Vehicle seat part

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10000176-B2
Application number	US-201715443130-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 27, 2017
Priority date	Feb 29, 2016
Publication date	Jun 19, 2018
Grant date	Jun 19, 2018

Abstract

A vehicle seat part has a cover with a tear seam and an airbag module with an airbag and a force concentrator. The force concentrator partially surrounds the airbag. The concentrator has two end regions connected to the cover adjacent to and on opposing sides of the tear seam. One of the end regions is connected to the cover at a plurality of connecting portions spaced apart from one another.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle seat part comprising:
a cover having a tear seam;
an airbag module having:
an airbag; and
a force concentrator at least partially surrounding the airbag and having two end regions connected to the cover on opposing sides of the tear seam and the end regions allowing deflection of an expansion force of the airbag against the tear seam and one of the end regions being connected to the cover at a plurality of connecting portions distributed along a path of the tear seam with the connecting portions spaced apart from one another along the tear seam by an unconnected portion.

2. The vehicle seat part of claim 1 , wherein each of the end regions are connected to the cover at a plurality of connecting portions distributed along a path of the tear seam and spaced apart from one another along the tear seam by the unconnected portion.

3. The vehicle seat part of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of connecting portions is two in number.

4. The vehicle seat part of claim 3 , wherein the unconnected portion has an indented region which is set back from the tear seam.

5. The vehicle seat part of claim 3 , wherein each of the two connecting portions extends from 20% to 40% of the respective end regions.

6. The vehicle seat part of claim 1 , wherein the connecting portions extend as a whole over at most 80% of the end region.

7. The vehicle seat part of claim 1 , wherein the end regions are stitched to the cover.

8. The vehicle seat part of claim 1 , wherein said vehicle seat part is configured as a seat backrest and the tear seam is arranged thereon at the side.

9. The vehicle seat of claim 1 , wherein the force concentrator includes two parts with one of the end regions being formed on each of the parts, and the parts being connected by a seam on a side remote from the tear seam.

10. The vehicle seat of claim 1 , wherein the airbag is fastened to a frame part of the vehicle seat part inside the cover.

11. A vehicle seat part comprising:
a cover having a tear seam;
an airbag module having:
an airbag; and
a force concentrator partially surrounding the airbag with two end regions connected to the cover adjacent to and on opposing sides of the tear seam and one of the end regions being connected to the cover at a plurality of connecting portions distributed along a path of the tear seam with the connecting portions spaced apart from one another by an unconnected portion.

12. The vehicle seat part of claim 11 , wherein each of the end regions are connected to the cover at a plurality of connecting portions distributed along a path of the tear seam and spaced apart from one another by the unconnected portion.

13. The vehicle seat part of claim 12 , wherein the plurality of connecting portions is two in number for each end region.

14. The vehicle seat part of claim 13 , wherein the unconnected portion has an indented region which is set back from the tear seam.

15. The vehicle seat part of claim 13 , wherein each of the connecting portions extends from 20% to 40% of the respective end regions.

16. The vehicle seat part of claim 12 , wherein the connecting portions extend as a whole over at most 80% of the respective end regions.

17. The vehicle seat part of claim 12 , wherein the end regions are stitched to the cover.

18. The vehicle seat part of claim 12 , wherein said vehicle seat part is configured as a seat backrest and the tear seam is arranged thereon at the side.

19. The vehicle seat of claim 12 , wherein the force concentrator includes two parts with one of the end regions being formed on each of the parts, and the parts being connected by a seam on a side remote from the tear seam.

20. The vehicle seat of claim 12 , wherein the airbag is fastened to a frame part of the vehicle seat part inside the cover.

Assignees

• Ford Global Tech Llc

Inventors

• Buelow Uwe
• Riesen Eugen
• Goesch Michael
• Haenel Felix
• Boeddeker Martina
• Curtis Chris

Classifications

• B60R2021/2076

  Removable covers with tear seams · CPC title

• B60R21/207 Primary

  in vehicle seats · CPC title

• B60N2002/5808

  comprising opening zones for airbags · CPC title

• B60N2/58

  Seat coverings · CPC title

• B60R2021/23146

  seat mounted · CPC title