US 6,663,157 B1Granted

Removable motor vehicle seat

AssigneeBrose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG, Coburg

InventorsJochen Hofmann, Gregor Kroener, Karl-Heinz Fritz

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Abstract

A removable motor vehicle seat includes a locking mechanism, an operating element for triggering the locking mechanism and at least one electric and/or pneumatic interface which has a detachable connector element. A contact mechanism is provided for connecting and/or disconnecting the connector element which is forcibly coupled to the locking mechanism so that removal or installation of the vehicle seat takes place in at least two chronologically successive phases wherein in one phase exclusively a connection/disconnection of the connector element takes place and in the other phase exclusively a locking/unlocking of the vehicle seat takes place. The removable vehicle seat ensures an automatic functionally reliable connection and disconnection of the electric and/or pneumatic components of a vehicle seat during the installation and dismantling of the seat.

Claims21

Dependent claims

A removable motor vehicle seat comprising:

a locking mechanism for at least one of locking and unlocking the vehicle seat on a vehicle floor;
an operating element for triggering the locking mechanism;
at least one electric and/or pneumatic interface with other vehicle components, wherein the interface has a detachable connector element;
and
a contact mechanism provided for at least one of connecting and disconnecting the connector element which is forcibly coupled to the locking mechanism so that at least one of a removal and insertion of the vehicle seat takes place in at least two chronologically successive phases, wherein in one phase the connector element is exclusively at least one of connected and disconnected and in the other phase the vehicle seat is exclusively at least one of locked and unlocked, and wherein, to separate the at least two phases, blocking means are provided which during a connection/disconnection action, a locking/unlocking action is blocked and during the locking/unlocking action, the connection/disconnection action is blocked.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.