Patent ID: 7059675
Filing Date: 2006-06-13
Classification: B60N,B60R

Abstract:
1. A passenger seat for a multi-passenger motor vehicle, the vehicle having a body with a seat mounting surface, comprising: a seat frame, mountable to the seat mounting surface; an immovable rear seat frame engaged to said seat frame, said rear seat frame providing an obstruction to protect a passenger of a vehicle rearward seat from moving out his safety zone in a forward direction in the event of a vehicle rapid deceleration; a movable front frame, pivotally engaged to said seat frame forward of said immovable rear seat frame, said movable front frame providing a back resting surface for a passenger; a three point seat belt, an upper portion of said seat belt being engaged to an upper portion of said movable front frame, said seat belt causing a pivoting force upon said movable front frame during an activation event; a sacrificial stop plate rigidly engaged to said movable front frame, said sacrificial stop plate holding said movable front frame from moving during normal use and said sacrificial stop plate being deformable for allowing movement of said movable front frame and absorbing energy from said movable front frame, the energy being induced from passenger forward movement in an accident condition, said sacrificial front frame having a maximum deformation with said movable front frame reaching maximum pivoting relative to said seat frame and said immovable rear seat frame upon said sacrificial stop plate reaching said maximum deformation; and said sacrificial stop plate resting against and not affixed to rigid part of the fixed portion of said seat frame.