Inclination adjustment fitting for constituent areas of motor vehicle seats

Abstract

An inclination adjustment fitting for constituent areas of motor vehicle seats, such as backrests, for example, has a first fitting portion and a second fitting portion. The first fitting portion connected to a first constituent area, and the second fitting portion is connected to a second constituent area. For locking in a desired position of inclination, sets of gear toothing, which mesh with one another, are provided at either portion of the fitting. The sets of gear toothing which mesh to effect the locking are both not provided directly on the portion of the fitting that supports them, but rather, on an intervening element, which is movable, within limits, relative to the corresponding portion of the fitting. The transfer of forces and motion from an individual fitting portion of the fitting to the intervening element occurs by way of a relatively coarse toothed coupling, while the intervening element has another, finer gear toothing which meshes with the opposing gear toothing of the other fitting portion.

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