Vehicle seat having a pitching spring unit

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11498463-B2
Application number	US-201916591937-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 3, 2019
Priority date	Oct 4, 2018
Publication date	Nov 15, 2022
Grant date	Nov 15, 2022

Abstract

Vehicle seat having a pitching spring unit, a vehicle seat upper part and a vehicle seat lower part of the vehicle seat being connected such that they can be moved relative to one another by means of a scissor frame arrangement, comprising a first scissor arm and a second scissor arm which cross in a first region as viewed in a vehicle seat width direction, the pitching spring unit comprising a spring element carrier and a spring element, the spring element being connected on one side to the vehicle seat upper part, the vehicle seat lower part or the scissor arms and on the other side to the spring element carrier which is connected to the first scissor arm such that it can be rotated about a second rotational axis and to the second scissor arm such that it can be rotated about a third rotational axis.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle seat comprising:
a vehicle seat upper part;
a vehicle seat lower part;
a scissor frame arrangement, including:
a first scissor arm:
a second scissor arm, wherein the first and second scissor arms cross in a first region as viewed in a vehicle seat width direction; and

a pitching spring unit, including:
a spring element carrier, wherein a first end of the spring element carrier is rotatably connected to the first scissor arm at a first point on a first side of a location of a crossing point between the first and second scissor arms, and wherein a second end of the spring element carrier is rotatably connected to the second scissor arm at a second point on a second side of the location of the crossing point between the first and second scissor arms; and
a spring element, wherein the spring element is connected on one side to the vehicle seat upper part, the vehicle seat lower part or the scissor arms, and wherein the spring element is connected on the other side to the spring element carrier.

2. The vehicle seat according to claim 1 , wherein a vehicle seat width direction, a rotational axis extending through the first point and a rotational axis extending through the second point are parallel to one another.

3. The vehicle seat according to claim 1 , wherein the first scissor arm is connected by means of a first locating bearing to the vehicle seat lower part and by means of a first floating bearing to the vehicle seat upper part, and the second scissor arm is connected by means of a second locating bearing to the vehicle seat upper part and by means of a second floating bearing to the vehicle seat lower part.

4. The vehicle seat according to claim 3 , wherein, as viewed in a vehicle seat longitudinal direction, the first locating bearing is arranged in front of the second locating bearing, and the second floating bearing is arranged behind the first floating bearing; or in that, as viewed in a vehicle seat longitudinal direction, the first locating bearing is arranged behind the second locating bearing, and the second floating bearing is arranged in front of the first floating bearing.

5. The vehicle seat according to claim 1 , wherein the first scissor arm is connected by means of a first floating bearing to the vehicle seat upper part and by means of a third floating bearing to the vehicle seat lower part, and the second scissor arm is connected by means of a second floating bearing to the vehicle seat lower part and by means of a fourth floating bearing to the vehicle seat upper part, a first connecting element connecting the first scissor arm and the vehicle seat lower part to one another, and a second connecting element connecting the second scissor arm and the vehicle seat upper part to one another.

6. The vehicle seat according to claim 5 , wherein, in a vehicle seat longitudinal direction, the first floating bearing is arranged in front of the second floating bearing, and the third floating bearing is arranged in front of the fourth floating bearing; or in that, in a vehicle seat longitudinal direction, the first floating bearing is arranged behind the second floating bearing, and the third floating bearing is arranged behind the fourth floating bearing.

7. The vehicle seat according to claim 5 , wherein the spring element is a leaf spring element which is connected on one side to the spring element carrier in a flexurally stiff manner, and is connected in a sliding manner to the second scissor arm by means of the second connecting element; or which is connected fixedly on one side to the second connecting element so as to rotate with it and is connected in a sliding manner on the other side to the spring element carrier by way of a linear guide element in a vehicle seat longitudinal direction.

8. The vehicle seat according to claim 1 , wherein the spring element is an elastically deformable air spring which is connected to the spring element carrier and to the vehicle seat upper part or the vehicle seat lower part.

9. The vehicle seat according to claim 5 , wherein the spring element has a first tension spring and a second tension spring, the first tension spring being connected to the first scissor arm and the spring element carrier, and the second tension spring being connected to the second scissor arm and the spring element carrier.

10. The vehicle seat according to claim 1 , wherein the spring element carrier is of U-shaped configuration with a first limb, a second limb and a limb connection, a second rotational axis and a third rotational axis being at a same spacing from the limb connection as viewed in the direction of the limbs.

11. The vehicle seat according to claim 1 , wherein the first point and the second point are arranged above or below the first region as viewed in a vehicle seat vertical direction.

Assignees

• Grammer Ag

Inventors

• Dotzler Florian
• Haller Erwin
• Krivenkov Konstantin

Classifications

• B60N2/508

  Scissors-like structure · CPC title

• B60N2/1817 Primary

  Scissors-like structure · CPC title

• B60N2/525

  using gas · CPC title

• B60N2/544

  Compression or tension springs (B60N2/542 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B60N2/162 Primary

  Scissors-like structure · CPC title