Faurecia Automotive Seating, LLC

Porter Group, LLC

Michael P Miller

Thomas J Cooley

Michael A Blake

Brent C Everett

Gregory Miller

Donald A Sharnowski

Venugopala C Mittapalli

Grzegorz Wojtowicz

Zenon Jakubowicz

Brian P Baibak

Craig S Smith

Angelo D DiCicco

An occupant support includes a seat bottom and a seat back coupled to the seat bottom and arranged to extend upwardly away from the seat bottom in a normal-seating configuration. The seat back is pivotable relative to the seat bottom between a plurality of positions. The seat back may be changed from an upright position to a folded-forward position.

Occupant support

A passenger support includes a vehicle seat and a foundation frame having a lower track and an upper track. The lower track is coupled to a floor of a vehicle in a fixed position relative the floor. The vehicle seat is coupled to the upper track to slide back and forth relative to the lower track.

Passenger support

A seatback-motion controller in accordance with the present disclosure is mounted on a vehicle seat in a vehicle. The vehicle seat includes a seat base and a seat back mounted for pivotable movement relative to the seat base between an upright use position and a forward-leaning easy-entry position.

Easy-entry seat-back release system for vehicle seat

A passenger support includes a vehicle seat and an easy-entry motion controller. The vehicle seat is moveable between a passenger-use configuration and an easy-entry configuration. The easy-entry motion controller controls movement of the vehicle seat between the passenger-use configuration and the easy-entry configuration, including movement of a seat back between an occupant-use position and a tilted-forward position, movement of a seat bottom between an occupant-use position and a folded-up position, and movement of a seat base between a rearward position and a forward position. The passenger support thus provides enhanced access to other areas of the vehicle, such as passenger supports located therebehind.

Easy-entry vehicle seat

A vehicle seat latch () includes a latch member () and a blocking member () that each have associated first and second blocking surfaces (and) for holding the latch member in a latched position with the blocking member in a blocking position. The first blocking surfaces (and) of the latch member and blocking member have a pressure angle between 4.6 and 6.6 degrees while the second blocking surfaces (and) have a zero degree pressure angle and are slightly spaced from each other. A deformable blocking portion () of the blocking member () defines its first blocking surface () and is deformed by excessive loading so that the zero degree pressure angle second blocking surfaces (and) then contact each other to hold the latch member in its latched position.

Vehicle seat latch

A vehicle seat cushion front latch assembly () includes an attachment latch () for providing attachment to an associated vehicle and includes a support bracket () whose pivotal positioning about a latch plate () is controlled by a blocking member () prevents movement of the attachment latch () to an unlatched condition when the support bracket () is moved a predetermined extent from its use position toward a storage position.

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South Lyon, MI, United States of America

Michael P Miller