Adjustment mechanism for an occupant support

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10556522-B2
Application number	US-201815951469-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 12, 2018
Priority date	Apr 18, 2017
Publication date	Feb 11, 2020
Grant date	Feb 11, 2020

Abstract

A height adjustment device of a motor vehicle seat and a method for the production thereof includes a transverse pipe and a pair of links. The transverse pipe has two end-side bearing regions which merge in a central region having a larger diameter and each link rests on a bearing region of the transverse pipe.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A height adjustment device of a vehicle seat for adjusting a vehicle seat component, the height adjustment device comprising
a transverse pipe rotatably supported with two ends thereof configured to provide a bearing region in a hole of a seat member side frame, and
two links positioned on the transverse pipe in a rotationally secure and axially secure manner, the two links each having a lower end that is rotatably supported on a vehicle structure and a bearing hole by means of which they rest on the bearing regions, a central region of the transverse pipe having a larger diameter, the central region arranged between the bearing regions, and the links are arranged to face away from the central region and are axially secured by means of an adjacent bead in one direction on the transverse pipe,
wherein the transverse pipe further includes a diameter step formed between the central region and the bearing regions there is arranged by a conical abutment face of the transverse pipe, with which a conical abutment shoulder formed in the bearing hole is in abutment so that the links are also axially secured in the other direction to the transverse pipe, and
wherein at least one axial groove is formed in the bearing hole and material for securing the links to the transverse pipe in a rotationally secure manner is configured to flow into the at least one groove during a production process.

2. The height adjustment device of claim 1 , wherein the conical abutment shoulder of the bearing hole merges approximately at the center of the sheet thickness of the link into a cylindrical wall of the bearing hole.

3. The height adjustment device according to claim 1 , wherein the opening angle (α) of the abutment shoulder is between 45 and 70°.

4. The height adjustment device of claim 2 , wherein the opening angle (α) of the abutment shoulder is between 45 and 70°.

5. The height adjustment device of claim 3 , wherein the opening angle (α) is 60°.

6. The height adjustment device of claim 4 , wherein the opening angle (α) is 60°.

7. A method for producing a height adjustment device of a motor vehicle seat, the method comprising the steps of
providing a transverse pipe with a constant diameter,
reducing the diameter of the transverse pipe at both ends in order to provide bearing regions with the diameter, between which a central region with the original diameter remains, wherein the transition between the bearing regions and the central region is carried out in each case in a diameter step,
pushing the link by means of the bearing hole thereof onto the bearing region until it is in abutment with the diameter step between the central region and bearing region,
applying an axial force to the link and/or the transverse pipe in order to cold-form the transverse pipe in the region of the diameter step to form a conical abutment face for a conical abutment shoulder of the bearing hole and for material flow into the at least one groove of the bearing hole, and
forming a bead which is in abutment with an outer side of the link.

Assignees

• Faurecia Autositze Gmbh

Inventors

• Sulaiman Hosen
• Völlmecke Jörg
• Schenke Markus
• Schaper Michael
• Witt Jens

Classifications

• B21D39/06

  of tubes in openings, e.g. rolling-in · CPC title

• B60N2/1615 Primary

  Parallelogram-like structure · CPC title

• F16B17/006

  of rods or tubes to sheets or plates · CPC title

• B60N2/682

  Joining means · CPC title

• B21D17/025

  by pressing tubes axially · CPC title