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Granted Patent B2
US 11,192,470 · App. 16/685,443 · Granted Dec 7, 2021

Vehicle device system

Inventors: Simon Bork (Calberlah, DE); Sebastian Alisch (Braunschweig, DE)
Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
B60N2/0715B60N2/002B60N2/071B60N2/5678B60N3/001B60R16/03B60R21/207B60R22/195
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 11,192,470
App. No.
16/685,443
Granted
Dec 7, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A vehicle device system for a motor vehicle, having at least one vehicle device, in particular a vehicle seat or vehicle table, and comprising a mount fastened or fastenable to a vehicle body for detachably locking the vehicle device to the vehicle body, and comprising a key-operated switch, which establishes or interrupts at least one electrical contact between the vehicle device and the vehicle depending on its switching position. It is provided that the key-operated switch is fastened on the vehicle device, which is longitudinally displaceably mounted/mountable on the mount, and interacts with a contact carriage, which is longitudinally displaceably mounted on the mount.

Claims (17)

1. A vehicle device system for a motor vehicle, the system comprising:

at least one vehicle device;

a mount fastened or fastenable to a vehicle body for detachably locking the vehicle device to the vehicle body; and

a key-operated switch that establishes or interrupts at least one electrical contact between the vehicle device and the vehicle as a function of a switching position,

wherein the key-operated switch is fastened on the vehicle device, which is longitudinally displaceably mountable on the mount and interacts with a contact carriage that is longitudinally displaceably mounted on the mount.

2. The vehicle device system according to claim 1 , wherein the mount has a longitudinal guide for the longitudinal displacement of the vehicle device as well as a guide rail, which extends in parallel to the longitudinal guide and longitudinally displaceably carries the contact carriage.

3. The vehicle device system according to claim 2 , wherein the guide rail has a guide groove provided with a C-shaped design in cross section, and wherein the contact carriage has a T-shaped guide profile held in the guide groove.

4. The vehicle device system according to claim 1 , wherein the key-operated switch has a closing cylinder, which is mechanically connected to a locking lever and is adapted to be brought into engagement with or disengagement from the contact carriage at least by a rotational movement of the closing cylinder.

5. The vehicle device system according to claim 4 , wherein the locking lever and/or the closing cylinder are axially displaceable for the engagement or disengagement, with respect to a rotation axis of the closing cylinder.

6. The vehicle device system according to claim 4 , wherein the vehicle device has a guide element, on which the closing cylinder and the locking lever are mounted.

7. The vehicle device system according to claim 6 , wherein one or multiple electric physical contact elements is/are arranged on the guide element and/or on the locking lever and is/are electrically connected to one or multiple electrical assemblies of the vehicle device.

8. The vehicle device system according to claim 7 , wherein the contact carriage has one or multiple physical mating contact elements, which is/are electrically connectable to a control unit of the motor vehicle and is/are in electrical physical contact with at least one of the electric physical contact elements in at least one switching position of the key-operated switch.

9. The vehicle device system according to claim 8 , wherein, a winding system and/or a flexible conductor strip for electrical conductors which connect the physical mating contact elements to the control unit, is/are assigned to the contact carriage.

10. The vehicle device system according to claim 8 , wherein the contact carriage includes at least one microswitch, which is actuatable by the key-operated switch and is connected to the control unit.

11. The vehicle device system according to claim 8 , wherein at least one of the electric physical contacts contact elements or the physical mating contact elements is spring-mounted.

12. The vehicle device system according to claim 8 , wherein the control unit is configured to detect a completed contacting of the one or multiple assemblies of the vehicle device.

13. The vehicle device system according to claim 1 , wherein the vehicle device is a vehicle seat and has, as assemblies: a control unit, a seat heater, a seat cooling system, a seat occupancy sensor, a seatbelt tightening assembly, a seat adjusting assembly, a seatbelt lock and/or an airbag assembly.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 7, 2020
From: BORK, SIMON; ALISCH, SEBASTIAN
To: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Reel/Frame 051439/0590 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2017 208 446.4 · May 18, 2017 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTEP2018062662 · May 16, 2018
Related Publication 20200079243A1 · Mar 12, 2020
Cited By (1)
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