Safety arrangement for an adjustment installation of a seat adjustable manually or programmed

• US 4,523,136 A
• Filed: 04/16/1984
• Issued: 06/11/1985
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Daimler-Benz AG (Mercedes-Benz Group AG)
• Original Assignee: Daimler-Benz AG (Mercedes-Benz Group AG)
• Inventors: Dudeck, Ingo, Ruoff, Harald, Maass, Manfred, Hipp, Ulrich
• Primary Examiner(s): Dobeck, B.
• Application Number:
  US06/601,004
• Time in Patent Office: 421 Days
• Field of Search: 318/466, 318/467, 318/468, 318/568, 364/424, 296/63, 296/65
• US Class Current: 318/568.1
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0248 with memory of positions
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/4062 Monitoring servoloop, e.g. overload of servomotor, loss of feedback or reference
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/34337 Manual to automatic, tracer
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/42293 Regenerate faulty feedback by using previous value, substitute
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/42319 What kind of actuator failure
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/45022 Auto seat, dentist chair, roll wheel chair
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/50083 Power loss, measures again loss of power
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 9/02 electric

Abstract

A safety arrangement for an adjusting installation of a seat adapted to be actuated manually or programmed, especially of a vehicle seat, with adjusting motors and with an electronic circuit which gives priority to the manual seat adjustment over a programmed seat adjustment, which, in case of a relay or adjusting motor defect, opens up the corresponding circuit, which in case of a simultaneous actuation of several position buttons, interrupts a programmed seat adjustment and which after interruption of the energy supply permits a programmed seat adjustment only after renewed storage of a seat position.

Claims

1. A safety arrangement for an adjusting installation of a seat actuatable manually by manual adjusting buttons or programmed by way of position buttons, comprising one adjusting motor for each adjusting plane selectively controllable by way of contact means, of relay means, and a control logic circuit means including position memory means for storing certain seat positions by way of a memory button, characterized in that each adjusting motor is connected in a series circuit with relay contact means coordinated thereto, that all series circuits are connected in parallel and in that the parallel circuit is connected at its two interconnections in series with a change-over relay contact means which is connected in the normal position with one terminal and in the operating position with the other terminal of an energy source,

in that the relay means include energizing windings connected on one side directly with one terminal of the energy source and on the other side with the other terminal of the energy source, on the one hand, by way of a matrix means and the manual adjusting buttons and, on the other hand, by way of a series circuit including one transistor circuit means each controlled by the coordinated position button by way of the memory means and the control logic circuit means and coordinated to a corresponding relay means and of a transistor circuit means common to all relay means, the common transistor circuit means being conductive during actuation of a position button and being nonconductive with non-actuated buttons as well as with actuated manual adjusting buttons by themselves or together with position buttons,

in that a programmed seat adjustment is interrupted if in addition to the position button coordinated to the seat adjustment a further position button or a manual adjusting button is actuated causing energization of the relay means coordinated to the actuated manual adjusting button,

in that a manual seat adjustment is interrupted as long as the two manual adjusting buttons coordinated to the forward as also to the rearward movement of one and the same adjusting motor are simultaneously actuated, and

in that an energization of a relay means is interrupted during a programmed seat adjustment if, within a predetermined time interval, the actual value of the adjusting motor position coordinated to the relay means and detected by an actual value pick-up means is not changed.

2. A safety arrangement according to claim 1, characterized in that with a position memory means constructed as volatile memory, a programmed seat adjustment takes place after a disconnection and reconnection of the energy supply only after a renewed storing operation coordinated to the corresponding position button.

3. A safety arrangement according to claim 2, characterized in that for rendering the common transistor circuit means conductive and nonconductive by way of its control input, a multiple AND-element is provided having one input each coordinated to each manual adjusting button,

in that a first OR-element with one input coordinated to each position button is provided,

in that the output of the first OR-element is operatively connected with the output of the multiple AND-element by way of a resistance and diode,

and in that the point of connection between said resistance and diode is connected with the control input of the common transistor circuit means.

4. A safety arrangement according to claim 3, characterized in that for interrupting a programmed seat adjustment, a logic circuit means is provided which includes one input each coordinated to each position button and the memory button and with a further input, said logic circuit means being operable to produce an output signal to the control logic means if the memory button and a position button or at least two position buttons are actuated at the same time or if a signal exists at the further input.

5. A safety arrangement according to claim 4, characterized in that the logic circuit means includes for each combination of the memory button with a position button, on the one hand, and of two position buttons, on the other, one AND-element, and a second OR-element with one input for the output of each AND-element and for the further input, the output of said second OR-element being the output of the logic circuit means.

6. A safety arrangement according to claim 5, wherein the output of the multiple AND-element is connected with the further input of the logic circuit means either directly or by way of an inverter.

7. A safety arrangement according to claim 6, wherein said seat is a vehicle seat.

8. A safety arrangement according to claim 1, characterized in that for interrupting a programmed seat adjustment, a logic circuit means is provided which includes one input each coordinated to each position button and the memory button and with a further input, said logic circuit means being operable to produce an output signal to the control logic means if the memory button and a position button or at least two position buttons are actuated at the same time or if a signal exists at the furher input.

9. A safety arrangement according to claim 8, characterized in that the logic circuit means includes for each combination of the memory button with a position button, on the one hand, and of two position buttons, on the other, one AND-element, and an OR-element with one input for the output of each AND-element and for the further input, the output of said OR-element being the output of the logic circuit means.

10. A safety arrangement according to claim 9, wherein the output of the multiple AND-element is connected with the further input of the logic circuit means either directly or by way of an inverter.

11. A safety arrangement according to claim 9, characterized in that with a position memory means constructed as volatile memory, a programmed seat adjustment takes place after a disconnection and reconnection of the energy supply only after a renewed storing operation coordinated to the corresponding position button.