Vehicle seat slide device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9783082-B2
Application number	US-201615228155-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 4, 2016
Priority date	Aug 6, 2015
Publication date	Oct 10, 2017
Grant date	Oct 10, 2017

Abstract

A vehicle seat slide device includes: a lower rail including side wall portions provided to extend in a front-rear direction of a vehicle, a connecting wall portion connecting bottom ends of the side wall portions in a width direction, inward-extending wall portions overhanging from top ends of the side wall portions to inside in the width direction, and downward-extending wall portions overhanging downward from tips of the inward-extending wall portions; an upper rail including a main body portion and flanges; a locking member capable of restricting movement of the upper rail in the front-rear direction relative to the lower rail; and a reinforcement member bonded to a rear end of the lower rail and including a side wall reinforcement portion and an inward-extending wall reinforcement portion, and in which a cutout is formed in a rear end of the inward-extending wall reinforcement portion.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle seat slide device of a vehicle, comprising:
a lower rail which includes a pair of side wall portions provided to extend in a front-rear direction of a vehicle and provided to line up in a width direction of the vehicle seat slide device, a connecting wall portion which connects bottom ends of the side wall portions to each other in the width direction, a pair of inward-extending wall portions which overhang from top ends of the side wall portions to inside in the width direction in which the inward-extending wall portions approach each other, and a pair of downward-extending wall portions which overhang downward from tips of the inward-extending wall portions;
an upper rail which is joined to the lower rail that moves in the front-rear direction of the vehicle and includes a main body portion which is disposed between the downward-extending wall portions, and a pair of flanges which overhang from a tip of the main body portion to outside in the width direction in which the flanges separate from each other and are further folded to be surrounded by the side wall portions, the inward-extending wall portions, and the downward-extending wall portions;
a locking member that restricts movement of the upper rail in the front-rear direction of the vehicle relative to the lower rail; and
a reinforcement member which is bonded to a rear end of the lower rail, and includes a side wall reinforcement portion covering the side wall portion and an inward-extending wall reinforcement portion which overhangs from a top end of the side wall reinforcement portion to an inside in the width direction to cover the inward-extending wall portion, and in which a cutout is formed in a rear end of the inward-extending wall reinforcement portion such that peripheral parts of a corner portion formed by a rear end of the inward-extending wall portion and the tip of the inward-extending wall portion are exposed, and the rear end of the inward-extending wall reinforcement portion has a shortest width of the inward-extending wall reinforcement portion.

2. The vehicle seat slide device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the reinforcement member includes a pair of the side wall reinforcement portions and a pair of the inward-extending wall reinforcement portions, and
where the cutout is formed in each of the inward-extending wall reinforcement portions.

3. The vehicle seat slide device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the lower rail and the reinforcement member are bonded via a weld bonding portion, and
wherein the weld bonding portion is set to not be disposed at the cutout.

4. The vehicle seat slide device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the inward-extending wall reinforcement portion includes a removed portion by a removal of a portion of the inside in the width direction from a front-rear direction middle portion along a front end of the inward-extending wall reinforcement portion.

Assignees

• Aisin Seiki

Inventors

• Sato Takanori
• Kumagai Koji
• Kojima Yasuhiro

Classifications

• B60N2/0818

  inside the rail · CPC title

• B60N2/073

  Reinforcement members preventing slide dislocation · CPC title

• B60N2/0881

  Activation of the latches by the control mechanism · CPC title

• B60N2/0715

  C or U-shaped · CPC title

• B60N2/0806

  with pin alignment systems, e.g. with at least one of a plurality of locking pins always aligned w.r.t. at least one of a plurality of pin-receiving elements · CPC title