Safran Seats USA LLC

Zodiac Seats France

Style & Design Group

Laurent Stritter

Jean-Marc Obadia

Charles Ehrmann

Kevin M Waters

Nahum Madrid

Brian Andrew Simone

Oscar Ruiz

Jean-Christophe Gaudeau

Romain Chareyre

Pierrick Henri

A communication system for a vehicle seat includes a visual indicator having a lighting mechanism configured to display a plurality of colors, a control portion electrically connected to the visual indicator, and a plurality of modes. Each mode may be associated with one of the plurality of Selection of one of the plurality of modes causes the control portion to signal the lighting mechanism to display the color associated with the selected mode.

Passenger communication system

Described are seat units with a seat pan () coupled to a seat back (), inflatable cushions () positioned proximate the seat pan and/or the seat back, inflatable airbags () positioned proximate the inflatable cushions (), and a pressure sensor () positioned over at least one of the seat pan () and the seat back () so that the inflatable cushions () and the inflatable airbags () are substantially covered by the pressure sensor (). The pressure sensor () is configured to generate a pressure map, and a control unit () is configured to analyze the pressure map for at least one pressure irregularity within a pressure distribution, and adjust a pressure inside at least one of the inflatable cushions () and/or the inflatable airbags () to minimize the pressure irregularity within the pressure distribution.

Self-adjusting vehicle seat

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Elancourt, France

Laurent Stritter