Weight-sensing support assembly for automotive seat cushion frame

Number of patents in Portfolio can not be more than 2000

United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6559392
APP PUB NO 20030070847A1
SERIAL NO

09976501

Stats

ATTORNEY / AGENT: (SPONSORED)

Importance

Loading Importance Indicators... loading....

Abstract

See full text

A weight-sensing assembly for supporting an automotive seat cushion frame atop a track assembly includes a pair of coupling members that are secured to the seat cushion frame. A set of mounting locations on each coupling member, preferably separated by an elongate portion of the coupling member of generally uniform cross-section, are secured to a respective end of a strain gage sensor's elongate sensing beam. The other end of each sensing beam is secured to a respective mounting location defined on the upper rails of a seat track assembly. The elongate portion of the coupling member, and respective portions of the upper rails separating the mounting locations thereon, are characterized by a flexural stiffness, in a bending plane that includes a longitudinal axis of the sensing beam of at least one sensor assembly, that is at least three times greater than the flexural stiffness of each sensor's sensing beam.

Loading the Abstract Image... loading....

First Claim

See full text

Family

Loading Family data... loading....

Patent Owner(s)

Patent OwnerAddress
LEAR CORPORATION21557 TELEGRAPH ROAD SOUTHFIELD MI 48033

International Classification(s)

Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Folkert, Mark Farmington Hills, MI 2 40
Haynes, Ian D Windsor, CA 7 114
Phares, Joseph M Detroit, MI 1 36

Cited Art Landscape

Load Citation

Patent Citation Ranking

Forward Cite Landscape

Load Citation