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US 2022/0032822 A1Published application
Easy entry latch for vehicle seat
AssigneeFaurecia Automotive Seating, LLC
InventorEmil RDZANEK
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Abstract
An occupant support includes a vehicle seat mounted to a foundation frame for sliding the vehicle seat longitudinally in a vehicle. The vehicle seat is movable from a slid-back configuration to a forward-seating configuration and may be changed from a horizontal-use configuration to a tilted configuration for easy entry into or exit from a rear row of the vehicle. The vehicle seat may be locked in the tilted configuration.
Claims20
An occupant support comprising
- a foundation frame adapted to be coupled to a floor of a vehicle,
- a vehicle seat mounted on the foundation frame for sliding movement along foundation frame between a slid-back configuration and a slid-forward configuration and configured to move from a horizontal-use configuration to a tilted configuration when in the slid-forward configuration, the vehicle seat including a stationary frame mounted to the foundation frame and a pivotable frame coupled to the stationary frame and configured to pivot about a frame pivot axis as the occupant changes between the horizontal-use configuration and the tilted configuration, and
- a pivot-control system including an actuator, a seat lock coupled to the actuator and configured to block the vehicle seat from moving from the horizontal-use configuration to the tilted configuration until the vehicle seat is moved to the slid-forward configuration and the actuator is activated to release the seat lock, and a tilt-limiting unit configured to retain the vehicle seat in the tilted configuration until the vehicle seat is moved from the slid-forward configuration toward the slid-back configuration,
- wherein the tilt-limiting unit includes a first lever that extends between and interconnects the stationary frame and the pivotable frame, a second lever coupled to the stationary frame and arranged to lie in a locked position with the first lever in the tilted configuration to block the vehicle seat from moving to the horizontal-use configuration, and a stop coupled to the foundation frame and arranged to engage the second lever when the vehicle seat is in the tilted configuration and is moved from the slid-forward configuration toward the slid-back configuration so that the first lever and the second lever are moved to a freed position so that the vehicle seat may move from the tilted configuration to the horizontal-use configuration.
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An occupant support comprising
- a foundation frame adapted to be coupled to a floor of a vehicle,
- a vehicle seat mounted on the foundation frame for sliding movement along foundation frame between a slid-back configuration and a slid-forward configuration and configured to move from a horizontal-use configuration to a tilted configuration, and
- a tilt-limiting unit configured to retain the vehicle seat in the tilted configuration,
- wherein the tilt-limiting unit includes first lever, a second lever arranged to lie in a locked position with the first lever in the tilted configuration to block the vehicle seat from moving to the horizontal-use configuration, and a stop coupled to the foundation frame and arranged to engage the second lever when the vehicle seat is in the tilted configuration and is moved from the slid-forward configuration toward the slid-back configuration so that the first lever and the second lever are moved to a freed position so that the vehicle seat may move from the tilted configuration to the horizontal-use configuration.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.