Seat lock device
AssigneesMitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsToshio Kurozu, Norio Miyashita
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Abstract
A seat lock device comprising a lock units provided on the side of a seat and at a point spaced from the pivotal shaft of the back rest and a plurality of strikers erected on an immovable member for engagement with the lock unit, wherein when any of the strikers is moved in engagement with any of elongate grooves cut out in a rotatable actuating unit pivotally supported by the lock unit and the actuating unit is rotated by a predetermined angle, a latch is inserted into any of the elongate grooves to lock said actuating unit, consequently said back rest, on the striker, and where a connector is pulled, the back rest is unlocked and can be shifted to another striker to be locked thereby.
Claims6
A seat lock device comprising a lock unit fitted on one member of an immovable member and a swingable back rest member of a seat, the back rest member being rotatably supported by a pivotal shaft mounted on the immovable member and at a point spaced from the pivotal shaft, and a plurality of strikers mounted on the other of said members along the circumference of a circle centered at the pivotal shaft for lockable engagement with the lock unit, wherein the lock unit comprises a case;
- an actuating unit pivotally supported on the case to be rotated into selective engagement with any of the strikers;
- a lock mechanism for locking the rotatable actuating unit when it is rotated through a prescribed angle to a lock position;
- a direction-setting unit for rotating the actuating unit to set it in a free position ready for engagement with an approaching striker while the actuating unit remains disengaged from all the strikers;
- and a releasing mechanism for releasing the actuating unit locked by the lock mechanism.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.