Vehicle seat slide mechanism
AssigneeToyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorIwao Matsushima
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Abstract
A vehicle seat slide mechanism via which a seat assembly is slidably mounted on a vehicle floor is provided with: a lower rail that is mounted on the vehicle floor; an upper rail which is slidably attached on the lower rail and on which the seat assembly is attached; a lock mechanism that locks the upper rail on the lower rail in a releasable manner; and a gap reduction member that is provided between a first face formed at the lower rail and facing in a substantially vertical direction and a second face formed at the upper rail and facing to the first face.
Claims5
A vehicle seat slide mechanism which slidably mounts a seat assembly on a vehicle floor, comprising:
- a lower rail that is mounted on the vehicle floor;
- an upper rail which is slidably attached on the lower rail and on which the seat assembly is attached;
- a lock mechanism that locks the upper rail on the lower rail in a releasable manner;
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- a gap reduction member that is provided between a first face formed at the lower rail and facing in a substantially vertical direction and a pair of second faces formed at lowermost portions of the upper rail and facing to the first face;
- wherein the gap reduction member is attached, as viewed in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle seat, on a rear end portion of the lower rail, and a longitudinal length of the gap reduction member is such that at least a portion of the gap reduction member is present between the upper rail and the lower rail, regardless of where the upper rail is located in a sliding range over which the upper rail is slidable relative to the lower rail.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.