Power seat drive motor mounting arrangement and assembly method

A method of assembling a drive motor to pair of power seat parallel slider rail assemblies, each having a right angle gear unit secured at one end thereof to be driven by said drive motor, said method comprising the steps of:

• locating each of said slider rail assemblies spaced apart and parallel to each other with said gear units side by side with each other;
• disposing said drive motor between said slider rail assemblies and aligned with said gear units;
• installing drive shafts to either end of said drive motor and to a respective gear unit;
• forming an elongated bracket sized to span the distance between said gear units and having respective end sections at either end thereof overlying each gear unit;
• forming a first slot extending in a longitudinal direction in one end section and a second slot extending transversely in the other end section;
• providing protruding a feature on each of said gear units extending out of a plane formed by said slider rails spaced and configured to be able to be received in a respective one of said first and second slots;
• advancing said bracket towards said one end of one of said slider rails so as to receive one of said protruding feature into said first slot;
• swinging said bracket about said protruding feature over to said one end of the other of said slider rails to pass the other of said protruding features into said second slot;
• and,
• securing said bracket in position with each of said protruding features with a respective one of said first and second slots.