Seat apparatus vehicle
AssigneeAlgin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKeiichi Hibino, Yukifumi Yamada
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Abstract
A seat apparatus for a vehicle includes a seat portion having a seat cushion, a seat slide mechanism for adjusting the position of the seat portion back and forth, and a lock mechanism adapted to effect locking engagement of the seat portion with a striker fixedly arranged relative to the floor of the vehicle, with the locking engagement being adapted to be released at a predetermined fixed position of the seat portion. A first operational mechanism is provided for operating the lock mechanism and is adapted to be operated from the rear side of the seat portion, and a second operational mechanism is provided for adjusting the position of the seat portion and is adapted to be operated from the front side and the rear side of the seat portion.
Claims20
A seat apparatus for a vehicle comprising:
- an upper rail slidably supported on a lower rail;
- a seat portion secured to the upper rail;
- an engaging plate rotatably supported on the upper rail and including a plurality of engaging portions positioned in holes in the lower rail to fix the upper rail relative to the lower rail and adapted to be moved out of the holes to permit back and forth sliding movement of the upper rail relative to the lower rail;
- a front handle located at a front side of the seat portion and operatively connected to the engaging plate to rotate the engaging plate and move the engaging portions out of the holes to permit sliding movement of the upper rail relative to the lower rail;
- a rear handle located at a rear side of the seat portion and operatively connected to the engaging plate to rotate the engaging plate and move the engaging portions out of the holes to permit sliding movement of the upper rail relative to the lower rail;
- a lock mechanism adapted to effect locking engagement of the seat portion with a striker;
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- a lock handle located at the rear side of the vehicle and adapted to operatively engage the lock mechanism to release the locking engagement.
A seat apparatus in a vehicle comprising:
- a seat portion having a seat cushion;
- a striker fixedly arranged relative to a floor of the vehicle;
- a seat slide mechanism for adjusting a position of the seat portion relative to the vehicle floor;
- a lock mechanism for effecting locking engagement of the seat portion with the striker, the lock mechanism releasing the locking engagement at a predetermined fixed position of the seat portion;
- a first operation mechanism operable from a rear side of the seat portion for releasing the lock mechanism;
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- a second operation mechanism operable from the front side and the rear side of the seat portion for releasing the seat slide mechanism.
A seat apparatus for a vehicle comprising:
- a seat portion;
- a seat slide mechanism to which is secured the seat portion for adjusting a position of the seat portion in a back and forth manner between a forward most position and a rearward most position;
- a lock mechanism adapted to effect locking engagement of the seat portion with a striker;
- a front handle positioned at a front side of the seat portion and operatively connected to the seat slide mechanism to release the seat slide mechanism and permit back and forth adjustment of the seat portion;
- a rear handle positioned at a rear side of the seat portion and operatively connected to the seat slide mechanism to release the seat slide mechanism and permit back and forth adjustment of the seat portion;
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- a lock handle positioned at the rear side of the seat portion and adapted to operatively engage the lock mechanism to release the locking engagement only when the seat portion has been moved to a predetermined position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.