Johnson Controls Technology Company

Adient Engineering and IP Gmbh

Lucas P Porinsky

Yannis Poulos

Edward J Lamont

Miodrag Petrovich

William R Tighe

William M Huffman

Steven Livesey

Ryan Schilling

A vehicle seat assembly is provided including a back panel formed of an aluminum alloy material that is stamped to form an aluminum alloy stamped back panel. The aluminum alloy stamped back panel has a periphery and with fastening locations inwardly of the periphery. A backrest frame is provided comprising steel tubes. A plurality of fastening connections fix the back panel to the backrest frame at the fastening locations. A process is provided for forming a vehicle seat assembly including stamping an aluminum alloy sheet to form an aluminum alloy, stamped, back panel with a periphery and with fastening locations inwardly of the periphery, providing a backrest frame comprising steel tubes, providing a plurality of steel fasteners and fixing the aluminum alloy stamped back panel to the backrest frame with the fasteners at the fastening locations.

Rear seat backrest with lightweight aluminum back panel

A vehicle seating system includes a seat bottom chassis, and a seat back chassis coupled to the seat bottom chassis. The vehicle seating system also includes an easy entry mechanism configured to facilitate a rotation of the seat bottom chassis and the seat back chassis about a lateral axis of the vehicle seating system. The easy entry mechanism is also configured to maintain a substantially constant angle between the seat bottom chassis and the seat back chassis during the rotation.

Easy entry mechanism for vehicle seating

A track system () of the type used to adjust the position a supported element such as vehicular seat () includes a pair of base rails () that slidably interact with a respective pair of driven rails (). A transverse rail () is attached to each of the driven rails () so that the driven rails () slide together as a unit. A motor () is supported on the transverse rail () and includes a pair of drive shafts () emanating from either end. The drive shafts () carry on their distal ends' respective worm gears () which are contained within a transmission assembly (). The worm gears () mesh with external teeth on respective drive nuts () which interact with a lead screw () that can be oriented to either remain stationary relative to the base rails () or can be rotatably fixed within the driven rails (). The drive nut () is prevented from causing objectionable noise and premature wear in operation by the inclusion of one or two compressible washers ().

Transmission for motorized track system

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Dexter, MI, United States of America

Lucas P Porinsky