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Adjustable vehicle seat

  • US 9,925,892 B2
  • Filed: 03/25/2016
  • Issued: 03/27/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A vehicle seat motion system comprising:

  • a vehicle seat including a seat bottom and a seat back coupled to the seat bottom, the vehicle seat being adapted to extend upwardly away from a vehicle floor to a plurality of vertical positions, the vehicle seat being adapted to slide back and forth along the vehicle floor to a plurality of longitudinal locations,a remote interface unit,a sensor unit coupled to the vehicle seat to sense an arrangement of the vehicle seat relative to the vehicle floor,an actuator unit coupled to the vehicle seat to cause the vehicle seat to move vertically toward or away from the vehicle floor and longitudinally along the vehicle floor, anda controller configured to provide means for causing the actuator unit to move the vehicle seat relative to the vehicle floor in response to receipt of a signal from the remote interface unit and to cause the vehicle seat to assume a predetermined vertical position relative to the vehicle floor which corresponds to a longitudinal location of the vehicle seat sensed by the sensor unit so that passenger safety and comfort is maximized,wherein the remote interface unit displays a curve illustrating a fit approximation for the vehicle seat.

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