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US 2020/0139869 A1Published application
Quick-attachment assembly for attaching a seatback frame to a vehicle frame and selected detachment therefrom
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorGeorge Jacob
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Abstract
A vehicle seat attachment includes a riser bracket of a vehicle frame. A pin is biased through the riser bracket to a securing position. A seat bracket has an angled channel that extends to a securing aperture, wherein slidable engagement of the angled channel with the pin is configured to bias the pin away from the securing position until the pin reaches the securing aperture wherein the pin returns to the securing position.
Claims20
A vehicle comprising:
- a seatback frame slidably operable with a vehicle frame to define an attached position;
- a pin biased toward a securing position through the vehicle frame;
- wherein:
- when the seatback frame is moved toward the attached position, a biasing portion of the seatback frame axially biases the pin away from the securing position;
- and
- in the attached position, the pin is in the securing position and extends through the biasing portion.
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A method for attaching a vehicle seat to a vehicle frame, the method comprising steps of:
- attaching a pin-biasing assembly to a riser bracket of the vehicle frame;
- sliding a seatback frame against the riser bracket toward an attached position, wherein slidable operation of the seatback frame engages an angled channel of the seatback frame with an angled end of a rotationally-fixed pin for the pin-biasing assembly and biases the rotationally-fixed pin away from a securing position;
- placing the seatback frame in the attached position, wherein the rotationally-fixed pin is biased into the securing position and extends through a securing aperture of the seatback frame.
A vehicle comprising:
- a vehicle frame;
- a riser bracket that is rigidly fixed with respect to the vehicle frame;
- a pin that is axially biased through the riser bracket to a securing position, the pin being rotationally fixed and axially slidable relative to the riser bracket, and wherein the pin includes an angled end having a planar sloped surface;
- and
- a seat bracket having an angled channel that extends to a securing aperture, wherein:
- slidable engagement of the angled channel with the pin, along a predetermined rotational orientation of the seat bracket with respect to the riser bracket, is configured to bias the pin away from the securing position until the pin reaches the securing aperture wherein the pin returns to the securing position;
- the planar sloped surface of the pin selectively aligns with the angled channel to define the predetermined rotational orientation of the seat bracket with respect to the riser bracket and the slidable engagement;
- and
- engagement between the seat bracket and the riser bracket via the pin defines a pivot connection of the seat bracket at the riser bracket.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.