Utility vehicle seat with a rotation adjustment device overload protection unit

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9227529-B2
Application number	US-201314109540-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 17, 2013
Priority date	Dec 18, 2012
Publication date	Jan 5, 2016
Grant date	Jan 5, 2016

Abstract

The invention relates to a utility vehicle seat with a seat part, with a backrest part and with a seat substructure for arrangement on a bodywork part of a utility vehicle. The seat substructure includes a rotation adjustment device for rotating at least the seat part with respect to the bodywork part with a ball bearing unit, and with a rotating shell part which is rotatable with respect to a stationary shell part. The utility vehicle seat further includes a rotation adjustment device overload protection unit with support elements by means of which the rotating shell part and the stationary shell part are additionally capable of being supported with respect to each other when the carrying capacity of one of the circular ball tracks reaches or exceeds a critical deformation value.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A utility vehicle seat, comprising:
a seat part, with a backrest part and with a seat substructure for arrangement on a bodywork part of a utility vehicle, in which the seat substructure comprises a rotation adjustment device for rotating at least the seat part with respect to the bodywork part with a ball bearing unit, with a stationary shell part and with a rotating shell part which is rotatable with respect to the stationary shell part, and in which the ball bearing unit includes at least one ball rim part which is arranged between the stationary shell part and the rotating shell part with respect to circular ball tracks of the stationary shell part and the rotating shell part, in such a way that the rotating shell part is arranged supported in a rotatably movable manner with respect to the stationary shell part, wherein a rotation adjustment device overload protection unit includes support elements which are arranged in a stationary manner with respect to the stationary shell part or the rotating shell part and by means of which the rotating shell part and the stationary shell part are additionally capable of being supported with respect to each other when the carrying capacity of one of the circular ball tracks reaches or exceeds a critical deformation value, wherein the support elements are produced in several pieces and comprise a sliding part and a spring part in each case, wherein the sliding part is arranged imbedded inside the spring part.

2. The utility vehicle seat according to claim 1 , wherein the support elements are designed in such a way that the support functions thereof start only when the rotating shell part and/or the stationary shell part or one of the circular ball tracks thereof reach or exceed a critical resilient deformation value.

3. The utility vehicle seat according to claim 1 , wherein the support elements are arranged without contact with respect to the rotating shell part or the stationary shell part in a non-critical deformation state of the rotating shell part and/or the stationary shell part.

4. The utility vehicle seat according to claim 1 , wherein the support elements have in each case a sliding support face which is arranged facing the rotating shell part or the stationary shell part.

5. The utility vehicle seat according to claim 4 , wherein the sliding support face is arranged plane-parallel to a sliding plane of the stationary shell part or the rotating shell part.

6. The utility vehicle seat according to claim 1 , wherein the support elements are arranged distributed outside the circular ball tracks and in the peripheral direction of the circular ball tracks.

7. The utility vehicle seat according to claim 1 , wherein the support elements are produced at least in part from a plastics material or a compound thereof.

8. A utility vehicle seat according to claim 1 , characterized in that the support elements are arranged in a sliding manner with respect to the rotating shell part or the stationary shell part in a non-critical deformation state of the rotating shell part and/or the stationary shell part.

9. A utility vehicle seat according to claim 1 , wherein the spring part is designed in a form of a disc spring part.

10. A utility vehicle seat according to claim 9 , wherein the disc spring part comprises a collar area for support on a carrier component.

Assignees

• Grammer Ag

Inventors

• Haller Erwin

Classifications

• B60N2/146

  characterised by the locking device · CPC title

• B60N2/062

  transversally slidable · CPC title

• B60N2/14 Primary

  rotatable, e.g. to permit easy access (B60N2/10 {, B60N2/2869} take precedence) · CPC title

• B60N2/508

  Scissors-like structure · CPC title

• B60N2/06

  slidable (B60N2/12 {, B60N2/2209} take precedence) · CPC title