Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Arthur Beneventi

Murtatha Zalzala

Francisco Ronquillo

Byron L Brock

Cesar Adrian Davila Garcia

Daniel Jay Osterhoff

Raghavan Narayan Setlur

Derek Williams

A method of mounting a seat assembly to a vehicle, includes the steps of 1) providing a wire frame assembly having a side rail and engagement features; 2) overmolding a cushion support assembly to the wire frame assembly to form a seat portion assembly, wherein portions of the side rail and the engagement features are exposed; 3) mounting a trim panel to a seat frame within a vehicle interior; 4) mounting one or more support plates having receiving apertures to the seat frame; 5) vertically mounting the seat portion assembly to the trim panel by receiving the exposed portion of the side rail of the wire frame assembly within a clip member of the trim panel; and 6) vertically mounting the seat portion assembly to the support plates by receiving the exposed portions of the engagement features within the receiving apertures of the one or more support plates.

Top-loaded seat cushion system

A seat assembly includes a wire frame assembly having a support frame with at least one side rail and one or more engagement features. A cushion support assembly is overmolded to a portion of the wire frame assembly. The side rail of the wire frame assembly includes an exposed portion that is not covered by the cushion support assembly. The one or more engagement features of the wire frame assembly extend outwardly from a bottom surface of the cushion support assembly. A trim panel includes one or more clip members that releasably couple to the side rail of the wire frame assembly. At least one support plate includes receiving apertures disposed therethrough to receive the one or more engagement features of the wire frame assembly in a vertical manner.

A seating assembly includes a seatback frame having first and second pivot apertures defined on an inside surface of first and second side members, respectively, of the seatback frame. A seat includes a cushion assembly supported on a polymeric seat storage lid having a rear vertical wall and a forward lateral body. The forward lateral body is defined by a plurality of upwardly-opening support cells. First and second metal pivot pins extend from first and second sides of the rear vertical wall of the seat storage lid and engage such that a seat is operable between open and closed positions. A forward rounded hump is detachably coupled with a top surface of the seat storage lid. The forward rounded hump is configured to lessen the potential of an occupant to slide forward in the seat. A lock is operably coupled with the seat storage lid.

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Warren, MI, United States of America

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