Lifting mechanism of vehicle seat

• US 8,807,507 B2
• Filed: 07/20/2011
• Issued: 08/19/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/03/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd. (Aisin Corp.), Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd. (Aisin Corp.), Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Hadatsuki, Teruyuki, Masuda, Satoshi, Ito, Tsutomu, Kuwayama, Shunsuke, Terada, Shou
• Primary Examiner(s): Epps, Todd M
• Application Number:
  US13/186,840
• Publication Number:
  US 20120032057A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,126 Days
• Field of Search: 248/421, 248/422, 248/424, 248/419, 296/65.15, 296/68.1, 297/216.1, 297/216.2, 297/344.15
• US Class Current: 248/421
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/1615 Parallelogram-like structure
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/1685 characterised by a lock
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/169 Stepwise movement mechanisms, e.g. ratchets B60N2/167 takes precedence

Abstract

A lifting mechanism of a vehicle seat for adjusting a seating height position of the vehicle seat is provided. The lifting mechanism includes a lifter link having one side that is rotatably shaft-supported to a floor-side member provided on a vehicle floor and the other side that rotatably shaft-supports a frame member of a seating-side configuring part for seating; and a stopper link having one side that is rotatably shaft-supported to the floor-side member and the other side that is loosely fitted in a long hole formed in the lifter link. A rotation of the lifter link in a rear direction is restrained by a loosely fitted portion of the stopper link contacting an inner circumferential part of the long hole. A rotation of the lifter link in a front direction is restrained by a restraining contract part provided to the lifter link contacting a stopper part provided to the floor-side member. The restraining contact part is provided at a further outer side in a rotationally radial direction than a position of a front-side end portion of the long hole, with respect to a rotatable shaft support point of the one side of the lifter link.

Claims

1. A lifting mechanism of a vehicle seat for adjusting a seating height position of the vehicle seat, the lifting mechanism comprising:

a lifter link having a first side that is rotatably shaft-supported with respect to a floor-side member provided on a vehicle floor and a second side that rotatably shaft-supports a frame member of a seating-side configuring part for seating; and

a stopper link having a first side that is rotatably shaft-supported with respect to the floor-side member and a second side that is loosely fitted in a long hole defined in the lifter link,

wherein a rotation of the lifter link in a rear direction due to the seating-side configuring part applying load toward a rear side of the seat is restrained by a loosely fitted portion of the stopper link contacting an inner circumferential part of the long hole,

wherein a rotation of the lifter link in a front direction due to the seating-side configuring part applying load toward a front side of the seat is restrained by a restraining contact part provided to the lifter link contacting a stopper part provided to the floor-side member, and

wherein a rear-side end portion of the restraining contact part, which contacts the stopper part, is provided at a further outer side in a rotationally radial direction than a position of a front-side end portion of the long hole, with respect to a rotatable shaft support point of the first side of the lifter link.

2. The lifting mechanism according to claim 1,

wherein the long hole is provided such that the loosely fitted portion of the stopper link is out of contact with the inner circumferential part of the long hole even when the restraining contact part provided to the lifter link contacts the stopper part provided to the floor-side member.

3. The lifting mechanism according to claim 1,

wherein the restraining contact part is configured by a side end portion of a flange-shaped support part, which is a bent end of the lifter link in thea seat width direction, the bent end of the lifter link extending in a direction different from an extending direction of the long hole, and

wherein the stopper part protrudes in a flange shape from the floor-side member in the seat width direction such that a contact surface, to which the restraining contact part is contacted in a direction intersecting with an extending direction of the restraining contact part, is defined.

4. The lifting mechanism according to claim 1, wherein the restraining contact part provided to the lifter link extends in a seat width direction toward the stopper link.

5. The lifting mechanism according to claim 1, wherein the floor-side member is provided between the lifter link and the stopper link in a seat width direction.

6. The lifting mechanism according to claim 1, wherein the lifter link is a metal plate, the restraining contact part is a bent end of the metal plate of the lifter link in the seat width direction, and an edge face of the restraining contact part is configured to contact the stopper part.