Improved manual vehicle seat

A seat and vehicle technology, which is applied to vehicle seats, movable seats, vehicle parts, etc., can solve the problem of not allowing free manual adjustment of seats.

Inactive Publication Date: 2013-07-10
FORD GLOBAL TECH LLC
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However, usually automatic and electric seats with actuators do not allow the freedom to manually adjust the seat (excluding manual controls for this function)

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[0034] figure 1 A vehicle manual seat 10 is shown comprising a first seat portion in the form of a fixed support rail 12 and a second or base portion 14 . The base portion 14 is linearly movable in either direction along the rail 12 for forward / backward adjustment of the position of the seat 10 .

[0035] In another embodiment, the second seat part is a backrest part 16 pivotable relative to the base part 14, and in this embodiment the base part 14 is the first seat part.

[0036] Such as figure 2 and image 3 As shown, sensing means in the form of a linear potentiometer 20 is provided at the junction of the rail 12 and the base portion 14 . A potentiometer is a variable resistor with sliding or rotating contacts forming an adjustable voltage divider. Potentiometers are simple and inexpensive components that are often used to control electrical devices such as volume controls (rotary dials and linear attenuators) on audio instruments.

[0037] Potentiometer 20 includes a...

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A manual vehicle seat has a first seat portion and a second seat portion which is movably coupled to the first seat portion, a sensing device providing a signal corresponding to at least one position of the second seat portion relative to the first seat portion, a memory device storing at least one value representative of a preferred position of the second seat portion relative to the first seat portion, and an alert means alerting a user when the user is adjusting the seat position that the signal value provided by the sensing device corresponds to the stored value.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a vehicle manual seat. In particular, but not exclusively, the present invention relates to an improved manual vehicle seat having means for assisting the user in properly adjusting the position of the seat for a particular user. Background technique [0002] The position of a modern vehicle seat can often be adjusted in a number of different ways, including adjusting the backrest angle, fore-aft position, lumbar position, seat height, and more. For example, a user may operate a control such as a lever or dial to rotate the back portion of the seat about a pivot pin to adjust the angle. Alternatively, the base portion of the seat may be released from its support rails and moved linearly along the rails in a forward or rearward direction before re-engaging the rails. The combination of these parameters yields a large number of possible overall seat positions. [0003] A known problem is that many vehicles are shared by more t...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): B60N2/02
CPCB60N2/02B60N2/06B60N2/0272B60N2/04B60N2/123B60N2/20B60N2/22
Inventor 史蒂夫·戴维·弗莱明约翰·K·哈丁安迪·约翰·默里艾丽西娅·阿吉厄斯埃德·斯塔布斯
Owner FORD GLOBAL TECH LLC
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