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US 4,726,617 AGranted
Adjustable vehicle seat mounting
AssigneeNissan Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorShinichi Nishimura
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Abstract
A lower slide member has an upright side wall formed with a plurality of holes for engagement with an end of a latch member. The latch member is movably installed not only on a pair of depending wall portions of a stay but on a reinforcement member attached to a side wall of an upper slide member such that an impact applied to a buckle of a seat belt fastener in a vehicle collision is transmitted from the upper slide member to which the stay is secured to a vehicle body via the reinforcement member, latch member and lower slide member.
Claims7
A vehicle seat mounting comprising:
- a fixed lower slide member having an upright side wall;
- an upper slide member slidably disposed on said lower slide member for longitudinal movement relative thereto and having a side wall located in opposition to said upright side wall of said lower slide member;
- a series of holes perforated in said upright side wall of said lower slide member and extending in the longitudinal direction of same;
- a stay secured to said upper slide member for supporting a buckle of a seat belt fastener and having an extension wall located in opposition to said upright side wall of said lower slide member;
- an elongated latch member installed on said extension wall of said stay for longitudinal movement toward and away from said upright side wall of said lower slide member but against movement transversal to the longitudinal axis thereof and having an end engageable in said holes;
- a reinforcement member secured to said side wall of said upper slide member and located in opposition to said upright side wall of said lower slide member;
- said latch member being installed on said reinforcement member for longitudinal movement toward and away from said upright side wall of said lower slide member but against movement transversal to the longitudinal axis thereof;
- means for biasing said latch member toward said upright side wall of said lower slide member for thereby engaging said end of said latch member in said holes;
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- manually operated release lever means for moving said latch member away from said upright side wall of said lower slide member against the bias of said biasing means and thereby disengaging the former from the latter.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.