Seat Rail For Motor Vehicle Seats

• US 20120205511A1
• Filed: 02/03/2012
• Published: 08/16/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Company KG Coburg
• Original Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Company KG Coburg
• Inventors: Hofmann, Jochen
• Application Number:
  US13/365,434
• Publication Number:
  US 20120205511A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 248/429
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0705 omega-shaped
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0715 C or U-shaped
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0722 Constructive details
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/682 Joining means

Abstract

A seat rail for motor vehicle seats includes a lower rail 1 and an upper rail 2 which is displaceable relative to the lower rail 1. The lower rail 1 includes holes 4, 5 for screws or other fastening structure for fastening the lower rail 1 to the vehicle floor and the lower rail 1 includes markings for the position of the holes 4, 5 in the outer regions not concealed by the upper rail 2.

Claims

1. A seat rail for motor vehicle seats comprising:

a lower rail,

an upper rail which is displaceable relative to the lower rail,

wherein the lower rail comprises holes for screws or other fastening means for fastening the lower rail to the vehicle floor and wherein the lower rail comprises markings for the position of the holes in the outer regions not concealed by the upper rail.

2. The seat rail of claim 1, wherein the holes are located in a lower bottom surface of the lower rail and the markings are applied to an upper edge of a side wall of the lower rail.

3. The seat rail of claim 1, wherein the markings are arranged on upper edges of two side walls of the lower rail, in each case on both sides of the holes.

4. The seat rail of claim 1, wherein the holes 4, 5) are configured to be circular or as a slot, and the markings are arranged approximately perpendicular above the central point of the surface of the holes.

5. The seat rail of claim 1, wherein the lower rail comprises two holes for fastening to the vehicle floor and comprises at least one marking per hole.

6. The seat rail of claim 1, wherein the upper rail, in the end regions of its longitudinal extent in an upwardly facing top surface, comprises a number of marking lines arranged transversely to its longitudinal extent.

7. The seat rail of claim 6, wherein the marking lines of the upper rail reach as far as the region of the markings of the lower rail.

8. The seat rail of claim 7, wherein a number of recesses in the manner of centre punch marks is stamped in the top surface of the upper rail, wherein a recess is located in each case on one respective marking line above the holes.

9. The seat rail of claim 1, wherein elements of a device for adjusting or locking the relative position between the lower rail and the upper rail are located in a hollow space enclosed by the lower rail and the upper rail.

10. A method for producing a seat rail for motor vehicle seats, the seat rail comprising a lower rail and an upper rail which in each case are produced by a metal forming process, wherein the lower rail during the metal forming process is provided with holes for subsequent fastening of the lower rail to a vehicle floor, the method comprising the step of

during the metal forming process arranging stamped portions for marking the position of the holes in a region of the lower rail which is still subsequently visible from the outside.