Patent ID: 7963602

Claim:
A vehicle seat that has a pelvic bolster and that is mountable in a vehicle having a vehicle door, the seat comprising: a seat base having a front and a back; a seat back operatively associated with said back of said seat base, said seat back having a side; a threat condition sensor for detecting an impending crash event; a drive motor operatively associated with said sensor, wherein a drive shaft extends from the drive motor; and a pelvic bolster having a first end that is operatively coupled to the drive motor via the drive shaft and a second end that generally opposes the first end, the pelvic bolster being rotatably movable between a stowed position in which said bolster is generally adjacent said side of said seat back, such that the second end includes a vertically oriented position, and a deployed position in which said bolster generally rotates forward toward said seat base, such that the second end includes a horizontally oriented position, wherein the drive shaft and the drive motor include a configuration that causes the second end to rotate from the vertically-oriented position to the horizontally-oriented position when the impending crash event is detected by the threat condition sensor.