Easy-entry motor vehicle seat with seat back release upon return to memory position

US7097250B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• BROSE FAHRZEUGTEILE GMBH & CO. · DE

Inventors

• Peter Rausch · Coburg, DE
• Werner Taubmann · Herbstein, DE
• Jürgen Koppenstein · Ebersdorf b.Coburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 22, 2002
• Grant date: Aug 29, 2006
• Expiry date: Apr 28, 2023

Classification

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

Abstract

A motor vehicle seat including: a seat frame; a pivotally mounted seat back which, when released, is tiltable forward out of its position of use and toward a seat surface of the seat frame; a longitudinal guide with which the seat frame is displaceable in the longitudinal direction of the seat; a fixing device for fixing a seat frame in a previously adjusted longitudinal position of the seat; a coupling mechanism; and, a memory device by which the seat frame can be automatically held in an adjustable longitudinal position of the seat, which is defined as a memory position. An actuating mechanism is actively connected to a seat back release for the forward tilted seat back and actuates the seat back release when the memory position of the seat frame is reached, thereby enabling the seat back to be tilted into a position of use once again.