IL47209A - Safety seats for motor vehicles - Google Patents

Description

SAFETY SEATS FOR MOTOR VEHICLES The present invention relates to safety seats for use in motor has never been disputed that the tional seating arrangements in motor cars are not as far as safety of passengers at the instant of a collision is At the instant of oolllsion the passengers in the particularly those riding in the front including the driver of the are forcibly thrown forward with sometimes fatal Many proposals habe been put forward all having the aim of safeguarding the passengers at the instant of thereby that the accelerated forward movement is To this end seat belts have been suggested and recently it has been proposed to arrange inflatable air bags in front of each passenger in the front such air bags being automatically Inflated whenever the oar oollides with another car or stationary These solutions are not entirely a passenger who is restricted in his or her movement by being tied down by a seat cannot leave the oar as quickly as might be necessary after a The same applies also to the inflated air but in to the said drawback the inflating in many oases does not function quickly It is the object of the present invention to provide means the impact of their heads with the windscreen or the impact of the driver with the steering wheel is According to the braadest aspeots of the invention the front seats in a motor vehicle are swingingly suspended between two connecting rods the apparends of which are connected to the sides of a while their lower ends a are also swingingly connected to a fixed point in the the lower edge of the seat abutting against a support on which it freely rests In a practical embodiment of the invention the front in the form of individual chairs are swingingly suspended from and two uprights by means of connecting rods which at one end are connected with the said uprights and at their opposite also the the rear lowermost edge of the seat being carried on a support on which it freely being from from sliding there therefrom in rearward direction of the With an arrangement of the kind referred to Ju nww the seat with the passenger occupying at the of is moved forward and with its rear bottom edge thereby coming out of engagement with the supporting means at the rear side of the causing the to tilt away from the windsceen and the The invention will now be described with referenoe to the drawings which in a sohematioal a seat according to the invention and its In the drawings Figure 1 is an lateral view of the ohair according to the while Figure 2 is a frontal view Figures and illustrate the function of the The ohair has a seat and a back 2 and is suspended between two uprights 3 which may be for greater as two vertically extending plates which are fixedly connected to bottom of the The ohair is suspended from the upper portion of the two uprights 3 means of connecting rods As can be seen in Figure 2 the connecting rods are 8 swivellingly or pivotally oonneotfed to the uppermost portion of the ppright 3 5 and in a like at 6 to the ohair The ohair thus hangs down from the two rods At the rear of the at its lower most it is ed by an angular rail The function of the ohair will become clear from Figures to Figure 3 illustrates the normal state of the ohair during travel of the Assuming now that the car meets with an obstacle or collides with another everything in the including the is forcibly thrown forward as is well exactly the same is going to happen to the seats which move forward in the direction of the arrows a and pivotally nected at 5 and 6 the chair also performs an upward movement in the direction of the arrows The result of this movement is that the chair is no longer supported on the angle rail as can be seen in Figure the chair will immediately tilt baokwards as shown in Figure 5 and finally assume the position of Figure 6 where the rear side of the back of the chair is now lying on top of the angle rail It will be seen that by these means the impact of the oar causes the passengers in front seats to be moved away from those parts of the oar which usually cause injury to the passenge riding in It can easily be seen that after the danger has passed the chair can be put back its position of use it has to be turned up lintil its rear edge comes into engagement with the angle rail insufficientOCRQuality

Claims (3)

«♦7209/2 WHAT IS CLAIMED IS:

1. Seats in motor vehicles characterised by being swingingly suspended between two connecting rods the lower ends of which in the rest position are pivotally connected to the lower part of the sides of a seat, while their upper ends are also swingingly connected to a fixed point in the vehicle, the rear, lower edge of the seat abutting against a support on which it freely rests.

2. Seats as claimed in Claim 1, being individual chain? comprising seat and back characterised thereby that the chair is swingingly suspended from and between two uprights by means of connecting rods which at one end are pivotally connected with the said uprighte and at their opposite ends, also pivotally, with the seat, the rear lowermost edge of the seat being carried on a support on which it freely rests , being prevented from sliding therefrom in rearward direction of the seat.

3. The seats claimed in Claim 2, characterised thereby that each chair is suspended from and between two vertical plates fixed to the bottom of the car. I*. Motor cars fitted with chairs claimed in all or any of the preceding claims. Attorneys for Appl cant