Magna Seating Inc

Alan Proulx

Timothy Jon Brush

Omar D Tame

Jeffrey P Carroll

Prasad D Jagtap

Robert Thomas Coffey

Rabindranath Persad

Nelson E Hurst

Lei Cao

Jerzy Dziedzic

Douglas A Dingel

Avery Folk

Brian Adwell

David A White

Abhishek Kedia

Umesh Prakash Handigol

Ravindra Thamake

Nathan A Jensen

Senthil Kumar Chinnadurai

Lyle Dadd

Gary Kopec

Whitney Jones

Tyler Bandurski

Rabindranth Persad

Timothy John Brush

Nelson E Iii Hurst

A seat is provided in which a seat cushion is pivotally coupled to a seat back by a recliner assembly. The recliner assembly is selectively operable between a locked condition preventing pivotal movement of the seat back and an unlocked condition allowing pivotal movement of the seat back. A riser assembly supports the seat assembly above a floor, such as the floor of a vehicle, and is configured for actuation and movement of the seat assembly between a generally upright seating position, a pitched easy entry position tilted forwardly and downwardly towards the floor to allow easier ingress and egress behind the seat, and a stowed position recessed within a compartment below the floor.

Stow-in-floor seat assembly with pitched easy entry position

A seat assembly is provided for supporting in an automotive vehicle. The seat assembly comprises a seat cushion and a seat back pivotally coupled to the seat cushion for movement between a reclined seating position and a fold flat position. A recliner assembly is coupled between the seat back and the seat cushion to provide pivotal movement of the seat back. A riser assembly is pivotally coupled to the seat cushion and pivotally latched to the floor to allow pivotal movement of the seat cushion between a horizontal seating position and a forwardly upright tumbled position. A release mechanism is coupled between the seat back and the riser assembly for automatically synchronizing actuation of the recliner assembly and the riser assembly to provide movement of the seat assembly to the tumbled position in response to the pivotal movement of the seat back to the fold flat position.

One touch stow in floor seat assembly with automatic lateral displacement

A flex shield operatively coupled to a seat assembly of an automotive vehicle for concealing a portion of the seat assembly. The flex shield comprising a flexible planar body portion extending laterally between a front edge and a rear edge and vertically between an upper edge and a lower edge. A plurality of elastic straps are fixedly secured to the body portion and adapted to be coupled to the seat assembly for maintaining tension on the flexible body portion. A plurality of pre-formed fold lines are formed in the body portion and extend between at least one of the front edge and rear edge for consistently controlling folding motion of the body portion between an unfolded position defining a generally planar body portion and a folded position wherein the body portion is collapsed along the fold lines.

Flex shield for seat assembly

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West Bloomfield, MI, United States of America

Alan Proulx