Occupant support system

摘要

Human support systems for one or more of the safety, convenience, comfort of the user.

主权项

1. A child seat in a vehicle adapted to reorient and ensconce and thereby protect the occupant attached thereto upon inertial loading by the occupant resulting from impact to the vehicle on the child seat such that the reaction force of the occupant support system on the occupant is distributed over one or both of: a larger surface area of the occupant; and a larger time period, thereby reducing injury to the occupant, a path of said reorientation being enabled by one or both of differences in deform properties and cross section among a plurality of separate connection fingers each with spaced apart first and second ends along a length, and two corresponding support surfaces, wherein said fingers each have a first end attached to a first support surface supporting the occupant and a second end attached to a second support surface on the vehicle and wherein the first ends are enabled to move in a plurality of paths with a corresponding plurality of loading distributions on said first ends.