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US 12,576,755 B2Granted
Walk-in apparatus of vehicular seat
AssigneeHyundai Transys Inc.
InventorsJung Bin Lee, Sang Min Kim, Jun Kyu Kim
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Abstract
A walk-in apparatus includes an actuator driven by manipulation of a walk-in manipulation unit of a user; a folding unit actuated by the actuator and folding a seat back forward; a tilting unit interlocking with the actuation of the folding unit and tilting a rear side of the seat; and a sliding unit interlocking with the tilting unit and moving the seat forward.
Claims9
A walk-in apparatus provided in a vehicle seat, comprising:
- an actuator configured to be driven by manipulation of a walk-in manipulation unit;
- a folding unit configured to be actuated by the actuator to fold a seat back forward;
- a tilting unit interlocking with actuation of the folding unit and configured to tilt a rear side of the vehicle seat;
- and
- a sliding unit interlocking with the tilting unit and configured to move the vehicle seat forward,
- wherein the folding unit includes a first lever configured to be rotated by a first cable connected to the actuator and configured to release folding restriction of a recliner provided in the seat back,
- wherein the tilting unit includes a second lever in contact with one end of the first lever and configured to be rotated by a rotation of the first lever, a second cable configured to be pulled by a rotation of the second lever, and a third lever connected to the second cable and configured to be rotated when the second cable is pulled, and
- wherein the tilting unit is configured to be tilted as the rear side of the vehicle seat is separated from a latch by a rotation of the third lever.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.