One touch stow in floor seat assembly with automatic lateral displacement

US10406956B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Magna Seating Inc. · CA

Inventors

• David A. White · Grand Blanc, US
• Prasad D. Jagtap · Farmington, US
• Alan Proulx · Wixom, US
• Timothy Jon Brush · Waterford, US
• Jeffrey P. Carroll · Beverly Hills, US
• Omar D. Tame · Beverly Hills, US
• Robert Thomas Coffey · Canton, US
• Rabindranath Persad · Superior Charter Township, US
• Douglas A. Dingel · Brighton, US
• Nelson E. Hurst, III · Westland, US
• Jerzy Dziedzic · Milford, US
• Lei Cao · 龙王头村, CN
• Brian Adwell · Waterford, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 19, 2014
• Grant date: Sep 10, 2019
• Expiry date: Oct 23, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60N2/3075
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A seat assembly is provided for supporting in an automotive vehicle. The seat assembly comprises a seat cushion and a seat back pivotally coupled to the seat cushion for movement between a reclined seating position and a fold flat position. A recliner assembly is coupled between the seat back and the seat cushion to provide pivotal movement of the seat back. A riser assembly is pivotally coupled to the seat cushion and pivotally latched to the floor to allow pivotal movement of the seat cushion between a horizontal seating position and a forwardly upright tumbled position. A release mechanism is coupled between the seat back and the riser assembly for automatically synchronizing actuation of the recliner assembly and the riser assembly to provide movement of the seat assembly to the tumbled position in response to the pivotal movement of the seat back to the fold flat position.