Seat sliding runner

• US 4,072,347 A
• Filed: 01/07/1977
• Issued: 02/07/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 01/16/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Societe Industrielle Bertrand Faure Brieres-Les-Scelles
• Original Assignee: Societe Industrielle Bertrand Faure Brieres-Les-Scelles
• Inventors: Boisset, Bernard
• Primary Examiner(s): McCall, James T.
• Application Number:
  US05/757,692
• Time in Patent Office: 396 Days
• Field of Search: 248/430, 248/429, 248/424, 248/393, 248/394, 308/3 R, 308/3.8, 308/3.6, 308/6 R, 297/385, 297/216
• US Class Current: 297/468
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0705 omega-shaped
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0715 C or U-shaped
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0732 Attachment of seat frame to the slide, e.g. eyelets

Abstract

A sliding runner of a particular specified type and supporting a motor vehicle seat is provided with an anchor for the lower end of a safety belt for a passenger on the seat. The sliding runner is one having a lower generally channel section member attached to the vehicle floor and an upper generally inverted channel section member which interfits with the lower channel section member, the upper and lower members co-operating by way of ball races to facilitate movement of the upper member along the lower. The said upper member has secured thereto a jaw member which provides an anchorage for the lower end of a safety belt and which embraces the engaging portions of the said upper and lower members so as to be slidable with the said upper member while resisting disengagement from the sliding runner and hence providing a reliable anchorage for the safety belt.

Claims

1. In a sliding runner supporting a motor vehicle seat, said sliding runner comprising:

a lower profiled member of generally channel section having opposed flanks extended externally by respective angle section members and respective arched portions joining said angle section members to said flanks, each said angle section member having a first web extending downwardly from the corresponding arched portion and a second web extending outwardly from the bottom of the first web;

means attaching said lower profiled member to the floor of the vehicle;

an upper profiled member of generally inverted channel section having opposed flanks enveloping said angle section members of said lower profiled member and being extended inwardly by respective inwardly-directed ledges which extend below said outwardly extending webs of the respective angle section members of said lower profiled member; and

ball races facilitating sliding of said upper profiled member along said lower profiled member and defined between each said flank of said upper profiled member and the corresponding angle section member of said lower profiled member, the improvement which comprises;

a. each said flank of said lower profiled member defining with its corresponding arched portion and first web a downwardly open inverted channel, and

b. a jaw member embracing said upper profiled member and means securing said jaw member to said upper profiled member, said jaw member having a lateral lug constituting a lower anchoring point for a safety belt and respective walls which extend inwardly below the inwardly extending ledges of the upper profiled member and which terminate in respective turned up edges penetrating into the said downwardly open inverted channels provided by said lower profiled member.

2. A sliding runner according to claim 1 wherein the jaw member comprises two formed metal plates juxtaposed at one region constituting said lateral lug, one part of each said plate forming a said wall of said jaw member and one of said plates including an intermediate horizontal flange positioned directly above said upper profiled member and below said seat.

3. A sliding runner according to claim 1 further including abutment means limiting transverse movement of said jaw member.

4. A sliding runner according to claim 2 wherein said lateral lug is constituted by vertical longitudinal juxtaposed end portions of said two plates, said lateral lug having a transverse bore therethrough and a complementary internally threaded eyelet being fitted in said bore.

5. A sliding runner according to claim 4 wherein said seat has a casing and said threaded eyelet is supported directly on said casing.

6. A sliding runner according to claim 2 wherein said lateral lug is constituted by end portions of said two plates shaped to respective opposed semi-cylinders, said semi-cylinders being juxtaposed and forming a socket and said socket being threaded.

7. A sliding runner according to claim 6 wherein said seat has a casing, an abutment member being secured to said casing and extending transversely adjacent to said safety belt anchored on said jaw member.

8. A sliding runner according to claim 2 wherein the plate, other than said plate which includes said intermediate horizontal flange, has formed therein a reinforcing portion having the relief of a four pitched roof.

9. A sliding runner according to claim 2 including a soldered joint between said intermediate horizontal flange and said upper profiled member and a soldered joint between said plates where said plates are juxtaposed.