07/2011
• Issued: 09/17/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/08/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Grammer AG (Ningbo Jifeng Auto Parts Co.,Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Grammer AG (Ningbo Jifeng Auto Parts Co.,Ltd.)
• Inventors: Haller, Nikolaus, Meier, Johann, Bauer, Rupert, Wittmann, Hubert
• Primary Examiner(s): Williams, Thomas J
• Application Number:
  US13/178,244
• Publication Number:
  US 20120007293A1
• Time in Patent Office: 803 Days
• Field of Search: 267/64.19, 267/64.21, 267/64.23, 267/64.24, 267/64.27, 267/117, 267/122, 267/131, 267/136, 267/64.28, 267/133, 248/550, 248/584, 248/588, 248/589
• US Class Current: 267/122
• 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 2/525 using gas
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/58 Seat coverings
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/6009 covering more than only the seat

Abstract

The invention relates to a seat suspension device for a vehicle seat, in particular a commercial vehicle seat, comprising at least one air spring, said air spring being disposed between an upper seat portion of the vehicle seat and a lower seat portion of the vehicle seat, and at least one hose-like member connected to the air spring via a first connection line for an extension volume of the air spring is provided, said hose-like member being arranged along at least one fold of a bellows-like facing extending between an upper seat portion and a lower seat portion of a vehicle seat.

Claims

1. A seat suspension device for a vehicle seat, in particular a commercial vehicle seat, comprising:

at least one air spring, said air spring being mounted between an upper seat portion of the vehicle seat and a lower seat portion of the vehicle seat;

at least one hose member connected to the air spring via a first connection line for an extension volume of the air spring, said hose member being arranged along at least one fold of a bellows facing extending between the upper seat portion and the lower seat portion of the vehicle seat; and

wherein a course of the fold is partially, preferably completely filled with said hose member.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first connection line includes a throttle element for adjusting a flow cross section in the first connection line.

3. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the hose member extends along a course of a web with the greatest web height, with the bellows facing including two folds orientated parallel to each other, wherein the folds are connected to each other via webs extending in the height direction.

4. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said hose member is annularly formed.

5. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the hose member has a circular or polygonal, preferably a quadrangular, cross section.

6. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the hose member is fixed to the bellows facing, and is preferably integrated into the bellows facing.

7. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the hose member is preferably made from plastic.

8. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein a valve for controlling the pressure in the air spring and/or in the hose member is mounted in the bellows facing between the upper seat portion and the lower seat portion of the vehicle seat.

9. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein an internal cross section of the first connection line is smaller at least in sections than an internal cross section of the hose member.

10. The device as claimed in claim 9, wherein a throttle element of the first connection line can be controlled by means of a control unit.

11. A seat suspension device for a vehicle seat, in particular a commercial vehicle seat, comprising:

at least one air spring, said air spring being mounted between an upper seat portion of the vehicle seat and a lower seat portion of the vehicle seat;

at least one hose member connected to the air spring via a first connection line for an extension volume of the air spring, said hose member being arranged along at least one fold of a bellows facing extending between the upper seat portion and the lower seat portion of the vehicle seat; and

wherein a means for increasing a pressure in the air spring and/or in the hose member is mounted in the bellows facing between the upper seat portion and the lower seat portion of the vehicle seat.