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Granted Patent B2
US 12,122,320 · App. 18/310,778 · Granted Oct 22, 2024

Vehicle seat structure and method for assembling a vehicle seat structure

Inventors: Ludger Muehlenbrock (Recklinghausen, DE); Toralf Mueller (Leverkusen, DE); Tobias Schaffert (Solingen, DE); Klaus Tupuschies (Muehlheim an der Ruhr, DE)
Assignee: Adient US LLC
B60R22/26B60N2/2222B60N2/682B60N2002/684
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Patent No.
US 12,122,320
App. No.
18/310,778
Granted
Oct 22, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A vehicle seat structure has a structural component which has an automatic belt unit. The automatic belt unit is arranged in a hollow space of the structural component and the structural component is connected in a positive-locking and/or materially engaging and/or non-positive-locking manner to at least one other component of the vehicle seat structure. The vehicle seat structure has a seat substructure and the structural component which has an automatic belt unit forms a component of the seat substructure. The structural component which has the automatic belt unit forms a seat frame side portion of the seat substructure A method for assembling such a vehicle seat structure is also provided.

Claims (9)

1. A vehicle seat structure for a vehicle seat, comprising:

a structural component which has an automatic belt unit, wherein the automatic belt unit is arranged in a hollow space of the structural component and the structural component is connected in a positive-locking and/or materially engaging and/or non-positive-locking manner to at least one other component of the vehicle seat structure, wherein the vehicle seat structure has a seat substructure, wherein the structural component which has the automatic belt unit forms a component of the seat substructure, wherein the structural component which has the automatic belt unit forms a seat frame side portion of the seat substructure,

wherein the automatic belt unit for winding up a lap belt of a belt system is arranged in the structural component,

wherein the belt system has a second automatic belt unit in the region of a backrest.

2. The vehicle seat structure according to claim 1 , wherein the belt system is in the form of a 3-point belt system.

3. The vehicle seat structure according to claim 1 , wherein the belt system is a safety belt system.

4. The vehicle seat structure according to claim 1 , wherein the vehicle seat structure has both the structural component having the automatic belt unit for winding up the lap belt of the belt system, and another structural component having an automatic belt unit for winding up a shoulder belt.

5. The vehicle seat structure according to claim 4 ,

wherein the two automatic belt units are a component of precisely one 3-point belt system.

Assignments (2)
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Dec 5, 2025
From: ADIENT US LLC
To: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 073872/0954 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 2, 2023
From: MUEHLENBROCK, LUDGER; MUELLER, TORALF; SCHAFFERT, TOBIAS; TUPUSCHIES, KLAUS
To: ADIENT US LLC
Reel/Frame 063507/0539 →