Seat position adjustment apparatus for vehicle

• US 10,377,270 B2
• Filed: 11/03/2017
• Issued: 08/13/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DAE WON KANG Up Company Limited, Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group), Kia Motors Corporation (Kia Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: Park, Il Hong, Kim, Eun Sue, Jung, Dae Ig, Lim, Keun Sig, You, Byoung Su, Lim, Jong Ho, Koo, Sang Yong, Hur, Sun Ho, Kim, Dong Hwi, Jang, Young Cheol, Kim, Tae Hyung
• Primary Examiner(s): Lewis, Justin V
• Application Number:
  US15/802,742
• Publication Number:
  US 20180272896A1
• Time in Patent Office: 648 Days
• Field of Search: 297 1, 297 161, 297118, 2971831, 2971832, 2972171
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/02246 Electric motors therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/07 Slide construction
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/12 slidable and tiltable
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/233 by linear screw mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/34 into a bed
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/995 Lower-leg-rests, e.g. calf-rests

Abstract

A seat position adjustment apparatus for a vehicle may include fixed rails fixed on a bottom plane; first sliding rails configured to slide in forward and backward directions on the fixed rails respectively, and provided with cushion links rotatably coupled to the cushion frame; second sliding rails configured to move with the first sliding rails and slide on and protrude from the first sliding rails, and formed to support the cushion frame with the cushion links; a driving device mounted to the first sliding rails or the second sliding rails and configured to transmit power to the first sliding rails and the second sliding rails; and a seat back link rotatably mounted on the bottom plane or the fixed rails and rotatably coupled to and supporting a seat back frame.

Claims

1. A seat position adjustment apparatus for a vehicle, provided with a cushion frame and a back frame rotatably mounted to the cushion frame, wherein the apparatus comprises:

fixed rails fixed on a bottom plane;

first sliding rails configured to slide in forward and backward directions on the fixed rails respectively;

cushion links having a first end pivotally connected to the first sliding rails and a second end pivotally connected to the cushion frame;

second sliding rails slidably mounted on the first sliding rails and configured to move together with the first sliding rails and slide on and protrude from the first sliding rails and formed to support the cushion frame;

a driving device mounted to the first sliding rails or the second sliding rails and configured to transmit power to the first sliding rails and the second sliding rails; and

a seat back link rotatably mounted on the bottom plane or the fixed rails and rotatably coupled to a seat hack frame to support the seat back frame,

wherein the fixed rails, the first sliding rails, and the second sliding rails are slidably coupled to each other.

2. The seat position adjustment apparatus of claim 1, wherein the cushion links are rotatable coupled to a front end portion of the first sliding rails at a first end portion of the cushion link and rotatably connected at a rear end portion of the cushion frame at a second end portion of the cushion link.

3. The seat position adjustment apparatus of claim 1, wherein front end portions of the second sliding rails are formed with a connection end portion bent and extending upwardly and wherein the connection end portion is rotatably coupled to a front end portion of the cushion frame.

4. The seat position adjustment apparatus of claim 3, wherein lengths of the cushion links of the first sliding rails and the connection end portion of the second sliding rails are formed such that the cushion frame is maintained horizontally when the first sliding rails and the second sliding rails are slid and moved by operation of the driving device.

5. The seat position adjustment apparatus of claim 1, wherein a first end portion of the seat back link is rotatably mounted on the bottom plane at a rear side of the fixed rails and a second end portion thereof is rotatably coupled to the seat back frame, and wherein a length of the seat back link is formed such that the seat back link is laid down horizontally together with the cushion frame when the first sliding rails and the second sliding rails are slid and moved by operation of the driving device.

6. The seat position adjustment apparatus of claim 1, wherein each of the first sliding rails further includes a first guide screw mounted on the bottom plane and extending in forward and backward directions of the first sliding rails, and the driving device includes a motor mounted to the first sliding rails to move together with the first sliding rails and a screw rod extending from the motor and connected to the first guide screw.

7. The seat position adjustment apparatus of claim 6, wherein each of the second sliding rails further includes a second guide screw extending along a longitudinal direction of the first sliding rail and connected to the screw rod of the driving device.

8. The seat position adjustment apparatus of claim 6, wherein the fixed rails are configured to be symmetrically paired, the first sliding rails are configured to be paired to be provided on the pair of fixed rails, the pair of first sliding rails are connected to each other by a stepped mounting member extending in a mutual opposite direction of the first sliding rails, and the motor of the driving device is mounted at the stepped mounting member.

9. The seat position adjustment apparatus of claim 8, wherein the second sliding rails are configured to be paired to be provided on the pair of first sliding rails and wherein the pair of first sliding rails are connected by the connection end portion extended in a mutual opposite direction of the first sliding rails at the front end portions of the first sliding rails.