Vehicle seat, especially for commercial vehicles

• US 5,388,801 A
• Filed: 09/14/1992
• Issued: 02/14/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Keiper Recaro GmbH & Company
• Original Assignee: Keiper Recaro GmbH & Company
• Inventors: Armbrust, Karl-Peter, Franzmann, Gunter, Edrich, Hans
• Primary Examiner(s): Rada, Rinaldi I.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Dexter, Clark F.
• Application Number:
  US07/944,272
• Time in Patent Office: 883 Days
• Field of Search: 248/421, 248/157, 248/277, 248/419, 248/561, 248/564, 248/565, 248/588, 297/344.15, 297/344.16, 297/344.17, 297/423.45, 108/145, 108/147
• US Class Current: 248/564
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/502 attached to the base of the seat B60N2/504 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/508 Scissors-like structure
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/525 using gas

Abstract

A seat for vehicles, especially commercial vehicles, of which the cushion support is mounted on a swinging frame with two identically configured pairs of levers which intersect and pivot with each other, has on each side of the swinging frame at least one fastening point for a seat belt system. Pivot connections combined with a guide for each one running longitudinally along the seat connect the rear terminal segments of the rocking levers with the lower part and the upper part of the swinging frame. The rocking levers extending from the upper part of the swinging frame obliquely forward and downward are embodied with a diminished carrying capacity as compared with the other rocking levers.

Claims

1. A seat for vehicles, especially for commercial vehicles, having seat supporting means and a cushion support, said seat being capable of swinging and comprising:

a swinging frame including;

a base part formed as a lower frame and supported by said seat supporting means and having a front and a rear and including a pair of substantially parallel opposedly mounted lower girders forming lower side girders of the lower frame,

an upper part supporting said cushion support, said upper part formed as an upper frame and having a front and a rear and including a pair of substantially parallel opposedly mounted upper girders forming upper side girders of the upper frame,

two scissor-like crosshead devices, one provided at each respective side of said swinging frame, each having a pivot axis transverse to said upper and lower side girders, said crosshead devices disposed between said lower base part and said upper part, each of said crosshead devices comprising a higher carrying capacity member formed by a pair of rocking levers, each rocking lever of said pair arranged parallel and adjacent to each other, and a lower carrying capacity member formed by a single rocking lever disposed between and pivotally attached to said pair of rocking levers of said higher carrying capacity member, each of said rocking levers having an upper end and a lower end, said upper ends of all said rocker levers being pivotally connected to said upper girders and said lower ends of all said rocking levers being pivotally connected to said lower girders.

2. The seat as in claim 1, further comprising a fastening means for a seat belt system, said fastening means being disposed at the rear of said swinging frame upper part.

3. The seat as defined in claim 1, wherein the rocking levers are in the form of flat rails and are of identical thickness.

4. The seat as in claim 1, further comprising damping means for damping oscillation between said swinging frame parts, said damping means being disposed between said swinging frame upper part and said lower base part.

5. The seat as defined in claim 1, wherein said higher carrying capacity rocking levers extend obliquely upwardly from said rear of said lower base part to said front of said upper part and said lower carrying capacity rocking levers extend obliquely downwardly from said rear of said upper part to said front of said lower base part, wherein further the front ends of said lower carrying capacity rocking levers are connected with said front of said lower base part such that they are immovable in a direction along said lower side girders and the front ends of said higher carrying capacity rocking levers are connected with said front of said upper part such that they are immovable in a direction along said upper side girders, and wherein further the rear ends of said lower carrying capacity rocking levers are movably guided by and along said upper side girders and the rear ends of said higher carrying capacity rocking levers are movably guided by and along said lower side girders.

6. The seat as defined in claim 5, said rocking levers each having a front and a rear terminal segment, said terminal segments each including a pivot end and each of said pivot ends of the terminal segments at one side of said swinging frame are in alignment along respective pivot axis with a corresponding one of the pivot ends of corresponding terminal segments at the other side of said swinging frame, and wherein each of the aligned pivot ends of the terminal segments are immovably connected with a respective shaft which extends along the respective pivot axis, each shaft forming a pivotal connection with a respective one of said upper and lower side girders, wherein front shafts are connected to the front terminal segments and are mounted only pivotally in said side girders and rear shafts are connected to the rear terminal segments and are mounted to said side girders such that they are part of a combined pivot and thrust bearing connection with said side girders, said side girders being in the form of U-shaped rails running in a longitudinal direction along the seat, each end of said rear shafts supporting a rotating tread roller such that said tread rollers are each guided in one of said U-shaped rails.

7. The seat as defined in claim 6, wherein the pivot connections of said shafts have some axial play.

8. The seat as defined in claim 7, wherein the front shaft mounted in said lower part supports a roller at each of its two ends, said rollers engaging in the U-shaped rails forming the two side girders of the lower part, said shaft secured against a longitudinal thrust along the lower side girders by at least one fixed bearing of the lower part, said fixed bearing being detachable for the purpose of provision of a horizontal spring thrust.

9. The seat as defined in claim 8, wherein said cushion support is supported by a height adjusting device, which is supported by said upper part of said swinging frame.

10. The seat as defined in claim 9, wherein:

a) the height adjusting device has a front and a rear pivot arm on each side of the seat;

b) both of said front pivot arms and both of said rear pivot arms are connected pivotally coaxially with the swinging frame upper part and with the cushion support upper part; and

c) the two rear pivot arms are connected by means of two adjusting gearings which are driven only commonly and synchronously by driving means.