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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
David D. Merrick, Cicero, IN (US);
James R. Chinni, Noblesville, IN (US);
Assignee:
Indiana Mills and Manufacturing, Inc., Westfield, IN (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60N 2/42 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60N 2/42 ;
Abstract
A vehicle seat having a back portion bent or deformed forwardly when impacted from the rear by a passenger. A horizontally movable seat platform is slidably mounted to the seat frame and has lap belts secured thereto. The seat platform is normally held in an aft position by fastening devices which break under forward passenger force applied through the lap belts to the movable platform during a crash. The movable platform includes a plurality of sleeves affixed thereto which are slidably mounted to the main frame of the seat.