Slide device for an automotive seat

• US 4,756,503 A
• Filed: 11/04/1986
• Issued: 07/12/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Tachi-S Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Tachi-S Company Limited
• Inventors: Fujita, Yasuyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Talbott, David L.
• Application Number:
  US06/927,357
• Time in Patent Office: 616 Days
• Field of Search: 248/430, 248/419, 248/420, 248/424, 248/425, 248/429, 384/10, 384/18, 384/19, 384/47, 384/42, 384/37, 384/38, 384/34, 297/344, 297/346, 297/473, 296/65 R, 296/63
• US Class Current: 248/430
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0705 omega-shaped
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0707 J-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 slide device for use in an automotive seat which is capable of adjusting the positions of the seat forwardly and backwardly. In the slide device, an upper rail provided on the side of the seat is slidably mounted via a slider to a lower rail provided on the side of floor of the automobile. The slider comprises a plate spring which is provided with a plurality of projected portions in the portions thereof where the slider is brought into contact with the upper rail. That is, the projected portions of the plate spring prevents the generation of play of the upper rail in the vertical direction as well as in the right and left direction thereof.

Claims

1. A slide device for use in an automotive seat comprising:

an upper rail including two belt-shaped bottom portions, a mounting portion extending upward from one of the longitudinal-direction edges of one of said bottom portions, and two side portions respectively extending upward substantially at right angles from the opposite edges of said two bottom portions, and in the longitudinal direction thereof, said mounting portion being disposed in said bottom portion, between said side portions;

a lower rail including a support portion respectively located below said two bottom portions of said upper rail, and two engagement portions of a substantially U-shaped section into which said side portions of said upper rail, which extend vertically upward at right angles from opposite edges of said bottom portion, are respectively inserted from the first longitudinal-direction edges of said support portion; and

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a pair of sliders each interposed between said engagement portion of said lower rail and said side portion of said upper rail, characterized in that each of said sliders is formed of a plate spring provided with a plurality of resilient projected portions which are disposed at positions corresponding to the right, left, and top portions of each of said side portions of said upper rail such that they are expanded out in the direction of each of said engagement interfaces with said lower rail.

2. A slide device for use in an automotive seat as set forth in claim 1, wherein there is provided a roller between said bottom portions of said upper rail and said lower rail, and wherein a reclining device and a lifter for moving up and down a seat cushion frame are mounted to said mounting portion of said upper rail.

3. A slide device for use in an automotive seat as set forth in claim 1, wherein an anchor of a seat belt is fixed to the mounting portion of said upper rail.

4. A slide device for use in an automotive seat as set forth in claim 1, wherein said bottom portions, mounting portions and side portions of said upper rail are formed of the same material.

5. A slide device for use in an automotive seat as set forth in claim 1, wherein said side portions of said upper rail each is provided at the two longitudinal ends thereof with projected portions formed integrally with said side portions to prevent said slider to be mounted to its associated upper rail side portion from slipping off out of position.

6. A slide device for use in an automotive seat as set forth in claim 1, wherein said projected portions provided in said sliders are projections which are independent of one another.

7. A slide device for use in an automotive seat as set forth in claim 1, wherein said projected portions provided in said sliders are formed in a semi-cylindrical shape which is longer in the longitudinal direction of said slider.