Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

Juan M Capo

Richard D Loose

Robert W Smith

Francis Nile Smith

Edward J Plesniarski

Gerald Lee Elson

James A Watson

Gregory J Cenzer

Elisabeth B Nevitt

Michael A Jones

Nancy M Simioni

Michael H Bates

A foldable motor vehicle seat including a horizontal seat cushion and a vertical seat back joined at a horizontal hinge for pivotal movement of the seat cushion from a horizontal position to a vertical position folded against the seat back. The seat back is connected to a side wall of a body of the motor vehicle for pivotal movement about a vertical axis between a seating position in a plane perpendicular to a longitudinal centerline of the motor vehicle and a cargo position in a plane parallel to the longitudinal centerline. With the seat cushion folded vertically against the seat back and the seat back in its cargo position, the floor of the motor vehicle under the seat is exposed for cargo. With the seat cushion horizontal and the seat back in its seating position, a passenger may sit on the foldable seat. A strut pivotally supported on the seat cushion has a raised position against a side of the seat cushion and a lowered position when the seat cushion is horizontal defining a vertical brace between the seat cushion and the floor. A latch releasably secures the strut to the floor of the motor vehicle.

Seat for motor vehicle

A seat belt guide loop is comprised of a stamped metal bracket having an aperture adapted to receive a bolt for pivotally mounting the guide loop on a vehicle body pillar. The stamped metal bracket has a belt slot therein of a width somewhat greater than the width of the belt and a height greater than the thickness of the belt. A molded plastic cover is molded in situ upon the stamped metal bracket and overlies the lower wall of the belt slot to define a low friction wall over which the belt is slidable. This plastic cover has a clearance slot which underlies the low friction wall and cooperates therewith to define a plastic bridge integral with and supporting the low friction wall. The clearance slot is of a width somewhat less than the width of the belt. When the belt is loaded during the restraint of an occupant, the plastic bridge elastically yields whereby the low friction wall bows into a curvilinear sagging configuration by which the belt is induced to remain in the center of the belt slot against any tendency to migrate to a bunched up condition at one end of the belt slot.

Seat belt guide loop

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Rochester Hills, MI, United States of America

Juan M Capo