SEAT RAISER FOR SPACING A SEAT RAIL FROM THE VEHICLE FLOOR

• US 20130026328A1
• Filed: 07/25/2012
• Published: 01/31/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Company KG Coburg
• Original Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Company KG Coburg
• Inventors: Ferenc, Anthony, Bhat, Anil
• Granted Patent: US 8,807,508 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 248/429
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/07 Slide construction
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0705 omega-shaped
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/682 Joining means

Abstract

A seat raiser for spacing a seat rail of a motor vehicle seat from a vehicle floor is provided. The seat raiser comprising a welding portion which includes at least one specified welding point and is formed and provided to weld the seat rail to the seat raiser at the welding point and a fastening portion which includes at least one specified fastening point and is formed and provided to fasten the seat raiser to the vehicle floor at the fastening point. The seat raiser is formed substantially L-shaped in cross-section and the welding portion and the fastening portion each form a leg of the L-shape. The welding portion includes exactly two specified welding points spaced from each other, via which the seat raiser is to be welded to the seat rail.

Claims

1. A seat raiser for spacing a seat rail of a motor vehicle seat from a vehicle floor, comprising

a welding portion which includes at least one specified welding point and is formed and provided to weld the seat rail at the welding point to the seat raiser, and

a fastening portion which includes at least one specified fastening point and is formed and provided to fasten the seat raiser at the fastening point to the vehicle floor,

wherein the seat raiser is formed substantially L-shaped in cross-section and the welding portion and the fastening portion each form a leg of the L-shape, and

wherein the welding portion includes exactly two specified welding points spaced from each other, via which the seat raiser is to be welded to the seat rail.

2. The seat raiser according to claim 1, wherein the seat raiser is formed such that when properly connected with the seat rail the welding portion extends substantially vertically and the fastening portion extending transversely thereto extends substantially horizontally.

3. The seat raiser according to claim 1, wherein the welding portion is formed longer than the fastening portion.

4. The seat raiser according to claim 1, wherein the two welding points are formed on the welding portion offset to each other.

5. The seat raiser according to claim 4, wherein the two welding points are offset to each other with respect to a longitudinal axis which extends substantially parallel to an imaginary first plane defined by the fastening portion and parallel to an imaginary second plane defined by the welding portion.

6. The seat raiser according to claim 1, wherein the two welding points are arranged spaced from each other and one behind the other with respect to a longitudinal direction.

7. The seat raiser according to claim 6, wherein the welding points furthermore are spaced from each other transversely to this longitudinal direction and thereby are formed on the welding portion offset to each other.

8. The seat raiser according to claim 1, wherein the welding portion comprises at least one more specified connecting point for a component of the vehicle seat.

9. A vehicle seat assembly with at least one seat rail by means of which a vehicle seat can longitudinally shiftably be mounted relative to a vehicle floor, and with at least one seat raiser according to claim 1, via which the seat rail is spaced from the vehicle floor and to which the seat rail is welded on at least one welding point of the seat raiser.

10. The vehicle seat assembly according to claim 9, wherein the two welding points of the seat raiser, at which the seat rail is welded to the seat raiser, are arranged one behind the other in a direction of longitudinal extension of the seat rail.

11. The vehicle seat assembly according to claim 9, wherein the two welding points of the seat raiser, at which the seat rail is welded to the seat raiser, are offset to each other with respect to a direction of longitudinal extension of the seat rail.

12. The vehicle seat assembly according to claim 9, wherein the fastening portion extends substantially transversely to a direction of longitudinal extension of the seat rail.