Integrated car seat with lengthwise adjustment mechanism

• US 20070170769A1
• Filed: 01/26/2007
• Published: 07/26/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adient US, LLC (Adient plc)
• Original Assignee: C ROB Hammerstein GmbH & Company KG (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Inventors: Wolfel, Jorg-Max, Beneker, Wilfried, Becker, Burckhard
• Granted Patent: US 7,740,316 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 297/468
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/688 Particular seat belt attachment and guiding
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 22/26 secured to the seat

Abstract

In the integrated car seat with a lengthwise adjustment mechanism having two pairs of rails, with a bottom support frame having two front pivotal supports, two rear pivotal supports and two side parts carried on the pivotal supports, with a seat back connected to the side parts by a seat back joint and with a seat belt buckle, the side part is configured in the shape of a shell on the seat side that is turned away from the buckle, the side part having a bottom and a perimeter profile rim. The side part turned away from the buckle is open toward the outside, the outside preferably meaning the outboard side of the seat.

Claims

1. An integrated car seat with a lengthwise adjustment mechanism comprising two pairs of rails;

a bottom support frame having two front pivotal supports, two rear pivotal supports and two side parts carried on the pivotal supports;

a seat back connected to the side parts by a seat back joint; and

a seat belt buckle, wherein the side part on the seat side that is turned away from the buckle is configured in the shape of a shell and defines a bottom and a perimeter profile rim, and that the side part turned away from the buckle is open toward the outside.

2. The integrated car seat as set forth in claim 1, wherein the two side parts are configured in the shape of a shell with a bottom and perimeter profile rim.

3. The integrated car seat as set forth in claim 1, wherein the side part turned away from the buckle, the side part on the side of the buckle, or the side part turned away from the buckle and the side part on the side of the buckle, have an uneven formed bottom that is deformed at least five millimeters with respect to a surface in which the bottom merges into the profile rim.

4. The integrated car seat as set forth in claim 1, wherein the rear pivotal supports are located between the two side parts.

5. The integrated car seat as set forth in claim 4, wherein the front pivotal support, the rear pivotal support or the front and rear pivotal supports, of either seat side are formed differently.

6. The integrated car seat as set forth in claim 1, wherein the front pivotal support on the buckle side is hinged to the inner side of the side part located on the buckle side and the front pivotal support turned away from the buckle is hinged to the outer side of the side part that is turned away from the buckle.

7. The integrated car seat as set forth in claim 1, wherein an adjustable seat back joint mountings is provided on the side part turned away from the buckle only.

8. The integrated car seat as set forth in claim 1, wherein a seat back joint mountings is disposed on either seat side and that the seat back joint mountings on the seat side turned away from the buckle is devised for torques and, as a result thereof, for stopping loads, that are at least 50% higher than those the seat back mountings on the buckle side is able to take.

9. The integrated car seat as set forth in claim 1, wherein the two pairs of rails are built identically and that the pair of rails that is turned away from the buckle is reinforced by additional profiles.

10. The integrated car seat as set forth in claim 1, with a seat shell, wherein the retractor is disposed above the rear tie bar.

11. The integrated car seat as set forth in claim 1, wherein at least one pivotal support has a U-profile and that the U-profile is open in the positive x direction.

12. The integrated car seat as set forth in claim 1, wherein at least one rear pivotal support is connected to a toothed quadrant, that there is provided a pinion that meshes with the teeth of the toothed quadrant and is carried in the side part and that the pinion is connected either to an electric drive or to a manual drive.

13. The integrated car seat as set forth in claim 1, wherein there is provided a seat shell that is hinge-linked in its back region to the two side parts and is connected in its front region to the seat side parts through an seat tilting adjustment device.

14. The integrated car seat as set forth in claim 1, wherein each pair of rails has a bottom rail and a seat rail and that at least one seat rail is connected to a console located above the seat rail and to which there is respectively hinge-linked a front and a rear pivotal support.

15. The integrated car seat as set forth in claim 1, wherein the profile rim is wider in its lower rim portion than in its upper rim portion, the difference being at least two mm.

16. The integrated car seat as set forth in claim 1, wherein the side part turned away from the buckle has a markedly increased strength over the other side part, the difference being at least 50%.

17. The integrated car seat as set forth in claim 1, wherein between the rear pivotal supports and the neighboring perimeter profile rim of the side part on the buckle side, there is an air gap as small as possible.

18. The integrated car seat as set forth in claim 1, wherein side part turned away from the buckle and open toward the outside is open toward the outboard side of the seat

19. The integrated car seat as set forth in claim 1, wherein a seat back joint mountings is disposed on either seat side and that the seat back joint mountings on the seat side turned away from the buckle is devised for torques and, as a result thereof, for stopping loads, that are at least 100% higher than those the seat back mountings on the buckle side is able to take.

20. The integrated car seat as set forth in claim 1, wherein the two pairs of rails are built identically and that the pair of rails that is turned away from the buckle is reinforced by additional profiles which, in the normal case, are hooked together without contact and only interlock in the event of an accident.

21. The integrated car seat as set forth in claim 1, wherein the retractor is disposed at least partially beneath the seat shell.

22. The integrated car seat as set forth in claim 1, wherein at least one pivotal support has a U-profile and that the U-profile is open in the negative x direction.

23. The integrated car seat as set forth in claim 1, wherein the rear pivotal support turned away from the buckle is connected to a toothed quadrant, that there is provided a pinion that meshes with the teeth of the toothed quadrant and is carried in the side part and that the pinion is connected either to an electric drive or to a manual drive.

24. The integrated car seat as set forth in claim 1, wherein each pair of rails has a bottom rail and a seat rail and that the seat rail located on the seat side turned away from the buckle is connected to a console located above the seat rail and to which there is respectively hinge-linked a front and a rear pivotal support.

25. The integrated car seat as set forth in claim 1, wherein the profile rim is wider in its lower rim portion than in its upper rim portion, the difference being at about 5 mm.

26. The integrated car seat as set forth in claim 1, wherein the side part turned away from the buckle has a markedly increased strength over the other side part, the difference being at least 100%.

27. The integrated car seat as set forth in claim 1, wherein between the rear pivotal supports and the neighboring perimeter profile rim of the side part on the buckle side, there is an air gap as small as possible and that the rear pivotal supports are flat metal sheet parts.