IP Library Granted Patent US 7,340,974
Granted Patent B2
US 7,340,974 · App. 11/319,087 · Granted Mar 11, 2008

Spindle gear for an adjusting device in a motor vehicle seat

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Patent No.
US 7,340,974
App. No.
11/319,087
Granted
Mar 11, 2008
Kind
B2
Abstract

A spindle gear for a motor vehicle seat adjusting device having a housing, a spindle nut, a spindle and a worm wheel. The spindle nut may have an external bearing surface and a bearing shell may include an internal bearing surface cooperating with the external bearing surface. The spindle nut may have a slide lacquer coat. The spindle nut may have an external bearing surface and a stop disk may be attached to the external bearing surface so as to surround it. A projection may engage a corresponding spindle nut recess. The housing may comprise at least two housing parts made of zinc diecasting. The external teeth of the spindle nut may form a globoidal gear. The external spindle nut teeth may have an outer diameter that is smallest in an axial center thereof and increases toward the axial end regions.

Claims (10)

1. A spindle gear for an adjusting device in a motor vehicle seat, said spindle gear comprising

a spindle having a longitudinally extending thread,

a housing,

a spindle nut, which is arranged within the housing, is rotatable within the housing, has an internal thread matching the thread of the spindle and comprises external teeth, and

a worm wheel that is arranged within the housing, is rotatable within the housing and comprises of a worm that meshes with the external teeth of the spindle nut,

wherein the spindle nut comprises at least one external bearing surface that is axially offset relative to the external teeth, a stop disk is provided that is attached to said external bearing surface to surround it, and the stop disk has a projection which engages into a corresponding recess of the spindle nut and forms an antirotation lock,

wherein the projection engages between two neighboring teeth of the external teeth of the spindle nut.

2. The spindle gear according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one external surface of the spindle nut is cylindrical and two bearing surfaces are provided, the external teeth being located between the two bearing surfaces.

3. The spindle gear according to claim 1 , wherein a bearing shell has an outer border and the housing forms a receiving groove mating with said outer border.

4. The spindle gear according to claim 1 , wherein the spindle gear is for a lengthwise adjustment device of a motor vehicle seat.

Assignments (4)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jul 30, 2021
From: ADIENT YANFENG SEATING MECHANISM CO., LTD
To: KEIPER SEATING MECHANISMS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 057037/0905 →
NUNC PRO TUNC ASSIGNMENT Recorded Jul 30, 2021
From: ADIENT LUXEMBOURG HOLDING S.À.R.L.
To: ADIENT YANFENG SEATING MECHANISM CO., LTD
Reel/Frame 057037/0931 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 29, 2021
From: JOHNSON CONTROLS METALS AND MECHANISMS GMBH & CO. KG
To: ADIENT LUXEMBOURG HOLDING S.A R.L.
Reel/Frame 055170/0344 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Nov 24, 2020
From: C. ROB. HAMMERSTEIN GMBH & CO. KG
To: JOHNSON CONTROLS METALS AND MECHANISMS GMBH & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 055026/0770 →