Johnson Controls Technology Company

Steven E White

Yannis Poulos

Eric Bernard Michalak

Reinier Soliven

John M Beranek

Frederick Wilkinson

Frederic T Winters

Sylviane Mayer

Joseph A Hebda

Andrea Blackburn

Bradford V Feiler

Benjamin Tong

Dawn Macleod

Prasanna Korlahalli

Shivaprasad Ramchandra

A stowable vehicle seat and seat arrangement are provided for a vehicle having a vehicle floor. The arrangement includes a first outboard seat with a seat base, a vehicle floor connection and a backrest connected to the seat base. A second outboard seat includes a seat base, a vehicle floor connection and a backrest and a lateral guide rail for lateral movement. The stowable seat includes a seat base, a backrest, a floor connection and a linkage between the seat base, the floor connection and the backrest for movement from a seating position blocking lateral movement of the second outboard seat to a stowage position in which the second outboard seat is moveable laterally along the lateral guideway to a position directly adjacent to the first outboard seat.

Lateral slide pickup truck rear seat

A cable tie for mounting a wire harness within a vehicle interior includes a mounting portion having an opening configured to receive a fastener for securing the cable tie to a support structure. The cable tie also includes a tie portion extending from the mounting portion. The tie portion is configured to wrap around the wire harness to secure the wire harness to the cable tie, and the tie portion is laterally offset from the opening along a direction substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the tie portion.

System and method for mounting a wire harness within a vehicle interior

The present invention relates to a floor latch () for connecting a vehicle seat base portion () with a vehicle floor portion, the floor latch () comprising an attachment means () and a riser (), the floor latch () providing centering of the attachment means () for clamping the riser () with the seat base portion () or with the vehicle floor portion.

Seat structure&#x2014;chamfered mounting of compensating floor latches

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Farmington Hills, MI, United States of America

Steven E White