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Atwood Industries, Inc.

Vehicle Safety Systems, Inc.

Ervin Robert Pilarczyk

Larry E Gray

Paul Barbee

William L Allan

Erwin S McQueen, Ii

A digital-video-disc vehicle television has a thin ceiling-mountable TV housing ( ) having a front edge ( ) from which a preferably flat TV screen ( ) pivots adjustably downward from a stowage space ( ) and having a rear edge ( ) with a digital video disc (DVD) slot ( ). The TV housing is preferably oval-shaped with a major length of about fifteen inches and a major width of about eight inches. Thickness is about one-to-three inches, depending on type and plurality of components it uses. Intermediate the stowage space and the DVD slot are dome lights ( ) that preferably are adjustable for reading and a rearward-facing control panel ( ) that preferably has pushbutton control and is backlit. Audiovisual signaling ( ) is received selectively from remote or in-vehicle broadcasting sources and from the DVD player ( ) and transmitted to a speaker ( ) and to the TV screen as controlled by a control unit ( ). An FM transmitter ( ) is employed to enhance sound received from audio characteristics of the audiovisual signaling and transmitted to the speaker.

Digital video disc vehicle television

A fold-down seat frame for a motor vehicle is provided. The seat includes a seat bottom disposed in a predominantly horizontal position and a seat back adapted for movement between a predominantly vertical seating position and a predominantly horizontal reclined position. The seat back and seat bottom share an adjacent edge that forms a vertex between the two. An auxiliary section is adapted for movement between a seated position and a reclined position. When in the seated position, the auxiliary section is located substantially below the seat bottom, and when in the reclined position, the auxiliary section is interposed between the seat back and seat bottom and aligned in substantially horizontal fashion therewith. A hinging assembly interconnects the seat back, and the seat bottom, and the auxiliary section and operates to controllably and concertedly move the seat back, the seat bottom, and auxiliary section between the seated and reclined positions.

Fold-down seat for a motor vehicle

A device for automatically positioning a shoulder harness of a vehicle retractable seat belt for maximum fit and comfort of a vehicle occupant regardless of the body size of the occupant, and including a shoulder harness positioning guide for automatically positioning the shoulder harness of the safety belt over the torso of a seat occupant, wherein the guide is provided adjacent the retractor mechanism and provides at least a convex guide surface over which the shoulder harness is fed out during deployment, the convex guide surface being wider than the width of the safety belt webbing, the convex guide surface having an upper end and a lower end, such that during deployment of the safety belt the movement of the safety belt tongue plate over a lower path causes the shoulder harness to be deployed from the lower end of the convex guide surface, and movement of the safety belt tongue plate over a higher path causes the shoulder harness to be deployed from the upper end of the convex guide surface.

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Ocala, FL, United States of America

Ervin Robert Pilarczyk