Control device for the control of stepping motors for the adjustment of a motor vehicle seat

US5278363A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Mercedes-Benz Group AG · DE

Inventors

• Karl-Heinz Krieg · Großenhain, DE
• Siegfried Klink · Schenefeld, DE
• Josef Berger · Tegernsee, DE
• Heinz Baumert · Sindelfingen, DE
• Jurgen Bollman · Bad Liebenzell, DE
• Siegfried Nothacker · Weil der Stadt, DE
• Edgar Pieper · Böblingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 5, 1990
• Grant date: Jan 11, 1994
• Expiry date: Oct 5, 2010

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H01H2217/04
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A control device for the control of stepping motors for the adjustment of a motor vehicle seat, including an adjustment of the seat depth, being the distance between the front edge of the seat surface and the backrest, for adaptation to different thigh lengths of the respective passengers. The control device comprises, in a preferred embodiment, at least one actuating element with two parts, that are displaceable independently of but parallel to each other, as well as first and second switches assigned to parts of the actuating element, respectively, wherein the first switches are provided to control at least the seat depth adjustment, while the second switches are provided to control at least the longitudinal seat adjustment.