Frame for a motor vehicle seat cushion

• US 9,079,516 B2
• Filed: 12/29/2011
• Issued: 07/14/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Faurecia Sieges D'Automobile (Stellantis NV)
• Original Assignee: Faurecia Sieges D'Automobile (Stellantis NV)
• Inventors: Duboulet, Claude, Petit, Jean-Nol, Courtois, Patrice, Bouzid, Farouk
• Primary Examiner(s): BROWN, PETER R
• Application Number:
  US13/339,623
• Publication Number:
  US 20120169095A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,293 Days
• Field of Search: 297/188.1, 297/188.09, 297/188.21, 297/335, 297/331, 297/188.02, 297/188.08, 297/188.2
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/305 the cushion being hinged on the vehicle frame
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 5/006 stowing or holding means for elongated articles, e.g. skis inside vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 7/043 mounted on or under a seat

Abstract

A cushion structure for a motor vehicle seat including a retractable stop piece capable of preventing an object placed under the cushion from moving towards the front, and means capable of arranging said cushion in a position preventing a passenger from sitting on it.

Claims

1. A cushion structure for a motor vehicle seat, comprising:

rotatable means having a first position in which a cushion, operatively connected to the rotatable means, is positioned to permit a passenger to sit on the cushion, and further having a second position in which the cushion is positioned to prevent the passenger from sitting on the cushion; and

a stop piece operatively connected to the rotatable means to be in an approximately vertical position when the rotatable means is in the first position and to be in an approximately horizontal position when the rotatable means is in the second position,

wherein the stop piece, in the vertical position, prevents an object placed under the seat from moving in front of the seat,

and wherein the stop piece is substantially below a level of the cushion in both the vertical position and the horizontal position.

2. The cushion structure of claim 1, wherein the stop piece is an arch.

3. The cushion structure of claim 1, wherein the stop piece can pivot around a front crosspiece between the approximately vertical position and the approximately horizontal position.

4. The cushion structure of claim 1, wherein said rotatable means comprise a cam.

5. The cushion structure of claim 4, wherein the cam is attached to the stop piece and pivots along an axis collinear to a front crosspiece.

6. The cushion structure of claim 1, wherein said rotatable means comprise a cushion frame in approximately vertical position when the rotatable means is in the second position.

7. The cushion structure of claim 6, wherein the cushion frame and the stop piece pivot around an axis collinear to a front crosspiece.

8. A vehicle seat comprising the cushion structure of claim 1.

9. The cushion structure of claim 1, wherein rotation of the cushion causes movement of the stop piece, via said rotatable means, between the approximately horizontal position and the approximately vertical position and vice versa.