Patent ID: 8080303

Claim:
A unitary shell for a safety seat for an automobile racing vehicle unitarily molded as an integral inseparable unit in a configuration for seating of a single occupant to be adapted for use as a driver's seat in a racing automobile, the molded shell comprising an inner layer, an outer layer, and a core positioned therebetween, wherein the inner layer and the outer layer each comprises a plurality of sheets of woven carbon fibers and at least one sheet of aramid fiber material between the carbon fiber sheets, the plurality of sheets being bonded together, and wherein the core comprises an aluminum hexel honeycomb-like material of an essentially uniform thickness bonded to the inner layer and the outer layer by epoxy resin, and a plurality of attachment plates integral to the unitary shell, the unitary shell being molded intimately with and about the attachment plates for integrating the attachment plates unitarily into the shell, the plurality of plates providing mounting attachment locations thereon.