Locking system for a seat arrangement of a motor vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10279711-B2
Application number	US-201615259591-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 8, 2016
Priority date	Sep 8, 2015
Publication date	May 7, 2019
Grant date	May 7, 2019

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a locking system for a seat arrangement of a motor vehicle, which seat arrangement has an adjustment component which is adjustable manually into at least one locking position, wherein the locking system has a locking mechanism, and wherein the adjustment component is lockable and releasable in the locking position by means of the locking mechanism, wherein the locking mechanism has an actuation drive by means of which the locking mechanism is releasable in a motorized manner, wherein the locking system has a proximity sensor which is triggerable by a predefined operator control event and wherein, by means of the triggering of the proximity sensor, the adjustment component is releasable in a motorized manner via the actuation drive.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A locking system for a seat arrangement of a motor vehicle, which seat arrangement has a seat part and an adjustment component which is adjustable manually into at least one locking position, the locking system comprising a locking mechanism, wherein the adjustment component is lockable and releasable in the locking position by the locking mechanism, wherein the locking mechanism comprises an actuation drive, wherein the locking mechanism is releasable in a motorized manner by the actuation drive, wherein the locking system has a proximity sensor which is triggerable by a predefined operator control event, wherein the adjustment component is releasable in a motorized manner via the actuation drive by the triggering of the proximity sensor, wherein the adjustment component is designed as an adjustable backrest, and wherein the proximity sensor is arranged in or on an end region of the adjustable backrest that faces away from the seat part of the seat arrangement.

2. The locking system according to claim 1 , wherein the proximity sensor has at least one capacitive proximity sensor element.

3. The locking system according to claim 1 , wherein the locking mechanism is designed as a latching mechanism, wherein an adjustment of the adjustment component into the locking position is associated with latching of the locking mechanism into a locking state.

4. The locking system according to claim 1 , wherein the operator control event is defined as an approach of a body part of the operator to the proximity sensor.

5. The locking system according to claim 4 , wherein the definition of the operator control event comprises the exceeding of a predefined residence period of the body part of the operator within a detection range of the proximity sensor.

6. The locking system according to claim 1 , wherein the definition of the operator control event comprises contact of the proximity sensor or covering of the proximity sensor by a body part of the operator.

7. The locking system according to claim 1 , wherein the locking mechanism in a release state automatically falls back under a fall back condition into a locking state.

8. The locking system according to claim 1 , wherein the actuation drive has an actuation motor and a gearing connected downstream of the actuation motor.

9. A seat arrangement of a motor vehicle with a locking system according to claim 1 .

10. The seat arrangement according to claim 9 , wherein the adjustment component is assigned a spring arrangement for assisting its manual adjustment.

11. A method for operating a seat arrangement according to claim 9 , comprising triggering the proximity sensor to release the adjustment component in a motorized manner via the actuation drive.

12. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the seat arrangement has a travel component which is movable in a motorized manner and is assigned a travel drive, and further comprising triggering the proximity sensor to move the travel component in a motorized manner via the travel drive.

13. The locking system according to claim 4 , wherein the definition of the operator control event comprises the exceeding of a predefined approach speed.

14. The locking system according to claim 7 , wherein the fall back condition is the expiry of a predefined period of time since the triggering of the proximity sensor.

15. The locking system according to claim 8 , wherein the gearing is designed as a traction element gearing.

16. The seat arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the proximity sensor is arranged in a handle region of the adjustment component for the manual adjustment of the adjustment component.

17. The seat arrangement according to claim 10 , wherein the motorized release of the locking mechanism brings about a spring-driven springing open of the adjustment component, at least from the locking position.

Assignees

• Brose Fahrzeugteile

Inventors

• Mueller Maximilian
• Schukalski Juergen
• Kroener Gregor

Classifications

• B60N2/2356

  with internal pawls · CPC title

• B60N2/2245 Primary

  provided with a lock mechanism on the upper part of the back-rest · CPC title

• B60N2/3002 Primary

  back-rest movements · CPC title

• B60N2/3025

  along transversal axis · CPC title

• B60N2/20

  the back-rest being tiltable, e.g. to permit easy access (B60N2/04, B60N2/22 {, B60N2/3002} take precedence) · CPC title