Seat and a release and slide assembly for a seat
AssigneeFca US LLC
InventorRichard T Stuedemann
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Abstract
An assembly for a vehicle seat includes a seat track including a mount, a lead screw carried by the mount, a drive nut rotatable relative to the lead screw to move axially along the lead screw when the drive nut is rotated relative to the lead screw, a slide coupled to the drive nut for movement with the drive nut, and a retainer. The retainer has a lock member that is movable relative to the lead screw, the lock member has a first position in which the lock member engages and prevents axial movement of at least part of the lead screw and a second position in which the lock member permits axial movement of at least part of the lead screw
Claims14
An assembly for a vehicle seat, comprising:
- a seat track including a mount;
- a lead screw carried by the mount;
- a drive nut threadedly engaged with the lead screw and rotatable relative to the lead screw about an axis, the drive nut moves in a first axial direction along the lead screw when the drive nut is rotated about the axis in first direction and the drive nut moves in a second axial direction along the lead screw when the drive nut is rotated in a second direction;
- a slide coupled to the drive nut for movement with the drive nut;
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- a retainer having a lock member that is movable relative to the lead screw, the lock member has a first position in which the lock member engages and prevents axial movement of at least part of the lead screw and a second position in which the lock member permits axial movement of at least part of the lead screw.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.