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Granted Patent B2
US 12,351,081 · App. 18/337,305 · Granted Jul 8, 2025

Slide device

Inventors: Kenichi Katsube (Yokohama, JP); Tsuyoshi Matsuzawa (Yokohama, JP); Shinya Sawa (Yokohama, JP); Junichi Nakayama (Yokohama, JP)
Assignee: NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
B60N2/0715B60N2/0725
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Patent No.
US 12,351,081
App. No.
18/337,305
Granted
Jul 8, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A slide device including: a fixed rail; a movable rail; a belt-shaped cover member including a coupling plate coupled to the movable rail at an end portion of the belt-shaped cover member, the belt-shaped cover member closing an opening groove of the fixed rail between a longitudinal end portion of the fixed rail and the movable rail; and a slide cover that covers a periphery of a side edge portion of the cover member, wherein the slide cover includes: an upper wall; a lower wall; and a rib disposed along a sliding direction of the movable rail and protruding in a direction toward the side edge portion of the cover member, on at least one of a surface of the upper wall facing the side edge portion of the cover member or a surface of the lower wall facing the side edge portion of the cover member.

Claims (18)

1. A slide device, comprising:

a fixed rail including an opening groove in an upper portion of the fixed rail;

a movable rail slidably coupled to the fixed rail;

a belt-shaped cover member including a coupling plate coupled to the movable rail at an end portion of the belt-shaped cover member, the belt-shaped cover member closing the opening groove between a longitudinal end portion of the fixed rail and the movable rail; and

a slide cover that covers a periphery of a side edge portion of the cover member, wherein the slide cover includes:

an upper wall facing an upper surface of the side edge portion of the cover member;

a lower wall facing a lower surface of the side edge portion of the cover member; and

a rib disposed along a sliding direction of the movable rail and protruding in a direction toward the side edge portion of the cover member, on at least one of a surface of the upper wall facing the side edge portion of the cover member or a surface of the lower wall facing the side edge portion of the cover member,

wherein the rib comprises:

an upper wall-side rib provided on the surface of the upper wall, the upper wall-side rib facing the side edge portion of the cover member; and

a lower wall-side rib provided on the surface of the lower wall, the lower wall-side rib facing the side edge portion of the cover member,

wherein the upper wall-side rib and the lower wall-side rib are disposed such that at least a part of the upper wall-side rib and a part of the lower wall-side rib face each other in a vertical direction with respect to a direction in which the side edge portion of the cover member interposed between the upper wall-side rib and the lower wall-side rib extends.

2. The slide device according to claim 1 , wherein at least a part of the side edge portion of the cover member is sandwiched between the upper wall-side rib and the lower wall-side rib.

3. The slide device according to claim 1 , further comprising a reel rotatably attached to the longitudinal end portion of the fixed rail and around which the cover member is wound.

4. The slide device according to claim 1 , wherein the coupling plate is configured by a rectangular plate-like body attached to an end portion of the cover member on a side of the movable rail, and both end surfaces of the coupling plate in a width direction intersecting with the sliding direction extend along the rib adjacent to both the end surfaces.

5. The slide device according to claim 1 , wherein:

the movable rail includes a coupling piece adjusted such that a length in a width direction intersecting the sliding direction gradually decreases from a proximal end portion toward a distal end portion, and

the coupling plate includes a coupling hole into which the coupling piece is inserted, the coupling hole having a length in a direction along the width direction that is shorter than a length in the width direction at the proximal end portion of the coupling piece.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 22, 2023
From: KATSUBE, KENICHI; MATSUZAWA, TSUYOSHI; SAWA, SHINYA; NAKAYAMA, JUNICHI
To: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 064030/0407 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2022-102110 · Jun 24, 2022 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230415616A1 · Dec 28, 2023
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