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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2003
Patrick Daniel, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US);
Patrick Daniel, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US);
Faurecia Automotive Seating Canada Limited, Mississauga, CA;
Abstract
A vehicle seat assembly for storage in a floor tub within a vehicle floor. The seat assembly includes a seat frame defining a translational axis and a longitudinal axis. The seat assembly also includes a mounting system for mounting the seat frame to the floor tub for selective rotation between a deployed design configuration and a fully tumbled stored-in-floor configuration, with the seat frame being inside the floor tub in the stored-in-floor configuration. Notably, the seat assembly further includes a lateral translation system for positive inboard displacement of the seat frame along the translational axis during the selective rotation of the seat frame from the design configuration towards the stored-in-floor configuration. In the design configuration, the medial seat axis is laterally off-set from a central tub axis defined by the floor tub. In the stored-in-floor configuration, the medial seat axis is aligned with the central tub axis.