Johnson Controls Technology Company

Wei-Pin Wu

Robert H Dietze

John James Flannery

Mark A Pattok

Walton H Shurtleff

Joseph P Vitale

Jeffrey A Lindberg

Frank Wu

Robert M Healy

A vehicle seat having an inflatable airbag with the trim cover overlying the airbag being reinforced in the region adjacent to the airbag and having a weakened zone formed by cutting the reinforcement to create a tear line for deployment of the airbag through the trim cover. The reinforcement reduces stretching of the trim cover during deployment of the airbag at locations surrounding the tear line such that the trim cover ruptures along the tear line to produce a predictable airbag deployment.

Reinforced trim cover for a vehicle seat assembly with a tear line for airbag deployment

A vehicle seat assembly having a seat back which pivots during a rear impact vehicle collision in Such a manner that the upper end of the seat back rotates foreword. The pivoting seat back includes a releasable latch mechanism to hold the seat back frame fixed in a predetermined position about a pivot axis. The latch mechanism is releasable by inertia forces in response to a rear vehicle collision, to release the latch member and free the seat back frame for rotation about the pivot axis.

Pivoting seat back

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Wei-Pin Wu