Seat raiser for spacing a seat rail from the vehicle floor

• US 8,807,508 B2
• Filed: 07/25/2012
• Issued: 08/19/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Company KG Coburg
• Original Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Company KG Coburg
• Inventors: Ferenc, Anthony, Bhat, Anil
• Primary Examiner(s): Duckworth, Bradley
• Application Number:
  US13/557,883
• Publication Number:
  US 20130026328A1
• Time in Patent Office: 755 Days
• Field of Search: 248/429, 296/63, 296/65.11, 296/65.13, 297/216.2
• US Class Current: 248/429
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/07 Slide construction
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0705 omega-shaped
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/682 Joining means

Abstract

A seat raiser for spacing a seat rail of a motor vehicle seat from a vehicle floor is provided. The seat raiser comprising a welding portion which includes at least one specified welding point and is formed and provided to weld the seat rail to the seat raiser at the welding point and a fastening portion which includes at least one specified fastening point and is formed and provided to fasten the seat raiser to the vehicle floor at the fastening point. The seat raiser is formed substantially L-shaped in cross-section and the welding portion and the fastening portion each form a leg of the L-shape. The welding portion includes exactly two specified welding points spaced from each other, via which the seat raiser is to be welded to the seat rail.

Claims

1. A seat raiser for spacing a seat rail of a motor vehicle seat from a vehicle floor comprising:

a welding portion which includes exactly two specified welding points and is configured to accommodate by a weld a bottom side of the seat rail at the welding point, and

a fastening portion which includes at least one specified fastening point and is formed and provided to fasten the seat raiser at the fastening point to the vehicle floor,

wherein the seat raiser is formed substantially L-shaped in cross-section and the welding portion forms a first leg of the L-shape and the fastening portion forms a second leg of the L-shape, and

wherein the exactly two specified welding points are spaced from each other and via which the seat raiser is welded to the bottom side of the seat rail.

2. The seat raiser according to claim 1, wherein when the seat raiser is connected with the seat rail, the welding portion extends substantially vertically and the fastening portion extending transversely thereto and extends substantially horizontally.

3. The seat raiser according to claim 1, wherein the welding portion is longer than the fastening portion.

4. The seat raiser according to claim 1, wherein the two welding points are offset with respect to each other.

5. The seat raiser according to claim 4, wherein the two welding points are offset to each other with respect to a longitudinal axis which extends substantially parallel to an imaginary first plane defined by the fastening portion and parallel to an imaginary second plane defined by the welding portion.

6. The seat raiser according to claim 1, wherein the two welding points are arranged spaced from each other and one behind the other with respect to a longitudinal direction along which the seat rail extends when the seat raiser is welded to the seat rail.

7. The seat raiser according to claim 6, wherein the welding points furthermore are spaced from each other transversely to the longitudinal direction and thereby are formed on the welding portion offset to each other.

8. The seat raiser according to claim 1, wherein the welding portion comprises at least one more specified connecting point for a component of the vehicle seat.

9. A vehicle seat assembly with at least one seat rail by which a vehicle seat can longitudinally shiftably be mounted relative to a vehicle floor, and comprising at least one seat raiser according to claim 1, via which the seat rail is spaced from the vehicle floor and to which the seat rail is welded on the two welding points of the seat raiser.

10. The vehicle seat assembly according to claim 9, wherein the two welding points of the seat raiser, at which the seat rail is welded to the seat raiser, are arranged one behind the other in a direction of longitudinal extension of the seat rail.

11. The vehicle seat assembly according to claim 9, wherein the two welding points of the seat raiser, at which the seat rail is welded to the seat raiser, are offset to each other with respect to a direction of longitudinal extension of the seat rail.

12. The vehicle seat assembly according to claim 9, wherein the fastening portion extends substantially transversely to a direction of longitudinal extension of the seat rail.