Slide position detecting device for vehicle seat

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9939296-B2
Application number	US-201615251501-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 30, 2016
Priority date	Sep 7, 2015
Publication date	Apr 10, 2018
Grant date	Apr 10, 2018

Abstract

In a slide position detecting device for a vehicle seat, an angle between a bottom plate portion and a side plate portion of an attachment bracket is set to a maximum angle in a range of an angle between a bottom wall portion and a side wall portion of a seat-side member; rigidity maintaining the angle between the bottom plate portion and the side plate portion is set to be lower than rigidity maintaining the angle between the bottom wall portion and the side wall portion; and when the side plate portion is fixed to the side wall portion, the bottom plate portion contacts the bottom wall portion or a top face portion of an upper rail, and is fixed in a state where the angle between the bottom plate portion and the side plate portion coincides with the angle between the bottom wall portion and the side wall portion.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A slide position detecting device for a vehicle seat, comprising:
a magnetic detector disposed in one of a lower rail and an upper rail, the lower rail being fixed to a body of a vehicle, the upper rail being fixed to the vehicle seat and fitted to the lower rail so as to be slidable in a front-rear direction;
a detected portion disposed in the other of the lower rail and the upper rail; and
an attachment bracket including a bottom plate portion and a side plate portion combined with the bottom plate portion, wherein
the upper rail includes a top face portion and a pair of side face portions combined with the top face portion, the upper rail having a sectional shape in a right-left direction that is a reverse U-shape opened downward,
a bottom wall portion of a seat-side member that includes the bottom wall portion and a side wall portion combined with the bottom wall portion is attached to a top face of the top face portion in a state where the side wall portion is disposed on a side of one end of the top face portion in the right-left direction such that the side wall portion extends upward,
one of the magnetic detector and the detected portion is disposed on a side of another end of the top face portion in the right-left direction and is attached to the side wall portion of the seat-side member via the attachment bracket,
a first angle between the bottom plate portion and the side plate portion of the attachment bracket is equal to or larger than a second angle between the bottom wall portion and the side wall portion of the seat-side member,
rigidity that maintains the angle between the bottom plate portion and the side plate portion of the attachment bracket is set to be lower than rigidity that maintains the angle between the bottom wall portion and the side wall portion of the seat-side member, and
when the side plate portion of the attachment bracket is fastened and fixed to the side wall portion of the seat-side member, the bottom plate portion of the attachment bracket contacts one of the bottom wall portion of the seat-side member and the top face portion of the upper rail, and is fixed in a state where the angle between the bottom plate portion and the side plate portion of the attachment bracket coincides with the angle between the bottom wall portion and the side wall portion of the seat-side member.

2. The slide position detecting device according to claim 1 , wherein
a weakened portion that weakens the rigidity that maintains the angle between the bottom plate portion and the side plate portion of the attachment bracket is provided in one of the bottom plate portion and the side plate portion at a position in a vicinity of a connected part between the bottom plate portion and the side plate portion.

3. The slide position detecting device according to claim 1 , wherein
an end portion of the bottom plate portion of the attachment bracket on a side opposite to the side plate portion is provided with an attachment seat portion extending upward and facing the side plate portion, and
the one of the magnetic detector and the detected portion is attached to the attachment seat portion.

4. The slide position detecting device according to claim 3 , wherein
a projecting rib continuously extending from the bottom plate portion to the attachment seat portion of the attachment bracket is provided on an inner side of the attachment bracket.

5. The slide position detecting device according to claim 1 , wherein
a part of the side plate portion is fastened to the side wall portion of the seat-side member with a bolt, and the part is disposed between a front end and a rear end of the bottom plate portion of the attachment bracket.

6. The slide position detecting device according to claim 1 , wherein
the seat-side member has an L-shaped section in the right-left direction by combining the bottom wall portion and the side wall portion, and
the attachment bracket has an L-shaped section in the right-left direction by combining the bottom plate portion and the side plate portion.

7. The slide position detecting device according to claim 1 , wherein the attachment bracket is thinner than the seat-side member.

Assignees

• Toyota Boshoku Kk

Inventors

• Kitou Hidekazu
• Ono Tatsuya

Classifications

• G01D11/30 Primary

  Supports specially adapted for an instrument; Supports specially adapted for a set of instruments · CPC title

• B64D11/0639

  with features for adjustment or converting of seats · CPC title

• B60N2/06

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

• B64D11/0696

  Means for fastening seats to floors, e.g. to floor rails · CPC title

• B61D33/0078

  adjustably mounted · CPC title