A motor car with three front seats side by side.

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MINISTRY OF TRADE AND CRAFTS INDUSTRY

DGPI - ITALIAN PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE

PATENT FOR INDUSTRIAL INVENTION N. 01238121

This patent is granted for the invention subject of the application specified below;

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<td> 067894</td><td> 89</td><td>TORINO</td><td> 17/10/1989</td><td>B-62D</td>

<td>HOLDER</td><td>GIANNI BULGARI SPA, IN ROME</td>

<td>RAPPR.TE</td><td>NOIARO GIANCARLO C / 0 JACOBACCICASETTA &amp; PERANI SPA,</td>

<td>ADDRESS</td><td>VIA ALFIERI, 17 10100 TURIN</td>

<td>TITLE</td><td>CAR WITH THREE FRONT SEATS FACED</td>

<td>INVENTOR</td><td>BULGARI GIANNI</td>

Rome, July 7, 1993

THE MANAGER (GIOVANNA MORELLI)

TO THE MINISTRY OF THE INDUSTRY OF. TRADE AND CRAFTS

CENTRAL PATENT OFFICE ROME

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DESCRIPTION of the industrial invention entitled:

Car with three front seats side by side with: GIANNI BULGARI SpA, Italian nationality, Via Mercati,

17 / A - 00197 Rome

Designated inventor: Dr. Gianni BULGARI

Filed on: October 17, 1989 67864 A-89 «« «*

SUMMARY

In a car of the type with three front seats side by side, the central front seat is set back from the other two front seats in order to ensure adequate lateral containment of the occupant of this seat while driving. The passenger compartment of the car is also equipped with two separate rear seats whose median planes are slightly inclined with respect to the median vertical plane of the car, so as to diverge towards the front. The rear seats are spaced from each other, so as to leave a space between them which is partially occupied by the central front seat. This ensures maximum comfort and a great availability of space for all five passengers, allowing at the same time to create a body of relatively small external dimensions.

The rear seats are preferably foldable in order to create a large accessible loading surface

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DESCRIPTION

The present invention relates to cars of the type with three front seats side by side.

In the prior art, several cars of this type have been proposed - The idea behind the third front seat is to allow, when the car is occupied by only three passengers, to accommodate both people who do not drive in the front of the passenger compartment, so as to ensure maximum comfort, maximum availability of space and maximum visibility. Last but not least, there is a need to facilitate communication between the third passenger and the other two, which is somewhat er

hindered in traditional cars, where the third passenger sits in the back seat.

Despite the above mentioned advantages, the cars with three front seats made so far have never had a significant market success. The Applicant believes that one of the main reasons for this failure consists in the fact that the passenger seated on the central front seat does not have available side supports to use during the journey, therefore he is subject to a feeling of discomfort and inconvenience, particularly cornering and at speed dACCBAGCÌ - CAScìU &amp; PtiSàNi sustained.

- 2 In order to solve the above problem, the applicant has already proposed, in his patent application for utility model η. 53Θ40-Β / 87 of 26 November 1967, a car with three front seats side by side, in which the central front seat is slightly set back compared to the other two front seats. In this way, the person occupying the central front seat is contained laterally during the journey by the two adjacent sides of the two lateral front seats. At the same time, all the above advantages deriving from the use of three front seats side by side are obtained.

Applicant also became aware, following the filing of the previous patent application no

53840-B / 87, which had already been proposed in the auto- technique?

p cars with three front seats side by side, with the central front seat slightly set back from the other two front seats. Passenger cars of this type are for example described and illustrated in the British patents n. 14074 and n. 24599, in the German patent no. 284 260 and in French patents no. 1.053.218 and 1.059.830, These front solutions, however, all refer to cars without rear seats or to cars in which the habitability of the passengers occupying the rear seats is unsatisfactory. The use of a rear central front seat causes a decrease in the available space

- 3 for rear passengers, with the same dimensions of the passenger compartment. This prevents, for example, the adoption of a single sofa for the rear seats, since the person occupying the central part of the sofa has very little space available for his legs, due to the retraction of the central front seat. In some of the aforementioned prior documents (including the Applicant's previous utility model application) this problem is solved by also having a row of three side-by-side seats with slightly recessed central seat for the rear seats. This solution, however, is not completely satisfactory since it entails an increase in the external longitudinal dimension of the car and / or a decrease in the space p

available in the rear load compartment. yr

The object of the present invention is to provide a motor vehicle which combines all the characteristic advantages of the various solutions previously proposed without presenting the drawbacks.

In order to achieve this aim, the invention relates to a car with three front seats side by side, characterized by the combination of the following characteristics:

a) the central front seat is slightly set back from the other two front seats, so as to ensure correct operation while driving

- CASTUA &amp; FESàHl lateral containment of the person occupying this seat,

b) the car has two separate rear seats whose median vertical planes are inclined with respect to the median longitudinal plane of the motor vehicle, so as to diverge towards the front, the space between the two rear seats being partially occupied by the seat central front.

The divergent predisposition towards the front of the two rear seats allows to obtain excellent driving comfort for the persons occupying these seats despite the backward movement of the central front seat, and at the same time it allows to make a car having relatively contained external dimensions (here we refer particularly to the longitudinal dimension and the width at the rear of the car) while obtaining at the same time a large space available in the load compartment. The elimination of the third rear seat could seem at first sight an inconvenience. In reality, the basic error of the previously proposed solutions consists in having considered the third front seat as an additional seat, to be added to the five normally existing seats. This consequently led to problems with the vehicle's excessive external dimensions. One of the ideas which is at the basis of the present invention, and which apparently has not been absolutely obvious to the technicians that in

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«1 * 334 S 'ΙΠΜίϊ - SMWfW past have faced the problem under discussion, is to maintain the five-seat passenger compartment, simply by transferring the rear center seat to the front of the passenger compartment. Once this simple, but not obvious, consideration has been made (all in all, the frequency of travel with six people on board is not such as to justify the adoption of sixth place with all the problems that derive from it), we can then fully appreciate how The invention defined above actually allows to achieve the best compromise between the different needs involved.

Preferably, the two rear seats are of the folding type, so as to allow an increase in the space available in the load compartment. In this case, the car is equipped with a tailgate for access to said compartment

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of loading.

Further characteristics and advantages of the invention will become clear from the following description with reference to the annexed drawings, provided purely by way of non-limiting example, in which:

figure 1 is a perspective view of the passenger compartment of a car according to the invention, and figure 2 is a schematic plan view of the passenger compartment of figure 1, with the rear seats in an inoperative position, figure 3 is a further perspective view of the group

- 6 of the five seats,

- figure 4, illustrating the way in which the rear seats can be brought into an inoperative position, and figure 5 is a perspective figure of the car floor.

With reference to the drawings, the reference reference 1 indicates a car having several ancillary ancestors side by side

4, b, 6. the central front seat b is slightly extended Lx-ato with respect to the two front side seats 4,6, so as to allow its occupant, as already said, to find a lateral support in the sides, adjacent to the front seats lateral 4, 6, This allows to obtain maximum running comfort, especially when cornering.

Preferably, the central front seat 5, as well as the ρ

front side seats 4, 6 are mounted on devices ^p longitudinal guide which allow to adjust the longitudinal position o the seat with respect to the car floor.

advantages deriving from the arrangement of the seats 4, b, described above have been widely indicated in the preamble of the present description.

At the rear, the passenger compartment of the car has two separate rear seats 7, 8, whose median vertical planes 7a, 8a are inclined (by 9 in the example illustrated) with respect to the longitudinal vertical plane 9 of the motor vehicle, so to be divergent from ahead. This. allows, as already indicated above, to obtain maximum comfort for the passengers occupying these seats. At the same time, the space between the two seats 7, 8 is partially occupied by the central front seat 5 without this entailing the construction of a car having too long a longitudinal dimension. On the contrary, the aforesaid arrangement allows to considerably contain the external dimensions of the car. The inclination of the

Furthermore, Eedili also allows the width of the bodywork to be kept in correspondence with its rear part.

rear seats 7, b can be foldable, so as to allow obtaining a large compartment of% load, accessible through the rear hatch r

r of the car. According to a possible solution, the seats

7, 8 can be brought from the operating position (fig.

3) to the inoperative position (fig. 4) by folding down the backrests. Figure b illustrates the floor 10 of the car (in the example shown it is a plastic platform intended to be mounted on a trellis frame), comprising seats 11 for the front seats and seats 12 raised for the power seats . When the backrests of the rear seats are folded down in the position shown in figure 4 they are flush with the top «

loading rear 13, so as to extend the surface

- 8 useful.

The adoption of the solution forming the subject of the present application allows a car to be produced which has characteristics of considerable originality with respect to the cars proposed so far. All passengers have a habitability and comfort at the level of a large and high-class car, while in reality the external dimensions of the car can be very small, so as to allow the adoption of the invention also for a middle class or Basque car. The car is also suitable for being built on the basis of various possible philosophies of use. In fact, it lends itself to be made in the form of a family car, with ample load availability, in the form of?

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city ​​car of small size, but having at the same time great habitability, or even in the form of a coupé car, with ample room for five people.

Of course, without prejudice to the principle of the invention, the details of construction and the embodiments may vary widely with respect to what is described and illustrated purely by way of example, without departing from the scope of the present invention.