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Granted Patent B2
US 12,454,202 · App. 18/016,952 · Granted Oct 28, 2025

Vehicle seat console

Inventor: Dieter Strasser (Oberhausen, DE)
Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
B60N2/062B60N2/065B60N2/074B60N2002/0208
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Patent No.
US 12,454,202
App. No.
18/016,952
Granted
Oct 28, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A vehicle seat base, also known as a console, movably attaches a vehicle seat on a vehicle interior floor. The vehicle seat is movably arranged parallel to the vehicle longitudinal direction and parallel to the vehicle lateral direction via a first rail assembly running parallel to the vehicle longitudinal direction and a second rail assembly running parallel to the vehicle lateral direction. The vehicle interior floor has a step running in the vehicle lateral direction that divides the floor in the vehicle longitudinal direction into a first floor region lying at a lower height and a second floor region lying at a higher height, and the floor is constricted by wheel housings that penetrate into the floor from the respective exterior, behind the vehicle seat. The second rail assembly ascends towards the vertical vehicle longitudinal central plane from the vehicle exterior running parallel to the vehicle longitudinal direction.

Claims (24)

1 . A vehicle seat console for movably attaching a reclinable vehicle seat in a vehicle which has a vehicle body, comprising:

a vehicle body base structure that forms a vehicle interior base on which the reclinable vehicle seat is movably arranged parallel to a longitudinal vehicle direction and parallel to a transverse vehicle direction via at least a first rail arrangement which extends parallel to the longitudinal vehicle direction and at least a second rail arrangement which extends parallel to the transverse vehicle direction,

wherein the vehicle interior base has a step which extends in the transverse vehicle direction and which subdivides the vehicle interior base in the longitudinal vehicle direction into a lower first base region and a higher second base region,

wherein the vehicle interior base is constricted behind the reclinable vehicle seat by way of wheel housings which penetrate from the respective outer side, and

wherein the second rail arrangement rises from an outer vehicle side which extends parallel to the longitudinal vehicle direction toward a vertical vehicle longitudinal center plane,

wherein a control device is configured to move the reclinable vehicle seat in both the longitudinal vehicle direction and the transverse vehicle direction to perform seat adjustment.

2 . The vehicle seat console according to claim 1 , wherein

for seat adjustment, the control device is constructed such that the vehicle seat, when displaced from a front seat position into a reclining or resting position which is inclined toward the rear, is initially displaced relative to the vertical vehicle longitudinal center plane and is, in this instance, raised parallel to the vehicle vertical axis direction and subsequently displaced to the rear parallel to the longitudinal vehicle direction.

3 . The vehicle seat console according to claim 1 , wherein

for seat adjustment, the control device is constructed such that the vehicle seat, when displaced from a front seat position into a reclining or resting position which is inclined toward the rear, is initially displaced relative to the vehicle longitudinal center plane and is, in this instance, raised parallel to the vehicle vertical axis direction and synchronously or subsequently the vehicle seat backrest is inclined toward the rear.

4 . A vehicle seat comprising a vehicle seat console according to claim 1 .

5 . A vehicle comprising at least one vehicle seat according to claim 4 .

6 . A vehicle seat console for movably attaching a vehicle seat in a vehicle which has a vehicle body, comprising:

a vehicle body base structure that forms a vehicle interior base on which the vehicle seat is movably arranged parallel to a longitudinal vehicle direction and parallel to a transverse vehicle direction via at least a first rail arrangement which extends parallel to the longitudinal vehicle direction and at least a second rail arrangement which extends parallel to the transverse vehicle direction,

wherein the vehicle interior base has a step which extends in the transverse vehicle direction and which subdivides the vehicle interior base in the longitudinal vehicle direction into a lower first base region and a higher second base region,

wherein the vehicle interior base is constricted behind the at least one vehicle seat by way of wheel housings which penetrate from the respective outer side, and

wherein the second rail arrangement rises from an outer vehicle side which extends parallel to the longitudinal vehicle direction toward a vertical vehicle longitudinal center plane,

wherein the first rail arrangement has at least one lower guiding element which is connected to the base structure and at least one upper guiding element which is connected to the second rail arrangement, of which at least one is in the form of a lower guide rail.

7 . A vehicle seat console for movably attaching a vehicle seat in a vehicle which has a vehicle body, comprising:

a vehicle body base structure that forms a vehicle interior base on which the vehicle seat is movably arranged parallel to a longitudinal vehicle direction and parallel to a transverse vehicle direction via at least a first rail arrangement which extends parallel to the longitudinal vehicle direction and at least a second rail arrangement which extends parallel to the transverse vehicle direction,

wherein the vehicle interior base has a step which extends in the transverse vehicle direction and which subdivides the vehicle interior base in the longitudinal vehicle direction into a lower first base region and a higher second base region,

wherein the vehicle interior base is constricted behind the at least one vehicle seat by way of wheel housings which penetrate from the respective outer side, and

wherein the second rail arrangement rises from an outer vehicle side which extends parallel to the longitudinal vehicle direction toward a vertical vehicle longitudinal center plane,

wherein the second rail arrangement has at least one lower guiding element which is connected to the first rail arrangement and at least one upper guiding element which is connected to the vehicle seat, of which at least one is in the form of an upper guide rail.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 31, 2023
From: STRASSER, DIETER
To: BAYERISCHE MOTOREN WERKE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
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Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2020 123 609.3 · Sep 10, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230347796A1 · Nov 2, 2023
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