Mercedes-benz Aktiengesellschaft

Daimler Chrysler Ag

Hans-Juergen Schlaffke

Josef Klink

Emil Dinkel

Volker Speck

Armin Kienzle

Otto Hoelderlin

Dieter Hagedorn

A folding rear seat for vehicles, especially passenger vehicles and station wagons, includes a folding seat back and a height-adjustable neck support mounted on the seat back. The neck support is mounted on at least one support rod that supports a padded head rest and is held such that it can shift axially within a guide in the seat back. The head rest can be retracted from a temporary vertical position to a minimum possible distance between the padded head rest and the seat back in order to allow the seat back to be folded down. To ensure that the seat back can be folded down completely without removal of the neck support, and to ensure the automatic return of the neck support to a legally prescribed minimum vertical position for the padded head rest, the guide mechanism is formed by at least one guide sleeve that holds the support rod such that it can shift axially, and a spring element is positioned between the guide sleeve and the support rod, such that the spring is first tensed by the support rod when the vertical position of the neck support is reduced from the prescribed minimum vertical position for the padded head rest to the minimum possible distance, by force of pressure.

Folding rear seat for vehicles

A device for the stepless alteration of the seat depth of a seat cushion of a car seat, has a variable-pressure air cushion which is arranged, on the front side of the seat cushion, between a padded rest and a supporting surface. An extremely high degree of support is achieved if the air cushion is configured approximately in the form of a U and its legs, oriented in the direction of the rear edge of the seat cushion, bear on a side support which terminates towards the front side of the seat cushion and is formed by the extremely dimensionally stable supporting surface.

Seat cushion stepless alteration device

Backrests of a rear seat bench for an estate car which are asymmetrically divided in two can experience pronounced bending in the travel direction in the larger backrest part in the event of frontal impact. This bending can endanger the safety of people sitting on the rear seat bench. To prevent this, one energy absorber is arranged in the region of the at least two closure arrangements, between the frame of the larger backrest part and the housing profile.

Rear seat bench for an estate car

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Saulgau, Germany

Hans-Juergen Schlaffke