Seat Mounting Bracket for Aligning Removable Vehicle Sliders
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Solution Overview
Problem
Removable vehicle seats with laterally adjustable sliders face challenges in alignment during installation due to their independent nature, leading to cumbersome and potentially incorrect installation processes.
Innovation Solution
The use of seat mounting brackets that align and secure independent front and rear seat sliders relative to each other, ensuring consistent positioning and reducing manual manipulation of seat components during installation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If seat sliders are made independent and separable for removable seats, then seat flexibility and reconfigurability are improved, but alignment precision and installation ease deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
A alignment tool serves as an intermediary device between the independent seat sliders during installation. The tool includes alignment features that engage with corresponding features on the seat sliders to guide and maintain proper relative positioning. This mediator enables precise alignment of separable components without requiring the components themselves to have built-in alignment mechanisms, thus preserving both independence and alignability.
Solution Approach 2:
The alignment tool is prepared and positioned in advance before the seat sliders are installed onto the seat tracks. By establishing the correct spatial relationship and orientation of the alignment features beforehand, the tool pre-establishes the proper alignment geometry that will be transferred to the seat sliders during the installation process, ensuring precision without requiring complex adjustments during assembly.
2Adaptability or versatility
If seat sliders are separated during seat removal, then seat removability is improved, but installation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The alignment tool acts as a mediator that simplifies the installation process of separable seat sliders. By providing pre-configured alignment features and guidance structures, the tool reduces the procedural complexity and skill level required for proper installation, making the process more straightforward despite the separable nature of the components.
Solution Approach 2:
The alignment tool is designed to be self-aligning through its geometric features that automatically guide the seat sliders into correct positioning. The alignment features on the tool work passively to establish proper orientation and spacing, reducing the need for active adjustment or complex manual alignment procedures by the installer.
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AI summary
A seat mounting apparatus of a vehicle, including a plurality of seat tracks mounted in the vehicle; a plurality of seat sliders at least equal in number to a number of the plurality of seat tracks, each of the plurality of seat sliders being slidable along one of the plurality of seat tracks; and a seat mounting bracket that aligns and fixes a relative position in the direction of a number of the plurality of seat sliders equal to the number of the plurality of seat tracks.