Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

Mark A Oleszko

Graham Thornton Spencer

Joseph John Zwolinski

John Paul Sparkman

Timothy W Hill

Mladen Humer

Hassan Anahid

Liwen Xu

Yibing Dong

Darryl Marbury

Kenneth A Gassman

Richard S Draganski

Angelika J Coyle

Adaptive seating comfort control automatically senses occupation of a seat, estimates attributes of the seat occupant, and generates and issues seating comfort control commands in response to the occupant attributes to provide for maximum seating comfort and to provide for a desired interaction with other control systems. Comfort control commands take the form of desired pressure commands for at least one fluid filled bladder within the seat and may be updated periodically during a period of seat occupation to account for change in position of the seat occupant or to reduce occupant muscle fatigue.

Adaptive seating system

An air bag module includes an inflator for generating gas and an air bag coupled to the inflator and deployable upon generation of gas by the inflator. A pouch is made of a fabric material and serves as both the housing and cover of the module. The pouch has wall portions surrounding the air bag and inflator and defining a pouch interior containing the inflator and the air bag substantially therein such that the inflator and the air bag are housed within the pouch. The pouch also is provided with a frangible seam being breakable to form a pouch deployment opening. Upon air bag deployment, the air bag breaks open the frangible seam of the pouch to permit deployment of the air bag out through the pouch deployment opening such that the pouch guides the air bag during deployment.

Air bag module

A recliner arrangement for a vehicle seat is provided which, in a preferred embodiment, includes a seat cushion unit, a seat backrest unit pivotally connected to the seat cushion unit, a linear recliner for selectively adjusting the pivotal location of the backrest unit, and an energy absorber interposed between the linear recliner and the seat backrest unit, the energy absorber being operative upon a predetermined magnitude of force exerted thereon.

Seat bellows energy absorber

A foam mold equipped with a self-cleaning mold vent assembly constructed of a rigid apertured plate member and a sacrificial filter member for molding a unitary foamed article.

Foam mold equipped with a self-cleaning mold vent assembly

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Warren, MI, United States of America

Mark A Oleszko