Device for indicating the presence of a load on a vehicle seat
AssigneeSWF-Spezialfabrik fur Autozubehor Gustav Rau GmbH
InventorsDieter Eberle, Dieter Hanselmann, Hans Prohaska
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Abstract
A device for indicating the loading of a seat, particularly an automobile passenger seat, comprises a seat having a spring suspension with a pull switch mounted on a rigid plate held to the underside of the suspension. The pull switch includes an actuating member which is biased in a first switch position by a resilient element which is secured to a laterally remote part of the spring suspension and it operates on the actuating element to move it to a second switch position when the seat is loaded and the switch is moved with the spring suspension as it is flexed on the load.
Claims9
A device for indicating the loading of a seat, particularly an automobile seat, comprising a seat having a spring suspension with an encircling frame, a plate connected to the underside of said spring suspension, a pull switch mounted on said plate, said pull switch having an actuator member extending outwardly from one end of said switch housing and being movable inwardly and outwardly in respect to said switch housing between at least two switch positions, and resilient means supporting said pull switch at the underside of said spring suspension and including a first resilient part connected to said actuator member and to one side of said spring suspension frame and a second resilient part connected to said switch housing in the opposite side of said spring suspension frame from said one side, said switch being movable upon loading and sagging of said spring suspension to cause movement of said actuator from the first switch position to the second switch position, said switch including means for returning said actuator to a first position when the load is removed from said spring suspension.
A device for indicating the loading of a seat part of an automobile passenger seat, comprising a seat having a rigid frame with a horizontally extending spring suspension frame portion and a central resilient portion, a switch having a housing with a contact plate portion engaged on the underside of said central resilient portion and having one housing free end and an opposite housing end with an actuating member, and at least one first and second resilient member stretchable between said actuating member and one side of said spring suspension frame and said housing free end and the opposite side of said spring suspension frame.
A device for indicating the loading of a seat part of an automobile passenger seat, comprising a seat having a rigid frame with a horizontally extending spring suspension frame, a switch having a contact plate portion engaged on the underside of said suspension frame and having one end secured to one end of said suspension frame and having an actuating member at the opposite end, resilient means secured to said actuating member and to said spring suspension frame adjacent the opposite end thereof, said resilient means comprising two elastic members extending obliquely from said actuating member to respective corners of said spring suspension frame, said resilient support means comprising rubber bands of O-shaped configuration forming loops at each end which are engaged with said suspension frame and said actuating member respectively.
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