Patent ID: 8011732

Claim:
A tiltable anti-pinch vehicle seat assembly for an associated vehicle, the seat assembly comprising: a seat; a tilt assembly for supporting the seat and being disposed between the seat and a chassis of the associated vehicle, the tilt assembly capable of moving the seat between a forward tilted position and a rearward latched position, the tilt assembly including a first latching member; a second latching member secured to the chassis of the associated vehicle for selectively engaging the first latching member, wherein one of the first latching member and the second latching member is a striker and the other of the first latching member and the second latching member is a latch selectively lockable to the striker to maintain the seat in the rearward latched position; and a pinch guard housing disposed about the first and second latching members, the housing substantially covering the first latching member, the second latching member, and a pinch zone defined between the first latching member and the second latching member when the tilt assembly is in the forward tilted position, wherein the pinch guard housing further includes a first side wall, a second side wall spaced apart from and generally parallel to the first side wall, and a rear wall disposed between the first and second side walls and rearward of the first and second latching members, the first and second side walls extending forward from the rear wall and flanking the first and second lathing members.