Actuating arrangement for a vehicle seat

US6332650A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Daimlerchrysler AG · US

Inventors

• Rudolf Krist · Ludwigsburg, DE
• Bernd Schmidt · Kirchberg, CH
• Ralf-Henning Schrom · Gerolzhofen, DE
• Volmar Schulz · Coburg, DE
• Philip C. Shephard · Coventry, GB

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 8, 2000
• Grant date: Dec 25, 2001
• Expiry date: Mar 8, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60N2/123
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An actuating device is provided for a vehicle seat whose seat back can be folded forward around a pivot axis into a deflected position to facilitate entrance and exit. The seat back is held in its folded-back end position by bilaterally provided rotary drop latches which can be unlocked remotely by a common actuating element in synchronization and with a tension arrangement being provided for remote unlocking. The rotary drop latches are rotationally coupled by a connecting rod and operably connected by a single tension strand with the actuating element.