Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.

Basf Se Corporation

Flex-n-gate Advanced Product Development, LLC

John Salvia

Vikas Bhatia

Gregory Todd Donovan

Patrick J Edgar

Shelby Leigh Brown

Todd Muck

Matthew Frank Parkinson

Steven Perucca

Yi-Ru Chen Sosnowski

Edward Qiu

Jacob C Herget

Robert Jones

Jacob A Herget

A seat back assembly including a pultrusion reinforcement and a seat back frame formed of a resin material, the seat back frame is only partially overmolded onto the pultrusion reinforcement such that the pultrusion reinforcement is configured to be visually inspected through a plurality of openings formed in the seat back frame.

Seat back frame assemblies and seat assemblies including pultrusion reinforcements

A seat cushion, for a seat assembly, includes a seat cushion frame formed of a resin material. The seat cushion frame includes a base wall, a pair of side walls, and a front wall. The base wall includes a pair of side edges and a front edge that extends between the pair of side edges. The pair of side walls extend outward from the pair of side edges of the base wall. The front wall extends outwardly from the front edge of the base wall. The front wall configured to provide an anti-submarining feature.

Resin tip-up seat cushion frames and seat assemblies having resin tip-up seat cushion frames

A seat assembly, for a vehicle having a frame member, includes a seat back, a seat cushion, and a seat bracket. The frame member extends along a floor of the vehicle and includes a bore. The seat cushion is pivotally coupled to the seat back for movement between a use position and a raised position. The seat bracket is coupled to at least one of the seat back and the seat cushion. The seat bracket includes a pin that extends downwardly in a vehicle vertical direction. The pin engages with the bore to temporarily attach the seat cushion and the seat back to the frame member on the floor of the vehicle and inhibit a rotation of the seat assembly in a vehicle forward direction when the seat cushion is in the raised position due to the engagement of the pin extending through the bore of the frame member.

Seat assemblies for temporarily attaching a seat assembly to a vehicle

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