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AssigneeFAURECIA Sièges d'Automobile
InventorsDidier Gallienne, Gilles Sourdillon, Gilles Dusquesnay
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A fixing device for fixing a seat to a floor of a vehicle, the seat including a seat proper which extends between a front end and a rear end. The fixing device comprises a base serving to support the seat proper, and provided with a rear coupling and with a front coupling, the front coupling comprising an anchoring fork serving to co-operate with a horizontal rod secured to the floor to allow the seat to be pivoted between an in-use position and a tilted-forwards position, the anchoring fork being provided with a finger, and the device further comprising an elastically deformable blade that is secured to the floor and that serves to co-operate with the finger to lock the seat proper to prevent it from pivoting when it is in its tilted-forwards position.
1/ A fixing device for fixing a seat to a floor of a vehicle, the seat including a seat proper which extends between a front end and a rear end, said device comprising:
2/ A device according to claim 1, in which the through opening in the elastically deformable blade has a shape that is complementary to the shape of the finger on the anchoring fork.
3/ A device according to claim 1, in which the finger has a top face which defines a bottom portion of the open recess.
4/ A device according to claim 1, in which the finger has a bottom face which, when the seat proper is in the tilted-forwards position, serves to come into abutment against an abutment secured to the floor.
5/ A device according to claim 4, in which the abutment secured to the floor is in the form of an abutment fork provided with a notch defined by two substantially vertical side prongs separated by a substantially horizontal middle portion, and the bottom face of the finger is provided with a projecting element serving to come to be received in the notch in the abutment fork and facing the middle portion of said notch, when the seat proper is in the tilted-forwards position, so as to prevent the finger from being moved substantially vertically in the opening in the elastically deformable blade.
6/ A device according to claim 4, in which the elastically deformable blade and the abutment secured to the floor are made in a single piece.
7/ A device according to claim 1, in which the base comprises at least one first rail on which the front coupling and the rear coupling are mounted, and a second rail which is mounted to slide on the first rail and which serves to be fixed to the seat proper of the seat to enable the seat proper to be moved forwards and backwards.
8/ A vehicle seat including a seat proper which is mounted on the floor of the vehicle by means of at least one fixing device according to claim 1.
9/ A motor vehicle including at least one seat according to claim 8, the vehicle including a transverse horizontal rod that is secured to the floor and a setback in which the elastically deformable blade is disposed at least in part.