Power-operated seat device for vehicle
AssigneeAisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMunetaka Satoh, Sadao Ito, Hiroshi Nawa
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Abstract
A power-operated seat device is comprised of a pair of laterally spaced lower rails for mounting on a floor of a vehicle body, a pair of upper rails slidably mounted on the respective lower rails, a screw shaft rotatably mounted to each of the upper rails, a nut member threadably mounted on the screw shaft, driving device mounted on each of the upper rails and threadably engaged with the screw shaft for moving each upper rail, and a supporting device for mounting the nut member to lower rail, the supporting device including a first bracket to which the nut member is fixedly mounted, a second bracket secured to the lower rail, and a connecting device for connecting the first bracket and the second bracket.
Claims7
A power-operated seat device comprising:
- a pair of laterally spaced lower rails for mounting on a floor of a vehicle body;
- a pair of upper rails slidably mounted to the respective lower rails;
- a screw shaft rotatably mounted to each of the upper rails;
- a nut member threadably mounted to each screw shaft;
- driving means mounted to each of the upper rails and threadably engaged to each screw shaft for moving the upper rails;
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- supporting means for mounting each of the nut members to the lower rails, the supporting means including a first bracket to which the nut member is fixedly mounted, a second bracket secured to the lower rails, and connecting means including a male and female structural configuration of the first bracket and the second bracket connecting the first bracket and the second bracket to one another.
A power-operated seat device comprising a pair of laterally spaced lower rails for mounting on a floor of a vehicle body;
- a pair of upper rails slidably mounted to the respective lower rails;
- a screw shaft rotatably mounted to each of the upper rails;
- a nut member threadably mounted to each screw shaft;
- driving means mounted to each of the upper rails and threadably engaged to each screw shaft for moving the upper rails;
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- supporting means for mounting each of the nut members to the lower rails, the supporting means including a first bracket to which the nut member is fixedly mounted, a second bracket secured to the lower rail;
- positioning means including a pair of spaced flanges formed integrally with the second bracket holding the first bracket in a predetermined space relationship between the flanges and connecting means connecting the first bracket and the second bracket to one another.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.