Seat for motor vehicles

• US 4,787,594 A
• Filed: 03/02/1987
• Issued: 11/29/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujikiko Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Fujikiko Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Yamamoto, Akihisa, Uesugi, Makoto, Nakamura, Shinya, Ikegaya, Isao
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US07/020,698
• Time in Patent Office: 638 Days
• Field of Search: 297/313, 248/421, 248/422, 248/396
• US Class Current: 248/421
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/02246 Electric motors therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/1615 Parallelogram-like structure
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/165 Gear wheel driven mechanism
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/1675 with weight compensating means
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/1803 with independent front and/or rear adjustment
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/181 Rods
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/1864 Gear wheel driven mechanism
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/1885 with weight compensating means

Abstract

A seat for motor vehicle includes a seat cushion whose rear or front section or both are coupled via a link mechanism with a base frame in a manner that can be lifted and lowered, whereby through joining of the link mechanism to a control shaft for height adjustment that can be rotated without any limitation, coupling of one of the rocking ends of a bell crank which repeats a rocking motion, interlocked with the rotation of the control shaft, to the seat cushion, and joining of the other rocking end to the control shaft via a crank, it is possible to adjust the height of the rear section, front section, or both, of the cushion seat between the lowest position and the highest position, for every rocking operation of the bell crank.

Claims

1. A seat for motor vehicles having an elevation mechanism for the rear side of the seat, which comprises:

a base frame adapted to be arranged on a floor surface of a vehicle body, said base frame having a front section and a rear section;

a cushion frame having front and rear portions, the front portion of said cushion frame being supported rockably on the front section of said base frame;

a control shaft rotated by drive means;

a bell crank having two rocking ends, said bell crank being rockably supported on the rear section of said base frame, with one of said rocking ends being coupled with the rear portion of said cushion frame;

crank means for imparting the rotation of said control shaft to said bell crank in a manner such that during one rotation of said crank means, said bell crank performs one rocking motion, said crank means having a crank pin; and

coupling means having two ends, one of said ends being coupled with the crank pin of said crank means and the other of said ends being coupled with the other rocking end of said bell crank.

2. A seat for motor vehicles as set forth in claim 1, wherein a pinion gear is provided on said control shaft, and said crank means comprises a spur gear on which said crank pin is eccentrically provided, said spur gear being engaged with said pinion gear so as to be rotated in accordance with the rotation of said pinion gear.

7. The vehicle seat as claimed in any one of claims 1, 3 or 5 wherein said base frame consists of a pair of frame members that are located on the left and on the right which support respectively the left and right sides of the cushion frame as can be raised and lowered, a bell crank is mounted rockably on one of said base frame members via a pivotally supporting shaft, one of the rocking ends of the bell crank is connected to one side section of said cushion frame, the other end of the pivotally supporting shaft is supported by the other of said base frame members, and further, on the side of the other end of the pivotally supporting shaft there is provided a link that is interlocked with the bell crank and coupled with the other side section of said cushion frame.

8. A seat for motor vehicle as claimed in any one of claims 1, 3 or 5, wherein said crank is formed by projecting a crankpin on an end surface of a flat gear, and the flat gear is interlocked with a pinion on the control shaft.

9. A seat for motor vehicle as claimed in any one of claims 1, 3 or 5, wherein there is provided a knob for manual rotational operation as a united body to an end projected from the base frame, of the control shaft.

10. A seat for motor vehicle as claimed in any one of claims 1, 3 or 5, wherein there is connected an output terminal of a motor unit to the end, projected from the base frame, of the control shaft.

11. A seat for motor vehicle as claimed in any one of claims 1, 3 or 5, wherein there is also provided a reclining device for adjusting the angle of a seat back on one side in the rear section of the base frame.

3. A seat for motor vehicles having an elevation mechanism for the front side of the seat, which comprises:

a base frame adapted to be arranged on a floor surface of a vehicle body, said base frame having a front section and a rear section;

a cushion frame having front and rear portions, the rear portion of said cushion frame being supported rockably on the rear section of said base frame;

a control shaft rotated by drive means;

a bell crank having two rocking ends, said bell crank being rockably supported on the front section of said base frame, with one of said rocking ends being coupled with the front section of said cushion frame;

crank means for imparting the rotation of said control shaft to said bell crank in a manner such that during one rotation of said crank means, said bell crank performs one rocking motion, said crank means having a crank pin; and

coupling means having two ends, and one of said ends being coupled with the crank pin of said crank means and the other of said ends being coupled with the other rocking end of said bell crank.

4. A seat for motor vehicles as set forth in claim 3, wherein a pinion gear is provided on said control shaft, and said crank means comprises a spur gear on which said crank pin is eccentrically provided, said spur gear being engaged with said pinion gear so as to be rotated in accordance with the rotation of said pinion gear.

6. A seat for motor vehicle as claimed in any one of claims 3 or 5, wherein the front side elevating mechanism is given a construction in which its upper part is coupled with said cushion frame and its lower part is coupled with an appropriate part of said crank.

5. A seat for motor vehicles having elevation mechanisms for rear and front sides of the seat, which comprises:

a base frame adapted to be arranged on a floor surface of a vehicle body, said base frame having a front section and a rear section;

a cushion frame having front and rear portions, the front and rear portions of said cushion frame being supported rockably on the front and rear sections of said base frame, respectively;

a first control shaft rotated by first drive means;

a first bell crank having two rocking ends, said first bell crank being rockably supported by the rear section of said base frame, one of said rocking ends being coupled with the rear portion of said cushion frame;

first crank means for imparting the rotation of said first control shaft to said first bell crank in a manner such that during one rotation of said first crank means said first bell crank performs one rocking motion, said first crank means having a crank pin;

first coupling means having two first ends, one of said first ends being coupled with said crank pin of said first crank means and the other of said first ends being coupled with the other rocking end of said first bell crank;

a second control shaft rotated by second drive means;

a second bell crank having two rocking ends, said second bell crank being rockably supported by the front section of said base frame, one of said rocking ends being coupled with said cushion frame;

second crank means for imparting the rotation of said second control shaft to said second bell crank in a manner such that during one rotation of said second crank means, said second bell crank perform one rocking motion, said second crank means having a crank pin; and

second coupling means having two second ends, one of said second ends being coupled with said second crank pin of said second crank means and the other second end being coupled with the other rocking end of said second bell crank.