Motor vehicle seat with a back rest and a seat

• US 5,979,985 A
• Filed: 11/10/1997
• Issued: 11/09/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 11/11/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: C ROB Hammerstein GmbH & Company KG (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Original Assignee: C ROB Hammerstein GmbH & Company KG (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Inventors: Bauer, Heinz, Becker, Burckhard, Frohnhaus, Ernst-Reiner
• Primary Examiner(s): Cuomo, Peter M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): WHITE, RODNEY BARNETT
• Application Number:
  US08/966,610
• Time in Patent Office: 729 Days
• Field of Search: 297/340, 297/316, 297/322, 297/344.15
• US Class Current: 297/340
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/1615 Parallelogram-like structure
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/1695 with simultaneous height and inclination adjustment
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/1814 Parallelogram-like structure
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/1846 pivoting about a distant axis, e.g. virtual

Abstract

The invention relates to a motor vehicle seat with a back rest and a seat which is supported by an adjustable underframe, which itself is supported via seat carriers of a longitudinal adjustment device. The back rest is supported by a back rest support, which is connected with the back rest via a back rest mounting. The back rest support is joined in a hinge with the seat carriers via front and back brackets of the back rest support and the seat is joined in a hinge with the seat carriers via front and back brackets of the seat support in an adjustable way.

Claims

1. A motor vehicle seat having a back rest and a seat, said seat comprising seat carriers, said seat carriers being supported by an adjustable under frame comprising a pair of front brackets of a seat support and a pair of back brackets of the seat support, said under frame being supported by said seat carriers of a longitudinal adjustment device, said back rest being supported by a back rest support via a back hinge mounting for pivoting the back rest relative to the back rest support, said back rest support having a pair of front brackets of the back rest support and a pair of rear brackets of the back rest support and being adjustably hinged to said seat carriers by said pair of front brackets of the back rest support and said pair of rear brackets of the back rest support.

2. The motor vehicle seat according to claim 1 wherein one of said two pairs of brackets of the back rest support is movably connected with one of said two pairs of brackets of the seat support.

3. The motor vehicle seat according to claim 2 further comprising a link wherein said pair of back brackets of the back rest support is connected to said pair of back brackets of the seat support by said link.

4. The motor vehicle seat according to claim 1 wherein said pair of back brackets of the back rest support creates an angle of 10 to 60 degrees with said pair of back brackets of the seat support, and said pair of back brackets of the back rest support runs in an angle to said seat carriers that is always larger than an angle that said pair of back brackets of the seat support creates with said seat carriers.

5. The motor vehicle seat according to claim 1 wherein if said seat is positioned in a most backward position said pair of back brackets of the seat support creates an angle with said seat carriers that is smaller than 20 degrees and that said angle becomes larger if said seat is moved from said most backward position to a position more forward.

6. The motor vehicle seat according to claim 1 wherein said back rest is positioned in a most backward position said pair of back brackets of the seat support creates and angle with said seat carriers that is larger than 30 degrees and that said angle becomes larger if said backrest is moved from said most backward position to a position more forward.

7. The motor vehicle seat according to claim 1 wherein said pair of back brackets of the back rest support and said pair of back brackets of the seat support have total lengths that differ by about less than 20%.

8. The motor vehicle seat according to claim 1 wherein said pair of front brackets of the back rest support and said pair of front brackets of the seat support have total lengths that differ by about less than 20%.

9. The motor vehicle seat according to claim 1 wherein said two pairs of brackets of the back rest support and said two pairs of brackets of the seat support have total lengths that differ by about less than 20%.

10. The motor vehicle seat according to claim 1 wherein said pair of front brackets of the back rest support and said pair of front brackets of the seat support are positioned towards each other in an angle smaller than 20 degrees.

11. The motor vehicle seat according to claim 1 wherein said pair of front brackets of the back rest support and said pair of front brackets of the seat support are positioned towards each other in an angle smaller than 20 degrees.

12. The motor vehicle seat according to claim 1 wherein one of said two pairs of brackets of the back rest support is connected in a rigid manner with one of said two pairs of brackets of the seat support.

13. The motor vehicle seat according to claim 12 wherein said pair of back brackets of the back rest support is connected in a rigid manner with said two pair of back brackets of the seat support.