Vehicle seat

• US 4,174,088 A
• Filed: 10/18/1977
• Issued: 11/13/1979
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: ITT Industries (ITT, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: ITT Industries (ITT, Inc.)
• Inventors: Schaefer, Peter, Doerre, Wolfgang
• Primary Examiner(s): Staab, Lawrence J.
• Application Number:
  US05/843,191
• Time in Patent Office: 756 Days
• Field of Search: 248/393, 248/394, 248/395, 248/396, 248/419, 248/420, 248/397
• US Class Current: 248/395
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/02246 Electric motors therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0705 omega-shaped
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0715 C or U-shaped
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0825 outside the rail
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0875 in a vertical direction

Abstract

There is disclosed an adjusting mechanism for a vehicle seat which is adjustable in guideways in the longitudinal direction and whose inclination is variable by another adjusting device. In this arrangement, the adjusting device for longitudinal adjustment is automatically coupled with the adjusting device for inclination adjustment. This coupling is achieved by a train of toothed gears having a shaft associated with the longitudinal adjustment and another shaft associated with the inclination adjustment.

Claims

1. A vehicle seat which is adjustable in the longitudinal direction by a first adjustment device including two spaced guideways and the inclination of which is adjustable by a second adjustment device comprising:

a train of toothed gears for automatically coupling together said first and second adjustment devices; and

an adjusting lug associated with one of said two spaced guideways supporting two shafts 16 and 19 and an adjusting shaft 9 which effects the inclination adjustment, said two shafts 16 and 19 and said adjusting shaft 9 cooperate with each other by means of a plurality of gears, one of said plurality of gears being in mesh with a rack 14 of said one of said two spaced guideways;

said two shafts including a first shaft 16 having a first gear 15 and a second gear 17 and a second shaft 19 having a third gear 18 and a fourth gear 20, said second shaft 19 being axially displaceable with respect to said third gear 18 and said fourth gear 20 and said first shaft 16 being displaceable with respect to said first gear 15 which is in mesh with said rack 14, said second gear 17 being carried along;

said fourth gear 20 being in mesh with a gear 21 of said adjusting shaft 9, while said third gear 18 in the initial position is in mesh with said second gear 17 which is axially fixed to said first shaft 16;

a disk carried by said second shaft 19 having a projection thereon to engage on elongated hole is said third gear 18; and

a locking device to secure said disk from twisting upon axial displacement of said first shaft 16 and said second shaft 19.

2. A vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein

said locking device includes

a first profile ring rigidly fastened to a side wall of said adjusting lug, and

a corresponding second profile ring of said disk.

3. A vehicle seat according to claim 2, further including

a third profile ring on said second shaft 19 by means of which said disk is connected with said second shaft 19 in the initial position to secure said disk against twisting.