Vehicle seat with a longitudinal guide, with an adjustment of height or inclination, and with an attachment for seat belt lock

• US 4,790,597 A
• Filed: 10/29/1987
• Issued: 12/13/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/1986
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Firma C ROB Hammerstein GmbH, Daimler AG (Mercedes-Benz Group AG)
• Original Assignee: Firma C ROB Hammerstein GmbH, Daimler-Benz AG (Mercedes-Benz Group AG)
• Inventors: Koucky, Antonin, Bauer, Heinz, Becker, Burckhard, Frohnhaus, Ernst-Reiner, Klink, Josef, Gedig, Alfred
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US07/114,679
• Time in Patent Office: 411 Days
• Field of Search: 297/473, 297/468, 297/474, 297/480, 297/472, 248/429, 280/801
• US Class Current: 297/468
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 22/26 secured to the seat

Abstract

A seatbelt lock is mounted to be movable as little as possible relative to the seat surface when the seat surface is adjusted in height or inclination. The seat has a longitudinal guide 20, 22, a device 24 for adjustment of height or inclination and a belt lock attachment 32. The lower end of the belt lock attachment 32 is affixed to the seat rail 22 of the longitudinal guide and carries a belt lock 34 at its upper end. The belt lock attachment has a lower part 38 linked to the seat rail and an upper part 40 linked to the seat carrier 26, the upper part being connected with the belt lock. One of these parts 38, 40 can move freely in a longitudinal guide formed by the other part. One part has at least one locking projection 60; and the other part has locking devices 46 interacting with the projection. By means of a safety piece 50, the two parts are held in a normal position permitting movement. When extreme forces induced during an accident act on the belt, the safety piece is overridden, whereby the locking projection engages in the locking device and removed of the upper part from the lower part is precluded.

Claims

1. A vehicle seat, comprising:

a longitudinal guide with at least one floor rail (20) and seat rail (22),

a device (24) for adjustment of at least one of a height and an inclination of a seat surface (30) of the seat, located between a seat carrier (26) for the seat surface (30) and the seat rail (22),

a seatbelt lock attachment on an inboard side of the seat, a lower end of the seatbelt lock attachment being fastened to the seat rail (22) and an upper end of the seatbelt lock attachment supporting a seatbelt lock (34), which can accommodate a coupling piece (36) of a safety belt and is movable to said inboard side of the seat,

said seatbelt lock attachment (32) having a lower part (38) which is linked relative to the seat rail (22), and an upper part (40), which is linked relative to the seat carrier (26) and is connected with the seatbelt lock (34) such that one of the upper and lower parts can slide freely in a longitudinal guide defined by the other of said upper and lower parts, one of said upper and lower parts being provided with at least one stop projection and the other of said upper and lower parts having locking devices interacting with said stop projection, and further comprising a locking piece (50), holding the upper and lower parts (38,

     40) in a normal position which permits their free sliding relative movement, and the locking piece (50) being overriden by a force affecting the safety belt during an accident, whereupon the stop projection (60) engages in the locking devices and relative movement of the upper part (40) and the lower part (38) is thereby prevented, and wherein said lower part (38) is linked relative to the seat rail (22) via a rocker (88), linked to the seat rail.

2. The vehicle seat of claim 1, wherein the seat carrier (26) is linked to the seat rail (22) by means of the rocker (88), and the lower part (38) is connected to the rocker (88) at a linkage point (98) adjacent a linkage (42) between the rocker (88) and the seat rail (22).

3. The vehicle seat of claim 1, wherein the floor rail (20) is connected to a floor group (100) in a rear attachment area, a transversal part (42) connecting the lower part to the seat rail always being located in at least one of in front of and above the rear attachment area with a change of seat position, and never behind the rear attachment area.

4. The vehicle seat of claim 1, wherein the upper part (40) is affixed to the seat carrier (26) by means of the locking piece (50) such that the upper part cannot be turned.

5. The vehicle seat of claim 1, wherein the lower part (38) is linked to said rocker (88), connected thereto by means of a connection disposed at a shortest possible distance from a transversal piece (42) connecting said lower part (38) and said seat rail (22).

6. The vehicle seat of claim 1, further comprising an upper end stopper for one of the upper and lower parts, said one of the upper and lower parts forming a guide part, the end stopper being provided in the other of said upper and lower parts forming a guiding part, the end stopper defining a limit for relative displacement of the upper and lower parts.

7. The vehicle seat of claim 1, wherein the locking piece (50) is defined by an area of the upper part (40) which can be deformed, the locking piece being a separate safety piece.

8. The vehicle seat of claim 1, wherein the belt lock attachment (32) is symmetrical around a center line running through a transversal piece (42) connecting the lower part to the seat rail, and through an axle journal (56) connecting the upper part to the seat carrier.

9. The vehicle seat of claim 1, wherein the upper part (40) includes a carrier part (48) which is connected to the seatbelt lock (34) and forms an area (68) with fixed connection to the seatbelt lock (34), and at least one additional part supporting the stop projections (60), the additional part and the seatbelt lock being interconnected by means of a linkage.

10. The vehicle seat of claim 1, wherein the stop projections (60) are surrounded by a sheathing (66) which promotes relative sliding movement of the upper and lower parts, the sheathing being destroyed in case of overload.

11. The vehicle seat of claim 1, wherein the lower part (38) runs substantially perpendicular to the floor rail (20) and the seat rail (22).

12. The vehicle seat of claim 1, wherein the safety piece defines an edge area of a slot that can be widened (86).

13. The vehicle seat of claim 1, wherein the safety piece includes a part having a rated break point.