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US 10,857,910 B2Granted
Vehicle seating system
AssigneeLear Corporation
InventorAdarsha B. Madhu
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Abstract
A seating system for a vehicle having a seat bottom and a seat back connected to and manually rotatable relative to the seat bottom may include a manually-actuated dump-and-return arrangement for the seat back and a manually-actuated slide arrangement for the seat bottom. It may also include a motor-actuated dump-and-return arrangement for the seat back and a motor-actuated slide arrangement for the seat bottom.
Claims15
A seating system for a vehicle, comprising:
- a seat bottom;
- a seat back connected to the seat bottom;
- a tilt arrangement manually operable to facilitate rotation of the seat back relative to the seat bottom, including dumping the seat back forward as part of an easy-entry position;
- a slide arrangement manually operable to facilitate movement of the seat bottom forward as another part of the easy-entry position;
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- a motor arrangement operable to actuate the tilt arrangement and the slide arrangement to move the seat back and the seat bottom to the easy-entry position, and wherein the motor arrangement includes one motor operable to actuate the tilt arrangement and the slide arrangement to move the seat back and the seat bottom to the easy-entry position, and further includes a second motor operable to move the seat bottom rearward from the easy-entry position to a use position.
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A seating system for a vehicle, comprising:
- a seat bottom;
- a seat back connected to and manually rotatable relative to the seat bottom;
- a manually-actuated dump-and-return arrangement for the seat back and a manually-actuated slide arrangement for the seat bottom;
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- a motor-actuated dump-and-return arrangement for the seat back and a motor-actuated slide arrangement for the seat bottom, and wherein the manually-actuated dump-and-return arrangement includes a first actuator manually operable to provide non-motorized release of the seat back from a locked position and facilitate tilting of the seat back forward to an easy-entry position for the seat back, and the manually-actuated slide arrangement includes a second actuator separate from the first actuator and manually operable to provide non-motorized release of the seat bottom from a locked position and facilitate movement of the seat bottom forward to an easy-entry position for the seat bottom.
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A seating system for a vehicle, comprising:
- a seat bottom;
- a seat back connected to and manually rotatable relative to the seat bottom;
- a first powertrain operable to facilitate rotation of the seat back relative to the seat bottom, including dumping the seat back forward from a use position to an easy-entry position;
- a second powertrain operable to facilitate movement of the seat bottom forward from a use position to the easy-entry position;
- a manual actuator arrangement operable on at least a portion of the first powertrain and at least a portion of the second powertrain to facilitate movement of the seat back and the seat bottom from the use position to the easy-entry position;
- at least one motor operable on at least a portion of the first powertrain to facilitate movement of the seat back and the seat bottom from the use position to the easy-entry position, and wherein the at least one motor includes a first motor operable on at least a portion of the manual actuator arrangement to facilitate movement of the seat back and the seat bottom from the use position to the easy-entry position;
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- at least one other motor operable on at least a portion of the second powertrain to facilitate movement of the seat bottom from the easy-entry position to the use position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.