Motor vehicle seat

• US 9,050,909 B2
• Filed: 02/24/2010
• Issued: 06/09/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Company KG Coburg
• Original Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Company KG Coburg
• Inventors: Rhnert, Nick, Suck, Wolfgang, Steffen, Oliver, GleiBerg, Marco, Neumann, Guido
• Primary Examiner(s): BARFIELD, ANTHONY DERRELL
• Application Number:
  US13/203,204
• Publication Number:
  US 20120019037A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,931 Days
• Field of Search: 297/340, 297/341
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0818 inside the rail
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0831 Movement of the latch
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/123 and provided with memory locks
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/20 the back-rest being tiltable, e.g. to permit easy access B60N2/04, B60N2/22 , B60N2/3002 take precedence

Abstract

The invention relates to a motor vehicle seat comprising a seat sub-frame adjustable along a rail longitudinal guide to which a backrest is hinged in a pivoting manner and can be folded forward toward a seating surface of the seat sub-frame, a locking device for arresting the rail longitudinal guide in an adjustable seating longitudinal position, an entry aid by means of which the locking device is released, when the backrest is folded forward to the seating surface and a memory arrangement for adjusting and restoring a memory position having a position memory that has an adjustment means for adjusting the memory position in the rail longitudinal direction of the rail longitudinal guide and a locking element that is connected to the adjustment means in a pivoting manner that under the effect of a control element can be pivoted in a locking rail for locking the adjusted memory position and pivoted out of the locking rail for adjusting a memory position and is connected to the adjustment means via a slotted guide such that a virtual point of rotation of the locking element lies underneath the rail profile of the locking rail.

Claims

1. A motor vehicle seat comprising:

a seat sub-frame adjustable along a rail longitudinal guide to which a backrest is pivotably hinged and is foldable in a direction towards a seating surface of the seat sub-frame,

a locking device for arresting the rail longitudinal guide in an adjustable seating longitudinal position,

an entry aid via which the locking device is releasable when the backrest is folded towards the seating surface, and

a memory arrangement for adjusting and retrieving a memory position with a position memory that has an adjuster for adjusting the memory position in the rail longitudinal direction of the rail longitudinal guide and a locking element that is pivotably connected to the adjuster, wherein said locking element can be pivoted in a locking rail for locking the adjusted memory position under the effect of a control element and can be pivoted out of the locking rail for adjusting a memory position,

wherein the locking element is connected to the adjuster via a slotted guide such that a virtual point of rotation of the locking element lies underneath a rail profile of the locking rail, and

wherein the slotted guide comprises at least two slotted guide sections, wherein the virtual point of rotation of the locking element is determined by an intersection of normals of the at least two slotted guide sections.

2. The motor vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein:

an engagement area is provided on the bottom side of the locking element, wherein said engagement area engages with at least one locking position of the locking rail for adjusting a memory position,

a control surface extends on an upper side of the locking element, wherein via said control surface the locking element interacts with the control element such that the locking element engages either with its engagement area into the locking position of the locking rail and locks the memory arrangement in a certain seating longitudinal position or is lifted for displacement of the memory arrangement for a new adjustment of a memory position in a rail longitudinal direction out of the locking rail,

the locking element is supported via an elastic element by the adjuster and is preloaded in a direction to the locked state, and

the locking element comprises, at at least one side surface, path curves of the slotted guide interacting with the guide elements of the adjuster.

3. The motor vehicle seat according to claim 1, wherein the engagement area of the locking element is adapted to a contour of the locking positions of the locking rail, wherein the engagement area of the locking element is provided with radii, which are adapted to the radii of a lower rail hole pattern of the locking rail such that the engagement area of the locking element uses the full hole width of the locking rail for abutment.

4. A motor vehicle seat comprising:

a seat sub-frame adjustable along a rail longitudinal guide to which a backrest is pivotably hinged and is foldable in a direction towards a seating surface of the seat sub-frame,

a locking device for arresting the rail longitudinal guide in an adjustable seating longitudinal position,

an entry aid via which the locking device is releasable when the backrest is folded towards the seating surface, and

a memory arrangement for adjusting and retrieving a memory position with a position memory that has an adjuster for adjusting the memory position in the rail longitudinal direction of the rail longitudinal guide and a locking element that is pivotably connected to the adjuster, wherein said locking element can be pivoted in a locking rail for locking the adjusted memory position under the effect of a control element and can be pivoted out of the locking rail for adjusting a memory position,

wherein the locking element is connected to the adjuster via a slotted guide such that a virtual point of rotation of the locking element lies underneath a rail profile of the locking rail;

wherein the slotted guide comprises at least two path curves arranged in the locking element and the guiding elements of the adjuster assigned to the at least two path curves; and

wherein the guiding elements of the adjuster comprise guide bolts which engage into the at least two path curves of the locking element, and further comprising latch noses at ends of respective guide bolts.

5. The motor vehicle seat according to claim 4, wherein the guiding elements of the adjuster comprise a guide contour in the adjuster.