Vehicle Seat Slide Attachment Structure for Impact-Resistant Floor Mounting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vehicle seat slides lack reliable and simple attachment to the floor, often requiring additional parts and compromising impact resistance.
Innovation Solution
The slide design features two parallel slots in the bottom and side walls that engage with a support structure, along with aligned holes for attachment parts, ensuring secure integration with the floor and eliminating the need for extra components, while the support maintains space between the slide and floor.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If additional attachment parts are used to secure the slide to the floor, then the attachment reliability is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates the attachment function directly into the support structure by forming attachment holes in the support body itself, merging the support and attachment mechanisms into a single integrated component. This eliminates the need for separate attachment parts while maintaining secure fastening to the floor.
Solution Approach 2:
The support structure serves dual functions: it provides mechanical support for the adjustment screw and simultaneously provides integrated attachment holes for securing the slide to the floor. The structure attaches itself without requiring external attachment components.
2Stability of the object's composition
If additional parts are used to maintain space between the slide and floor, then the structural integrity is improved, but the manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The support body integrates multiple functions including maintaining space between the slide and floor, supporting the adjustment screw, and providing attachment points. This consolidation into a single component simplifies manufacturing while ensuring structural integrity through the unified design.
3Ease of manufacture
If the support structure is simplified to reduce complexity, then the manufacturing ease is improved, but the impact resistance deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The support structure is designed with distinct functional zones: side walls for guiding the adjustment screw, a body for maintaining space and providing attachment points, and integrated attachment holes. This segmentation of functions within a simple unified structure achieves both manufacturing ease and impact resistance.
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure relates to a slide comprising a fixed profile and a movable profile mounted on the fixed profile so as to slide in a longitudinal direction, the slide comprising a longitudinal adjustment screw, the fixed profile presenting a bottom having an outer face opposite the adjustment screw, the adjustment screw having one end integral with a support which comprises two longitudinal side walls able to receive the end. The bottom comprises two longitudinal parallel slots, and the bottom and the support each have a hole which are in line with one another and are able to receive an attachment part for attaching the fixed profile to the floor of a vehicle when the side walls are engaged in the slots with the rest of the support facing the outer face.