Arrangement of an unlocking knob in automative seat
AssigneeTachi-S Co., Ltd.
InventorMasami Akiyama
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Abstract
An arrangement of an unlocking knob in an automotive seat, wherein a rod is provided, with its one base portion being connected with a lock means in the seat, while its another free end portion is so formed as to define therein a raised portion and a horizontally expanded hook-like latch portion, and wherein the unlocking includes a securing portion which has, formed therein, a recessed groove of a shape generally identical to that of the hook-like latch portion of the rod, such that the free end portion of rod is inserted into and latchingly secured in the recessed groove of unlocking knob securing protion. The recessed groove includes a sloped upper edge for facilitating the ease with which the free end portion of rod is engaged in the recessed groove.
Claims7
An arrangement of an unlocking knob in an automotive seat, adapted to be associated with a lock means and operating through a rod, and said rod is operated via said unlocking knob, wherein a free end portion of said rod is so formed as to define therein a raised portion integrally extended from a base rod portion of said rod, and a horizontally expanded hook-like latch portion continuous from said raised portion, wherein said unlocking knob includes a securing portion which has, formed therein, a recessed groove of a shape generally identical to that of said horizontally expanded hook-like latch portion of said rod, said recessed groove including a means for defining a sloped upper edge sloped downwardly from an upper plane of said groove to a lower plane of a base bottom portion of said unlocking knob, and wherein said free end portion of said rod is latchingly secured into said securing portion of said unlocking knob, such that said horizontally expanded hook-like latch portion of said rod rides on said sloped upper edge defining means and then falls fit in said groove.
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