Lear Corporation

Keith Hensley

Wee Tzee Gam

Neil G Goodbred

Michael W Moran

Sunil K Gupte

Daryl Adams

Keith McCullen

Tony Centi

Randy Gage

A seat track assembly having a first track member and a second track member that defines a first recess. A single slide member is disposed between the first and second track members. The slide member additionally has an integral flange extending therefrom wherein the flange is adapted to engage the first recess for fixing the slide member relative to the second track member. The sliding member has a contact surface engaging the second track member and a sliding surface in sliding engagement with the first track member.

Seat track assembly

A method of manufacturing a seat back includes placing a steel support structure within a mold and blow-molding a hollow plastic body onto the steel support structure to form a seat back with the steel support structure integrally supported within the body. The steel support structure may be a hollow, U-shaped steel tube having first and second attachment features at distal ends thereof for attachment to a lower seat structure.

Integral blow-molded, steel reinforced automotive seating structure

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Farmington Hills, MI, United States of America

Keith Hensley