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US 12,109,920 · App. 17/823,124 · Granted Oct 8, 2024

Adjusting device for a vehicle seat and vehicle seat

Inventors: Oliver Kuntz (Wermelskirchen, DE); Van-Toan Ho (Solingen, DE); Frank Schlueter (Moers, DE); Igor Gordeenko (Frechen, DE)
Assignee: Adient US LLC
B60N2/2251
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12,109,920
App. No.
17/823,124
Filed
Aug 30, 2022
Granted
Oct 8, 2024
Kind
B2
Art Unit
3636
USPC
297/344.12
Abstract

An adjusting device for a vehicle seat for adjusting a component of the vehicle seat, may have a tube, a motor and a pinion which is drivable by the motor. The motor and the pinion may be arranged in the tube. In addition, a vehicle seat may have a transverse tube, a component which is movable relative to the transverse tube and the adjusting device for adjusting the component relative to the transverse tube.

Claims (18)

1. An adjusting device for a vehicle seat for adjusting a component of the vehicle seat, the device comprising:

a tube,

a motor and

a pinion which is drivable by the motor,

wherein the motor and the pinion are arranged in the tube,

wherein the tube has a window adjacent the pinion and a toothed segment of the adjusting device extends into the window to engage the pinion.

2. The adjusting device according to claim 1 , wherein the motor drives the pinion by a gear mechanism.

3. The adjusting device according to claim 2 , wherein the gear mechanism is arranged in the tube.

4. The adjusting device according to claim 2 , wherein the gear mechanism has at least one gear stage.

5. The adjusting device according to claim 4 , wherein at least one of said at least one gear stage is configured as a planetary gear stage.

6. The adjusting device according to claim 2 , wherein the gear mechanism has a plurality of gear stages.

7. The adjusting device according to claim 4 , wherein all of the gear stages of the at least one gear stage are configured as planetary gear stages.

8. A vehicle seat having a transverse tube and the adjusting device according to claim 1 , the adjusting device arranged for adjusting the toothed segment relative to the transverse tube.

9. The vehicle seat according to claim 8 , wherein the transverse tube is formed by the tube of the adjusting device.

10. The vehicle seat according to claim 8 , wherein the toothed segment cooperates with the pinion such that the component and the transverse tube are movable relative to one another.

11. The vehicle seat according to claim 8 , wherein the component is a constituent part of an adjustment kinematics of the vehicle seat.

12. The vehicle seat according to claim 11 , wherein the adjustment kinematics comprise at least one four link arrangement for a height adjustment of the vehicle seat.

13. The vehicle seat according to claim 8 , wherein the constituent part comprises a base of height-adjustment kinematics of the vehicle seat.