A vehicle occupant air curtain system includes a seat that has a seat cushion and a seat back. The seat back has a region that is configured to be arranged above an occupant shoulder. An air vent is supported on the seat back and is arranged in the region. The air vent is configured to be directed adjacent to a seated occupant's head and neck.

Regarding a skin in which pores are formed for passage of a current of air generated by an air blower, the present invention properly ensures strength around the pores. A vehicle seat includes a skin forming a part of a seat body facing an occupant and an air blower attached to the seat body. The skin is provided with a top layer provided on a side of the skin facing the occupant in a thickness direction and a fabric layer provided at a position on a side opposite to the top layer. A plurality of pores allowing passage of a current of air generated by the air blower are formed in both the top layer and the fabric layer. A part of the fabric layer positioned at an edge of the pore is made of a fabric constituted by urethane resin-impregnated fibers being knitted.

A seat air-conditioning device provided in a compartment of a vehicle that supplies air generated by a blower includes a pad wrapped in the skin and a ventilation sheet which is formed in a thin plate shape and supplies air to the seated passenger. An internal space is formed in the pad. The pad includes a seating side communication part that communicates the internal space with the seating surface of the skin, and a blower side communication portion that communicates the internal space with the blower. The ventilation sheet is disposed in the internal space.

An occupant support comprises a vehicle seat including a cushion and trim positioned around at least a portion of the cushion. The occupant support includes an occupant-comfort system having a heat transfer station positioned in the seat cushion in spaced-apart relation to the trim and configured to move selectively heat to an occupant in a heating mode and away from the occupant in a cooling mode.

There is provided a vehicle seat (car seat) comprising a seat cushion pad (seat body) having an air passage connected to an outlet port (114), and a blower having an inlet port (113) and configured to feed air taken in through the inlet port (113) to the air passage. The blower (100) is located on the lower side of the seat cushion pad (seat body) that is opposite to an occupant's side on which an occupant is to be seated, and the inlet port (113) is directed upward that is a direction toward the seat cushion pad (seat body).

A vehicle seat, wherein in order to ensure that air reliably flows through the entire sir channel formed on the seat obverse surface side when a blower on the seat reverse surface side is operated while an occupant is seated on the seat, a hole part passing from the surface on the side for seating the occupant through to the surface on the opposite side from the surface on the side for seating the occupant is formed through each urethane pad in a seat back and a seat cushion of the vehicle seat, the interiors of the hole parts formed in the urethane pads are filled with a material that is more breathable than the urethane pads, a plurality of grooves extending from the hole parts are formed on the surface of each of the urethane pads on the side for seating the occupant, and a blower for discharging or intaking air from the surface of each of the urethane pads on the side for seating the occupant through the hole parts filled with the breathable material is provided on the surface of each of the urethane pads on the side opposite the side for seating the occupant.

An insert comprising: (a) a cover layer; (b) a spacer layer located below the cover layer; (c) a connection material that is adapted to extend between and connect the cover layer to a trim layer so that the insert is fixed to the trim layer.

An occupant support includes a seat and a seat cover. The seat is adapted to support an occupant resting thereon. The seat cover is coupled to the seat and arranged to lie between the occupant and the seat.

A vehicle seat includes a seating portion and a backrest portion coupled to the seating portion. The seat also includes a temperature-control system associated with at least one of the seating portion and the backrest portion. The temperature-control system includes a base layer and an intermediate layer disposed adjacent to the base layer. The intermediate layer is adapted to allow fluid to flow through it. The temperature-control system includes a cover layer disposed adjacent to the intermediate layer. The temperature-control system includes at least one heating element disposed between the intermediate layer and the cover layer. The temperature-control system further includes a fluid pump to provide fluid flow through the intermediate layer.

A vehicle seating assembly includes a first part, a second part with a second foam part, and a barrier with a permeable portion and a non-permeable portion. The vehicle seating assembly also includes an air passageway extending through the first part, the second foam part, and the permeable portion of the barrier and an air mover fluidly coupled to the air passageway for moving air through the air passageway.