Vehicle seat with a roller guide

• US 10,286,812 B2
• Filed: 05/02/2017
• Issued: 05/14/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Grammer AG (Ningbo Jifeng Auto Parts Co.,Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Grammer AG (Ningbo Jifeng Auto Parts Co.,Ltd.)
• Inventors: Kassner, Dirk, Lehner, Norbert
• Primary Examiner(s): Smith, Nkeisha
• Application Number:
  US15/584,751
• Publication Number:
  US 20170320405A1
• Time in Patent Office: 742 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/04 the whole seat being movable
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/07 Slide construction
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0747 the opening of the cross section being oriented in a direction different from the vertical, e.g. transversal
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/50 Seat suspension devices
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/508 Scissors-like structure
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2205/20 Measures for elimination or compensation of play or backlash
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 2202/08 Resilience, elasticity, super-elasticity
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 29/04 Ball or roller bearings
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 29/045 having rolling elements journaled in one of the moving parts
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 29/0619 with rollers or needles

Abstract

The invention relates to a vehicle seat with a roller guide, wherein the roller guide has at least one at least partially laterally open guide rail and at least one running roller rolling in the guide rail and connected to parts of the vehicle seat by means of at least one axle, wherein the guide rail comprises a roller bottom-side inner wall arranged parallel to a central axis of the running roller, extending parallel thereto a roller top-side inner wall and a roller outer-side inner wall arranged perpendicularly to the central axis, wherein at least one lower transition inner wall is arranged between the roller bottom-side inner wall and the roller outer-side inner wall and at least one upper transition inner wall is arranged between the roller top-side inner wall and the roller outer-side inner wall, wherein the transition inner walls are configured free from a right-angled portion and in directions from the roller top-side inner wall and the roller bottom-side inner wall towards the roller outer-side inner wall are configured with a continuously reducing spacing from the central axis of the running roller, wherein on an axial loading of the roller guide in the direction of the central axis of the running roller, a lower portion of an outer end portion at a first end of the running roller configured to face the roller outer-side inner wall lies with contact against the lower transition inner wall.

Claims

1. A vehicle seat with a roller guide, wherein the roller guide has at least one at least partially laterally open guide rail and at least one running roller rolling in the guide rail and connected to parts of the vehicle seat by means of at least one axle, wherein the guide rail comprises a roller bottom-side inner wall arranged parallel to a central axis of the running roller, extending parallel thereto a roller top-side inner wall and a roller outer-side inner wall arranged perpendicularly to the central axis,

wherein at least one lower transition inner wall is arranged between the roller bottom-side inner wall and the roller outer-side inner wall and at least one upper transition inner wall is arranged between the roller top-side inner wall and the roller outer-side inner wall,

wherein the transition inner walls are configured free from a right-angled portion and in directions from the roller top-side inner wall and the roller bottom-side inner wall towards the roller outer-side inner wall are configured with a continuously reducing spacing from the central axis of the running roller,

wherein on an axial loading of the roller guide in a direction of the central axis of the running roller, a lower portion of an outer end portion at a first end of the running roller configured to face the roller outer-side inner wall lies with contact against the lower transition inner wall, and

wherein a roller cover of the running roller is rollable along the roller bottom-side inner wall of the guide rail, wherein the roller cover of the running roller is configured at least into a first cover surface functional region which forms the first end of the running roller and has the outer end portion, and a second cover surface functional region arranged therebehind in the direction of the axis of the running roller, said second functional region forming a second end of the running roller facing away from the roller outer-side inner wall.

2. The vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein the outer end portion is configured, at least in a relaxed state of the running roller, to be rotationally symmetrical, preferably annular, in relation to the central axis of the running roller.

3. The vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein a shape of at least one of the lower transition inner wall and/or the upper transition inner wall is arc-shaped.

4. The vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein the first functional region is configured to be funnel-shaped and the second functional region is configured to be cylindrical.

5. The vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein an outer diameter of the second functional region has an undersize (y) in relation to a spacing between the roller top-side inner wall and the roller bottom-side inner wall.

6. The vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein the first functional region of the roller cover of the roller is deformable by means of a radial loading of the roller guide due to seat occupancy of the vehicle seat and without the radial loading and the axial loading of the roller guide, presses so strongly against the roller bottom-side inner wall and the roller top-side inner wall of the guide rail that the roller is blocked within the guide rail.

7. The vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein on axial loading of the roller guide and without the radial loading, an upper portion of the outer end portion lies with contact against the upper transition inner wall.

8. The vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein on radial loading and without the axial loading, the first and the second functional regions lie with contact against the lower inner wall and without contact on the upper inner wall, wherein the outer end portion is arranged without contact on both transition inner walls.

9. The vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein on radial loading and axial loading, the first and the second functional regions lie with contact against the lower inner wall and without contact on the upper inner wall.

10. The vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein the first functional region is arranged surrounding a portion of the running roller lying inwardly in a radial direction of the roller, wherein in the radial direction of the roller, a hollow cylindrically-formed cavity is arranged between the first functional region and the cylindrical portion.

11. The vehicle seat according to claim 10, wherein a first spacing between the roller outer-side inner wall and the outer end portion is less than a second spacing between the roller outer-side inner wall and an end face of the cylindrical portion.

12. The vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein a shape of at least one of the lower transition inner wall and the upper transition inner wall is straight.