Position marking arrangement

• US 5,707,110 A
• Filed: 08/09/1996
• Issued: 01/13/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 08/04/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC (Ford Motor Company)
• Inventors: Campbell, Alan, Russell, Malcolm
• Primary Examiner(s): Nelson, Jr., Milton
• Application Number:
  US08/694,725
• Time in Patent Office: 522 Days
• Field of Search: 297/463.1, 297/463.2, 297/217.2, 297/344.1, 297/337, 40/320, 40/622, 248/429, 116/306, 116/307, 116/283, 116/281, 296/65.1
• US Class Current: 297/344.1
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/06 slidable B60N2/12 , B60N2/2209 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/123 and provided with memory locks

Abstract

A position marking arrangement for a slidable vehicle seat 10, 12. The seat includes a first component 18 which is slidable relative to a fixed, second component 16. The seat component 18 has a datum mark 24 thereon and the fixed seat slide 16 has a surface 22 such that relative movement takes place between the datum mark and the surface when the seat slides. The surface has holes 28 for mounting thereon a marker 30 in a range of different positions, and the seat can be moved to any one of the different positions, with the positions being marked by one or more markers 30.

Claims

1. A position marking arrangement in a seat mounted in a motor vehicle and slidably, longitudinally positionable between a plurality of discrete positions, the seat having a first component fixedly secured to the vehicle and a second component slidably mounted therein for movement between said positions, the position marking arrangement comprising:

means defining a datum mark on one of said components;

means defining a plurality of holes axially spaced along the other of said components and positioned to register with said datum mark at each of said positions; and

a plurality of marker plugs comprising differently colored pegs selectively engageable in said holes to identify relative position of said holes and said datum mark.

2. A position marking arrangement in a slidable vehicle seat in which the seat forms a first component which is slidable in an axial path relatively to a second component, wherein one of the first or second components has a datum mark thereon and the other of the first and second components has a surface such that relative movement takes place between the data mark and the surface when the seat slides, and wherein the surface has means for mounting a marker thereon in a range of different positions in the axial path of relative movement of said first and second components, said marker comprising differently colored pegs insertable into corresponding holes formed in said surface.

3. A position marking arrangement as in claim 2, wherein the datum mark is on the slidable seat, and the surface which carries the marker mounting means is on the second component.

4. A position marking arrangement as in claim 2, wherein the surface is part of a shroud which conceals a stationary element of the vehicle seat.