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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 23, 1999
Ted M. Grohs, Novi, MI (US);
Paul Bergmanis, Windsor, CA;
Lear Corporation, Southfield, MI (US);
Abstract
A vehicular seat for use in extracting a driver from a vehicle driver compartment of, for example, a racing vehicle. The seat includes a shell having a seat bottom and seat back. The seat further includes a securing strap for securing the driver to the seat. A plurality of receptacles are attached to the seat and are adapted to receive a lifting member, such as a plurality of straps. To extract the seat from the driver compartment the driver is secured to the seat by the securing strap. The lifting member is then secured to the seat. The lifting member is then raised to simultaneously extract the driver and seat from out of the driver compartment.