Movement device for vehicle seat
AssigneeToyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHideki Akiya, Tadashi Nie
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Abstract
A movement device for a vehicle seat includes lower rails extending in a forward or rearward direction of a vehicle are arranged in a vehicle width direction on a vehicle floor. An upper rail provided at a lower part of a seat slidably movably engages with the lower rails. A recess is formed in the vehicle floor, enabling a carriage to be conveyed between the lower rails along the vehicle width direction. The carriage is separated from the vehicle floor, and guide rails are installed on the carriage. The guide rails are provided in extensions of the lower rails so as to be capable of directly accepting a sliding movement of the upper rail from the lower rails, as the upper rail is removed from the lower rail into the extension thereof.
Claims29
A movement device for a vehicle seat, comprising:
- a plurality of rows of lower rails disposed on a vehicle floor and extending at least in a forward or rearward direction of a vehicle in order to move the seat and arranged in a vehicle width direction;
- an upper rail provided on the seat and slidably movably engaged with the lower rails;
- a guide rail provided in an extension of the lower rail so as to be capable of directly accepting a sliding movement of the upper rail of the seat from the lower rail, as the upper rail is removed from the lower rail into the extension thereof, the upper rail sliding along the forward or rearward direction of the vehicle on the lower rail;
- a movable member on which the guide rail is placed and which is movable in the vehicle width direction while being separated from the floor;
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- a conveyance path allowing the movable member to be conveyed along the vehicle width direction between the plurality of rows of lower rails.
A movement device for a vehicle seat, comprising:
- a plurality of rows of lower rails disposed on a vehicle floor and extending at least in a forward or rearward direction of a vehicle in order to move the seat and arranged in a vehicle width direction;
- an upper rail provided on the seat and slidably movably engaged with the lower rails;
- a guide member guiding the upper rail while maintaining a height and vertical and horizontal angles thereof with respect to the lower rail when the upper rail of the seat sliding on the lower rail along the forward or rearward direction of the vehicle is removed from the lower rail into an extension thereof,
- a movable member on which the guide rail is placed and which is movable in the vehicle width direction while being separated from the floor;
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- a conveyance path allowing the movable member to be conveyed along the vehicle width direction between the plurality of rows of lower rails.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.