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US 8,282,151 B2Granted
Vehicle seat slide device
AssigneeAisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYasuhiro Kojima, Hideo Nihonmatsu, Yoshihisa Hori
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Abstract
A stopper includes an attachment portion and a pair of flanges. The attachment portion contacts an outer surface of a bottom wall portion of a lower rail and is attached to the bottom wall portion. The flanges extend from the attachment portion to be passed through insertion holes in the bottom wall portion. The flanges are located in an inner space of the lower rail. The flanges are engaged with second cut-and-raised pieces formed in an upper rail, thereby limiting the range of movement of the upper rail relative to the lower rail.
Claims12
A seat slide device comprising:
- a first rail adapted to be fixed to one of a vehicle floor and a vehicle seat, the first rail including a wall portion having a pair of insertion holes arranged in a widthwise direction of the first rail;
- a second rail adapted to be fixed to the other one of the vehicle floor and the vehicle seat, wherein the second rail is assembled to the first rail so as to be movable relative to the first rail, and cooperates with the first rail to form an inner space;
- a first stopper having an attachment portion and a pair of movement limiting portions, the attachment portion contacting an outer surface of the wall portion of the first rail to be attached to the wall portion, the movement limiting portions being formed integrally with the attachment portion and extending from side edges of the attachment portion through the insertion holes to be located in the inner space;
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- a second stopper provided on the second rail,
- wherein the movement limiting portions are arranged to be contactable with the second stopper in a direction of relative movement between the first rail and the second rail, wherein, by being engaged with the second stopper, the movement limiting portions limit a relative movement range of the first and second rails.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.