Locking device for a vehicle seat

US6742753B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• KEIPER GMBH & CO. KG · DE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Klahold · Herne, DE
• Joachim Flick · Hückeswagen, DE
• Michael Borbe · Rheinbach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 3, 2003
• Grant date: Jun 1, 2004
• Expiry date: Apr 3, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60N2/0875
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In a locking device for a vehicle seat, particularly a motor vehicle seat with a first component group (12, 16), having at least one locking element (14) for interacting with a first seat rail (5), being pretensioned and movably borne on a second seat rail (8), and a second component group (22, 28) being movably borne relative to the first component group (12, 16) on the second seat rail (8) and acting on the first component group (12, 16) when acted on by a manually operated unlocking element (34), and control elements (20, 26) for controlling the unlocking process of the first component group (12, 16), the component groups (12, 16, 22, 28) are each rigid, and the control elements (20, 26) are arranged between the first component group (12, 16) and the second component group (22, 28).