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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2012
Faurecia Automotive Seating, Llc, Troy, MI (US);
Amit Kulkarni, Troy, MI (US);
David Goligorsky, Cambridge, MA (US);
Timothy R. Proulx, Nashua, NH (US);
Faurecia Automotive Seating, LLC, Troy, MI (US);
Abstract
A vehicle seat includes a backrest coupled to an upwardly extending support frame. The backrest includes a deformable seat shell adapted to assume various shapes between an initial position and a final position in response to variable rearward loads applied by the torso of a seated passenger. The seat shell is coupled to the support frame by a compliant shell-motion controller via upper and lower motion-control links. At least one of the motion-control links includes a flexural portion configured to bend about a pivot axis to establish a flexural joint. The lower motion-control link may include a flexural joint and/or a revolute joint, and the upper motion control link may include a flexural, revolute, or spheroidal joint.