Patent ID: 8172318

Claim:
A vehicle seat comprising: a pad carrier formed as a wire frame; a seat cushion that rests on the pad carrier; a seat cushion structure formed from a plurality of wires connected to the wires of the pad carrier, each of the wires of the seat cushion structure including a front longitudinal wire segments extending substantially parallel to a vehicle travel direction and disposed in proximity to a front area of the vehicle seat, a rear longitudinal wire segment extending substantially parallel to the vehicle travel direction and disposed rearward of the front longitudinal wire segment and a transverse wire segment extending transverse to the vehicle travel direction between a rear end of the front longitudinal wire segment and a front end of the rear longitudinal wire segment; and a force introducing plate connected to the front longitudinal wire segments of the seat cushion structure and disposed forward of the transverse wire segments of the seat cushion structure so that the transverse segments of the wires of the seat cushion structure deform and permit movement of the force introducing plate and the front longitudinal wire segments relative to the rear longitudinal wire segments to absorb energy in the event of high forces.