F16C2326/08

Friction module, friction hinge, and adjustable headrest including the friction module and/or friction hinge
10960801 · 2021-03-30 · ·

Adjustable headrest including a guide configured to be coupled to a seat; a head support coupled to the guide and configured to be movable along an adjustment path relative to the seat; and a slider having a surface defining a recess receiving the guide. A retainer is positioned to urge a surface of the slider against a surface of the guide, thereby maintaining friction between the surface of the slider and the surface of the guide. Additionally, the adjustable headrest includes a bracket that is fixable relative to the head support or fixed relative to the seat. The bracket has a mounting section positioned for fixation relative to the head support or for fixation to the seat and a guide receiving portion receiving the guide. The slider and the bracket are separate components and are formed from the same material or different materials.

SLIDE BEARING AND ACCESSORY USING SAME WITH PIVOTALLY MOUNTED BEARING
20210207654 · 2021-07-08 ·

The invention relates, inter alia, to a slide bearing (10) for guiding a translationally movable sliding part, comprising a first part (11) having a first guide surface (12) suitable for interacting with a first sliding surface (67) of the sliding part, and comprising a second part (14) having a second guide surface (26) suitable for interacting with a second sliding surface (68) of the sliding part.

The special feature is that the second part (14) is movable relative to the first part (11) and is pressed by a pressure device (29) toward the first guide surface (12) such that the first guide surface (12) can be moved into contact with the first sliding surface (67) and the second guide surface (26) can be moved into contact with the second sliding surface (68).

Device for actuating multiple loads

A device (219) includes a housing (301) and a link (320) displaceably arranged in the housing (301) and having an input port (323) configured to receive an input force (269) oriented along a first axis (91), a first output port (321) configured to provide a first output force (261) based on the input force (259, 269), and a second output port (322) configured to provide a second output force (262) based on the input force (259, 269). The link (320) is configured to move the first output port (321) from a start position (291) to a stop position along the first axis (91) by a first distance in response to receiving the input force (269) and to move the second output port (322) from the start position (291) to the stop position (294) along the first axis (91) by a second distance (422) in response to receiving the input force (259, 269). The first distance is smaller than the second distance.

VIBRATION ISOLATION STRUCTURE APPLIED BETWEEN UPPER AND LOWER SEAT FRAMES FOR VEHICLE

Provided is a vibration isolating apparatus for isolating vibration from being transferred from a vehicle to a seat during idling and traveling. The vibration isolating apparatus provides an isolation structure applied between the upper and lower seat frames for a vehicle. A bearing unit having a low friction characteristic are applied so that horizontal vibration is effectively isolated without an up-and-down motion. A damping unit capable of attenuating the motion and frictional noise is applied.

ROTATIONAL DEVICE FOR A VEHICLE SEAT AS WELL AS A VEHICLE SEAT
20200384896 · 2020-12-10 ·

The present disclosure relates to a rotational device for a vehicle seat having an upper connecting element and a lower connecting element, a ring shaped profile rail, where the ring shaped profile rail is guided by several rollers in a manner rotatable about a rotational axis, where the several rollers are each mounted in a manner rotatable about roller axes, and the rollers are in contact with interior contact surfaces of the profile rail in such a way that the rollers upon rotation of the profile rail roll off on the interior contact surfaces, thereby guiding the profile rail in its rotational movement about the rotational axis, whereby the upper connecting element is connected to the lower connecting element via the rotatable guided ring shaped profile rail in such a way that these can be twisted in relation to one another.

According to the present disclosure it is provided for the roller axes of the several rollers to be determined such that the rollers are in contact with and roll off on several interior contact surfaces of the profile rail with different orientations, whereby each roller in and of itself can be in contact with and roll off on merely one of the several interior contact surfaces of the profile rail.

VEHICLE HAVING RAIL-MOUNTED COMPONENTS

A vehicle includes a cabin and a track assembly. The track assembly is coupled to a portion of the cabin. The track assembly includes a rail assembly. The rail assembly defines an interior aperture. The interior aperture is inaccessible from a top side, a first lateral side, and a second lateral side of the rail assembly. The rail assembly defines a first external channel in the first lateral side and a second external channel in the second lateral side. The first and second external channels receive a carriage power conductor and a carriage data conductor, respectively.

ACTUATOR FOR SEAT ADJUSTMENT DEVICES
20200297115 · 2020-09-24 · ·

An actuating drive, in particular for seat adjustment devices, comprising at least one electric motor, a downstream reduction gear, a coupling device which has a coupling engagement spring that ensures an engaged position of the coupling device during motorized operation and permits a manual disengagement against its coupling force. The coupling device has a coupling lever pivotably mounted in a pivot bearing of a bearing block. The coupling lever is connected at one end of the pivot bearing to a mechanical actuating unit and by which at the other end of the pivot bearing a coupling means can be adjusted to disengage the coupling device. The actuating drive ensures both reliable electrical and reliable manual operation, a high degree of efficiency during electrical operation and simple assembly for a generic actuating drive.

Bearing Structure with Power Feeding Path
20200276941 · 2020-09-03 · ·

A bearing structure includes a base-side unit structure provided on a bearing member side, a rotary member-side unit structure relatively rotatable with respect to the base-side unit structure, an arcuate or circumferential conductor provided in one of the base-side unit structure and the rotary member-side unit structure, and a contactor provided in the other of the unit structures and configured to retain an electric conduction state with the conductor and includes a power feeding path configured by a power feeding harness for feeding electric power from a power feeding device of a vehicle to an electric device of the rotary member via the conductor and the contactor.

Sliding device

Provided is a sliding device that allows two release levers to operate in a synchronous manner. The sliding device includes a lock portion that is displaceable between a locking position and a non-locking position; a release lever configured to be displaced by an operating force; an operation portion provided at a first end of the release lever in an extending direction thereof to receive the operating force; an action portion provided at a second end of the release lever in the extending direction thereof to transmit the operating force to the lock portion via the release lever; and an operating lever provided to the movable rail and displaceable between an operating position to apply the operating force to the operation portion and a non-operating position to apply no operating force to the operation portion.

Table unit
10640027 · 2020-05-05 · ·

Provided is a table unit enabling easy opening of a table provided to the back surface of a seat backrest. A table unit is provided with: a hinge mechanism that is coaxially fitted to a fulcrum shaft portion of a table main body and that can retain and release the table main body in and from a plurality of attitudes; and a hook unit that retains and releases the table main body at the position of a housed attitude. The hinge mechanism is configured to have a pair of cam bodies that face each other in the axial direction, and, through mutual cooperation of the pair of cam bodies, position the table main body to a use attitude in which the table main body is deployed to a use position and to a partially-housed attitude between the housed attitude and the use attitude as a plurality of stages of attitudes.