Stepwise seat slide adjuster for vehicles
AssigneeAisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKenichi Kazaoka, Saburo Suzuki
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Abstract
A stepwise seat slide adjuster for vehicles includes a stationary lower guide rail adapted to be mounted to a vehicle floor, an upper guide rail adapted to be mounted to a vehicle seat and capable of a longitudinally sliding movement relative to the lower guide rail, a manually operated lever having a first pawl pivotally supported on the upper guide rail and releasably engaging any one of the latch teeth formed along the longitudinal edge of the lower guide rail, and a second pawl actuated in response to the release action of the manual lever which disengages the first pawl from the tooth with which it engages, so that the first pawl can backward stepwise slide to a latch tooth which corresponds to a selected seat position and engage with the tooth.
Claims13
A seat slide adjuster for vehicles including a stationary lower guide rail mountable to a vehicle floor, a movable upper guide rail mountable to a vehicle seat and capable of a longitudinally sliding movement relative to the lower guide rail, and a manually operated lever member pivotally supported on the upper guide rail and having first pawl means releasably engaging any one of a plurality of regularly spaced latch teeth integrally formed along the lower guide rail at a predetermined pitch, and second pawl means mounted on said lever for pivotal movement and for longitudinal movement by a predetermined multiple of said pitch, said second pawl means being biased into engagement with said teeth and releasable from said engaged condition by said lever when said first pawl means is engaged with said teeth.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.