Articulated fitting for a vehicle seat
AssigneeKEIPER GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsRichard Hansel, Andreas Ruth, Karl Utzinger
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Abstract
In an articulated fitting (5) for a vehicle seat, particularly for a motor vehicle seat, consisting of a first fitting part (7), a second fitting part (8) pivotable relative to the first fitting part (7) around an axis of rotation (10), a detent pawl (15) for locking the second fitting part (8), which is pivotably mounted on the first fitting part (7), and a clamping element (25) mounted in a pivotable manner for securing the detent pawl (15) in a locked state, the clamping element (25), through a pivotably mounted cam (31), acts on a detent pawl (15), the cam (31) being mobile relative to the detent pawl (15).
Claims20
An articulated fitting for a vehicle seat, the articulated fitting comprising:
- a first fitting part;
- a second fitting part mounted for rotating about an axis of rotation relative to the first fitting part;
- a detent pawl pivotably mounted on the first fitting part for moving into a locking position in which the detent pawl locks the second fitting part to restrict rotation of the second fitting part;
- a cam pivotably mounted for moving relative to the detent pawl;
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- a clamping element pivotably mounted for forcing the cam to move so that the cam forces the detent pawl into the locking position,
- whereby the clamping element acts on the detent pawl via the cam.
An articulated fitting for a vehicle seat, the articulated fitting comprising:
- a first fitting part;
- a second fitting part mounted for rotating about an axis of rotation relative to the first fitting part, with the second fitting part including a pivot;
- a detent pawl pivotably mounted on the pivot for moving into a locking position in which the detent pawl locks the second fitting part to restrict rotation of the second fitting part;
- a cam pivotably mounted on the pivot;
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- a clamping element pivotably mounted for forcing the cam to move and thereby interact with the detent pawl,
- wherein the cam and the detect pawl are counstructed so that the interaction between the cam and the detent pawl causes:
- the detent pawl to move into the locking position, and
- relative movement between the cam and the detent pawl so that the cam and the detent pawl are respectively forced in substantially opposite directions against different points on the pivot and thereby function together to clamp onto the pivot in a manner that reduces play within the articulated fitting.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.