Inner memory slide for adjusting a vehicle seat, the inner memory cooperating with the fixed profile member of the slide

• US 5,407,165 A
• Filed: 09/22/1993
• Issued: 04/18/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Bertrand Faure Automobile
• Original Assignee: Bertrand Faure Automobile
• Inventors: Balocke, Francis
• Primary Examiner(s): Chin-Shue, Alvin C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): CHAN, KO HUNG
• Application Number:
  US08/126,161
• Time in Patent Office: 573 Days
• Field of Search: 248/429, 248/424, 248/430, 297/344.1, 297/340, 296/65.1
• US Class Current: 248/429
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/123 and provided with memory locks

Abstract

The inner memory comprises an arm with a rear nose and a front notch and is at rest in an inner lower portion of the fixed lower profile member. The lower fixed profile member has a first inner toothing for cooperating with the rear nose of the memory. A first L-shaped lever ending into a nose is articulated via a first articulation pin on an angle bracket mounted on the mobile upper profile member and has a finger below the first articulating pin. The angle bracket carries a second articulation pin for both an actuating bar and a second L-shaped lever ending into a nose for cooperating with the notch of the memory. The actuating bar is designed to bear on the latch under the effect of the finger of the first L-shaped lever when the first lever is pivoted by a control device. A further control device is provided to pivot the actuating bar and the second L-shaped lever so as to release respectively the latch and the memory simultaneously.

Claims

1. An inner memory slide for adjusting a vehicle seat, said inner memory slide comprising:

a fixed lower profile member having a first and a second toothing;

a mobile upper profile member for receiving a vehicle seat, said mobile upper profile member slidably connected to said fixed lower profile member, said mobile upper profile member having a pivotable latch with a comb toothing;

said comb toothing of said latch, in a latched position of said latch, engaging said second toothing of said lower fixed profile member for arresting said mobile upper profile member at said lower fixed profile member;

a memory means for longitudinally adjusting said mobile upper profile member relative to said lower fixed profile member by engaging and releasing said first toothing, said memory means comprising an arm with a rear nose and a front notch, said rear nose cooperating with said first toothing;

an angle bracket mounted on said mobile upper profile member, said angle bracket having a first and a second articulation pin;

a first L-shaped lever fixedly connected with a first end to said first articulation pin and having a finger connected to said first end under said articulation pin, said L-shaped lever having a nose-shaped second end;

a second L-shaped lever fixedly connected to said second articulation pin and having a free end in the form of a nose, said nose cooperating with said front notch of said memory means for releasing said rear nose from said first toothing;

an actuating bar fixedly connected to said second articulation pin;

a first control means for pivoting said second L-shaped lever and said actuating bar from a rest position into a release position for releasing said memory means from said first toothing and said latch from said second toothing; and

a second control means for pivoting said first L-shaped lever so as to activate with said finger said actuating bar for releasing said latch from said second toothing.

2. An inner memory slide according to claim 1, wherein said latch comprises a spring for returning said latch into said latched position after release of said first control means, thereby also returning said second L-shaped lever and said actuating bar into said rest position.

3. An inner memory slide according to claim 1, wherein said second control means is activated by folding a back portion of the vehicle seat onto a seat portion of the vehicle seat such that said second control means pivots said first L-shaped lever so as to activate with said finger said actuating bar.

4. An inner memory slide according to claim 1, wherein said memory means has a zone with a front end and wherein said nose-shaped second end engages said front end for returning said first L-shaped lever upon release of said second control means.

5. An inner memory slide according to claim 1, wherein said memory means is positioned partially inside said slide and partially on an inner face of said slide.