Faurecia Automotive Seating, LLC

Faurecia Autositze Gmbh & Co. Kg

Martin Graeper

Meinhard Behrens

Emil Rdzanek

Uwe Lindenberg

Ingo Lampke

A passenger support apparatus includes a vehicle seat equipped with an easy-entry unit configured to provide easier passenger ingress and egress to an area behind the vehicle seat. The vehicle seat includes a seat bottom with front and rear portions and a seat back extending from the seat bottom. The easy-entry unit includes the seat back and the rear portion of the seat bottom and pivots about a pivot axis between an occupant use position and an access position. A cover assembly is coupled to the vehicle seat and expands and retracts between a stored configuration and a deployed configuration to limit access to an underside of the seat bottom whether the easy-entry unit is in the occupant use position, the access position, or an intermediate position. The vehicle seat can also be configured to slide along a seat support frame between forward and rearward positions.

Easy-entry vehicle seat with cover assembly

A headrest for use with a seat back, preferably for a rear seat of an automobile, having a mount operatively attached to the seat back and a headrest pivotably mounted so that it may pivot or swivel forward about a swivel axis. In a use position, a spring places pressure or a load on the headrest, and may be engaged or locked against folding forward because of the spring. When the headrest is lowered below a minimum heigth, the headrest is automatically unlocked or disengaged, and the headrest moves forward generally perpendicular with the seatback under the force of the spring. The mount is adjustable in height, and the headrest is automatically released from the engaged or locked position when the headrest is lowered below a minimum height.

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Hannover, Germany

Martin Graeper