IP Library Patent Application 13746065
Patent Application
App. No. 13/746,065

ADJUSTING DEVICE FOR ADJUSTING A MOTOR VEHICLE SEAT, MOTOR VEHICLE SEAT, MOTOR VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING A MOTOR VEHICLE SEAT

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13/746,065
Abstract

An adjusting device for adjusting a motor vehicle seat is provided. The adjusting device includes a locking device with a step-up transmission unit, a pulling force element configured for actuation and coupled to the step-up transmission unit and a resetting device configured to reset the step-up transmission unit into a starting state. The resetting device is at least partially integrated in the pulling force element. A motor vehicle seat, a motor vehicle, and a method for adjusting a motor vehicle seat using the adjusting device are also provided.

Claims (31)

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

a locking device comprises a step-up transmission device;

a pulling force element configured for actuation and coupled to the step-up transmission device;

a resetting device configured to reset the step-up transmission device into a starting state, wherein the resetting device is at least partially integrated in the pulling force element.

2 . The adjusting device according to claim 1 , wherein the adjusting device is a discontinuous adjusting device for adjusting a backrest position of the motor vehicle seat.

3 . The adjusting device according to claim 1 , wherein the pulling force element at least partially comprises an elastic portion that is elastic in a pulling direction.

4 . The adjusting device according to claim 3 , wherein the elastic portion is formed from an elastic material.

5 . The adjusting device according to claim 4 , wherein the elastic portion is formed from spring steel.

6 . The adjusting device according to claim 1 , wherein the resetting device comprises a deflection part in a connecting region of the pulling force element with the step-up transmission device, along which the pulling force element runs at least partially.

7 . The adjusting device according to claim 1 , wherein the step-up transmission device is a rotary lever configured to be rotated about a rotation axis.

8 . The adjusting device according to claim 7 , wherein the rotary lever is seated with play on the rotation axis in a play-affected manner.

9 . The adjusting device according to claim 8 , wherein the play of the rotary lever is dimensioned such that this corresponds to a tautening distance of the pulling force element, so that the pulling force element is brought from an untautened into a tautened state during movement within the play.

10 . The adjusting device according to claim 7 , wherein on the rotary lever of the step-up transmission device, two pulling force elements acting in different directions of rotation are arranged.

11 . The adjusting device according to claim 1 , further comprising an operating unit that is arranged spaced from the step-up transmission device.

12 . The adjusting device according to claim 11 , wherein the operating unit is a rotary lever configured to be rotated about a rotation axis.

13 . The adjusting device according to claim 1 , wherein a connecting point of the pulling force element with the step-up transmission device is spaced from a rotation axis at an end of a deflection device, so that a torque results on a contact point of the pulling force element and the deflection device.

14 . A motor vehicle seat having an adjusting device comprising:

a locking device comprising a step-up transmission unit;

a pulling force element configured for actuation and coupled to the step-up transmission unit; and

a resetting device configured to reset the step-up transmission unit into a starting state, wherein the resetting device is at least partially integrated in the pulling force element.

15 . The motor vehicle seat according to claim 14 , wherein the motor vehicle seat has a backrest that can be adjusted relative to a seat part.

16 . A motor vehicle having a seat unit for a vehicle occupant, wherein the seat unit is configured as motor vehicle seat with an adjusting device comprising:

a locking device comprising a step-up transmission unit;

a pulling force element configured for actuation and coupled to the step-up transmission unit; and

a resetting device configured to reset the step-up transmission unit into a starting state, wherein the resetting device is at least partially integrated in the pulling force element.

17 . The motor vehicle according to claim 16 , wherein the motor vehicle is a passenger motor vehicle.

18 . A method for adjusting a motor vehicle seat by means of an adjusting device having at least two locking devices, the method comprising the steps of:

moving an operating unit of the adjusting device;

during the moving, overcoming a play in a pulling force element coupled to the operating unit; and

tautening the pulling force element.

19 . The method according to claim 18 , wherein the adjusting device is a discontinuous adjusting device and the method results in the adjusting of a backrest position of the motor vehicle seat.

Assignments (3)
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Nov 7, 2014
From: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY
To: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
Reel/Frame 034287/0601 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Jun 12, 2014
From: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
To: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY
Reel/Frame 033135/0336 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 10, 2013
From: PLESKOT, ANDRZEJ
To: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
Reel/Frame 030188/0452 →