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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 1995
Filed:
Apr. 11, 1994
Clayton J Hayes, Romeo, MI (US);
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
A vehicle seat assembly is provided which, in a preferred embodiment, includes a vehicle seatback frame with at least two spaced-apart rails defining a seating surface therebetween, a flexible seat suspension bridging over and connecting to the spaced-apart rails for supporting the seating surface and including a generally elongated member generally parallel to at least one of the rails, a wire wing reinforcement pivotally mounted at upper and lower ends to the elongated member and extending from the elongated member and having upper stop means and lower means by making contact with the elongated member to limit a maximum angle of the wing reinforcement with respect to the seating surface, and an elastic wing covering the wing reinforcement compliantly returning the wing reinforcement to an angle approximating the maximum angle of the wing reinforcement with respect to the seating surface whenever the wing has been angularly displaced toward the seating surface.