SLIDING DEVICE

• US 20180334056A1
• Filed: 04/19/2018
• Published: 11/22/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: NAGATANI, Yuki
• Granted Patent: US 10,654,436 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0272 using sensors or detectors for detecting the position of seat parts
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0705 omega-shaped
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0715 C or U-shaped
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/1615 Parallelogram-like structure
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/682 Joining means
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/01554 Seat position sensors

Abstract

One example of a sliding device for a vehicle seat that can reduce false detection by a sensor is disclosed. The sliding device includes a fixed rail fixed to a vehicle; a movable rail, to which the vehicle seat is directly or indirectly fixed, that is slidable relative to the fixed rail; a mounting bracket having a fixed portion directly or indirectly fixed to the movable rail, and an extending portion extending from the fixed portion to a front side of the seat; a sensor fixed to the mounting bracket and displaced with the movable rail to detect a position of the movable rail; and a restrictor located closer to the front side of the seat than the fixed portion is. The restrictor restricts a displacement of the sensor by contacting the mounting bracket or the sensor when the extending portion is displaced in excess of a predefined extent.

Claims

1. A sliding device for slidably supporting a vehicle seat, the sliding device comprising:

a fixed rail that is fixed to a vehicle;

a movable rail, to which the vehicle seat is directly or indirectly fixed, that is slidable relative to the fixed rail;

a mounting bracket including;

a fixed portion fixed directly or indirectly to the movable rail, and

an extending portion extending from the fixed portion to a front side of the vehicle seat,

a sensor that is fixed to the mounting bracket and configured to be displaced together with the movable rail to detect a position of the movable rail; and

a restrictor that is located closer to the front side of the vehicle seat than the fixed portion is, and restricts a displacement of the sensor by coming in contact with the mounting bracket or the sensor when the extending portion of the mounting bracket is displaced in excess of a predefined extent.

2. The sliding device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an intermediate bracket for supporting the vehicle seat is fixed to the movable rail,

wherein the mounting bracket is fixed to the intermediate bracket, and

wherein the intermediate bracket includes the restrictor.