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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2020
Applicant:
Adient Engineering and Ip Gmbh, Burscheid, DE;
Inventors:
Thomas Frotz, Wermelskirchen, DE;
Daniel Bahr, Kürten, DE;
Rudolf Wilhelm Hemmelrath, Leverkusen, DE;
Sven Oldach, Remscheid, DE;
Assignee:
Adient US LLC, Plymouth, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60N 2/64 (2006.01); B60N 2/34 (2006.01); B60N 2/68 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60N 2/646 (2013.01); B60N 2/34 (2013.01); B60N 2/643 (2013.01); B60N 2/686 (2013.01);
Abstract
A kinetic structural component may have a flexible structure having at least one degree of freedom. The flexible structure can be moved between a compressed position and an expanded position or vice versa. The flexible structure may have at least one substructure which is configured, when said flexible structure is in the expanded position, to expand to form a curve or an arc and/or linearly.