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US 11,691,546 B2Granted
Seat assembly having a pivotable seat back
AssigneeLear Corporation
InventorsGregory Pistilli, Florian Gerbl, Alexej Niederhaus, Mathias Busch, Tino Schneider, Rajdeep Rajput, Michael Schuhbauer, Arunkumar Boda
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Abstract
A seat assembly having a seat back and a mounting bracket assembly. The seat back may have a pivot pin that may be rotatable about an axis. The mounting bracket assembly may be adapted to be mounted to a vehicle and may have a hole that may receive a bushing. The bushing may receive the pivot pin.
Claims19
A seat assembly comprising:
- a seat back having a pivot pin that is rotatable about an axis;
- a mounting bracket assembly that includes:
- a base plate that is adapted to be mounted to a vehicle;
- a cover plate that is mounted to the base plate, the cover plate defining a hole that is disposed along the axis and a slot that extends from the hole to a perimeter of the cover plate;
- and
- a bushing that is disposed in the hole and is mounted to the cover plate, wherein the bushing defines a bushing opening having an elliptical opening that receives the pivot pin and the pivot pin and the bushing are spaced apart from the base plate.
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A seat assembly comprising:
- a seat back that is rotatable about an axis, the seat back having a pivot pin;
- a mounting bracket assembly that is adapted to be mounted to a vehicle, the mounting bracket assembly including:
- a hole that is disposed along the axis;
- a slot that extends from the hole to a perimeter of the mounting bracket assembly;
- and
- a bushing that is disposed in the hole and is mounted to the mounting bracket, wherein the bushing defines a bushing opening having an elliptical configuration that receives the pivot pin such that the pivot pin is rotatable about the axis with respect to the bushing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.