Longitudinal guide for a motor vehicle seat

US9579992B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• BROSE FAHRZEUGTEILE GMBH & CO. KG, COBURG · DE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Suck · Coburg, DE
• Nick Röhnert · Chemnitz, DE
• Karsten Hartleb · Weitramsdorf, DE
• Andreas Prause · Coburg, DE
• Bernd Griebel · Coburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 14, 2015
• Grant date: Feb 28, 2017
• Expiry date: Jul 14, 2035

Classification

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

Abstract

A longitudinal guide for vehicle seats including two elongate rails, each including a lower rail, an upper rail supported on the lower rail and displaceable longitudinally, two bearing areas for guiding means, the bearing areas lying diagonally opposite to and being biased against each other, each upper rail and lower rail having an L-shaped region, if viewed in profile, formed by a base leg and an L-leg that protrudes from the base leg substantially perpendicularly, and two end regions, which adjoin the L-shaped region, each end region of the upper or lower rail together with the end region of the associated lower or upper rail forming an embracing area by mutually hooking, end regions of the upper rail forming bearing areas with opposite portions of the associated lower rail, and a plurality of balls are supported in a first bearing area on the end region having a circular arc-shaped profile.