A vehicle seat including: a seat back; a seat pan; and one or more side support elements is disclosed. Each side support element is moveable with respect to the seat back between: a stowed configuration, in which the side support element is stowed flush with, or is stowed within or behind the seat back; and a deployed configuration, in which the side support element extends outwardly from the seat back, generally in the same direction that the seat back faces, so as to offer support to the side of a vehicle user sitting in the vehicle seat. A row of two or more such vehicles seats is also disclosed, in which all of the seats of the row face in the same direction, and adjacent seats within the row are connected to each other.


    Access

    Download


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Vehicle seating with deployable side support


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    2021-02-24


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    B60N SEATS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLES , Sitze besonders für Fahrzeuge ausgebildet



    VEHICLE SEATING ARRANGEMENT WITH DEPLOYABLE BOLSTERS

    WELCH RYAN | European Patent Office | 2019

    Free access

    Seating assembly having deployable strap member

    LINE JOHNATHAN ANDREW / WEST SEAN BAYLE / DESMET EDWARD JOSEPH et al. | European Patent Office | 2021

    Free access

    Vehicle seating assembly with side airbag deployment

    LINE JOHNATHAN ANDREW / KONDRAD MARCOS SILVA / BILLARDELLO NICHOLAS ALPHONSE et al. | European Patent Office | 2016

    Free access

    Deployable vehicle side-step system

    MALIN DIXON / OWEN STICKLEY / FRANCIS RYDER et al. | European Patent Office | 2024

    Free access

    SUPPORT FOR VEHICLE SEATING ASSEMBLY

    HOERNKE SPENCER ROBERT / LINE JOHNATHAN ANDREW / DUNHAM SCOTT HOLMES et al. | European Patent Office | 2020

    Free access