Abstract: A mounting arrangement for a vehicle seat assembly including an electrically operated seat adjusting device which permits expedient fastening of the seat assembly to a vehicle floor and which essentially consists of lockable engaging connections provided on at least one side of the seat adjusting device as the fastening mechanism between the seat adjusting device and the vehicle floor and/or between a seat shell of the seat assembly and the seat adjusting device. On the opposite side of the seat adjusting device there are provided fastening connections preferably formed as screw connections which may be tightened to lock said engaging connections for a firm fastening of the assembly. The seat adjusting device is adapted to be manually operated by an auxiliary actuating device in the event of malfunction of elements thereof such as drive motors, gear units or interconnecting flexible shafts.

Abstract: A seat adjustment mechanism especially suited for motor vehicle seats is composed of at least one motor mechanism for adjustably moving a seat member through a drive connection having at least two mutually engaging force transmission parts. In order to avoid rattling of the adjustment mechanism when adjusting movement of the seat is to be effected in a direction where the adjusting movement is abetted by the weight of the seat member itself, a braking device is provided which counteracts the adjusting force of the motor mechanism applied in that direction.

Abstract: In a driving gear, a wheel is mounted on a supporting plate. The wheel has a rim with teeth on its inside surface and a pinion mounted on the supporting plate is in meshed engagement with the teeth. A housing, attached to the supporting plate, encloses the wheel. Entrainment surfaces on the outside circumference of the wheel engage an elongated power take-off member supported within and extending through the housing.

Abstract: A positionally adjustable holding device for an engaging member of a safety belt includes a holding track with an elongated slot formed in one wall of the track. Outwardly extending bulges are located at spaced locations along the slot. An engaging member is arranged to be connected to one end of the safety belt and a sliding member is coupled to the engaging member. The sliding member includes a retractable locking pin which is selectively engageable in the bulges or recesses in the slot.

Abstract: A drive unit for winding and unwinding a transport cable for a safety belt includes a motor driven take-up roll positioned within a housing and rotatable about a winding axis. The take-up roll has a radially outwardly facing surface encircling the winding axis. A casing encloses the take-up roll and has a radially inwardly facing surface spaced outwardly from the radially outwardly facing surface. When the cable is wound into the housing it winds onto the radially outwardly facing surface and when it is unwound it contacts the radially inwardly facing surface on the casing. The radially inwardly facing surface is frusto-conical in the direction of the winding axis with the larger diameter portion of the surface located closer to the opening from the housing through which the cable passes. Adjacent its larger diameter end, the radially inwardly facing surface has a circumferentially and radially extending step for preventing bending or kinking of the cable.

Abstract: A device for driving a rope-like power transmission member for a window lifting mechanism, such as in a motor vehicle, includes a casing with a worm rotatably supported within the casing, a worm gear in the casing and in engagement with the worm and an electric motor driving the worm. A rope drum is positioned within the casing and a coupling part interconnects the drum and the worm gear. The casing has an opening for moving the rope out of the casing. A sealing plate is located between the worm gear and the coupling part and divides the interior of the casing into a first partial space containing the worm and worm gear and a second partial space containing the drum and the coupling part. The sealing plate is arranged in form-locking engagement with the worm gear and it has an annular area facing toward the drum which is in contact with an annular area on the inner surface of the casing.

Abstract: A drive mechanism for the window of a motor vehicle having a driven base member with the window affixed thereto and guided for movement along a longitudinal guide rail is activated by a driving member which is connected with the base member to drive the base member along the guide rail. A guide flange provided on the guide rail is engaged with slide elements formed on the base member which are arranged to rest against the sides of the guide rail and at least one of the slide elements is formed with a flexible construction. The slide elements include a pair of lateral slide elements arranged spaced apart in the longitudinal direction of the guide rail which rest against one side of the guide flange and a central slide element arranged between the lateral slide elements which rests against the other side of the guide flange.

Abstract: A window cable driving mechanism particularly for an automotive vehicle, including a base plate, a cable drum supported on one side of the base plate and a bracket extending about the cable drum attached with the base plate, is formed so that the bracket has defined thereon at least one bearing for the cable drum. Cylindrical rolling surfaces formed at axial ends of the cable drum include a cylindrical rolling surface facing away from the base plate. The bracket is constructed with at least one bearing surface which supports at least the cylindrical rolling surface facing away from the base plate.

Abstract: An adjustable vehicle seat has an upholstered seat frame and an upholstered back frame. The seat frame is mounted on the vehicle frame independently of the back frame and is adjustable in a heightwise, longitudinally and in an inclined manner with respect to the vehicle frame. The upholstery is displaceable with respect to the seat frame, as well as the back frame.

Abstract: Adjusting mechanism for a seat, particularly a seat of an automotive vehicle, in which the seat rests on carriers elongated in the direction of shifting movement, seat shifting guides being interposed, and the carriers being equipped with integrally connected, upwardly directed lugs which laterally back the seat shifting guides.

Abstract: An electrical window lift drive especially for use in a motor vehicle, includes a drive housing, an electric motor attached to the housing having a shaft extending into the interior of the housing. A worm gear is mounted on the motor shaft for rotation thereby. A worm wheel is mounted for independent rotation coaxially with respect to a first portion of a bearing shaft inside the housing on a member intermediate the bearing shaft and the wheel. The bearing shaft is supported in the housing on both sides of the worm wheel and extends transversely of the motor shaft. The worm wheel meshes with and is driven by the worm gear. A drive member is mounted coaxially with respect to a second portion of the bearing shaft, and means are provided intermediate the worm gear and the drive member for transferring rotary motion of the worm gear to the drive member.

Abstract: A device for passive actuation of a safety belt includes a motor-driven force transmission member. An engaging member for the safety belt can be connected to the force transmission member by a manually releasable pin member. The force transmission member moves the engaging member and with it the safety belt into a locked position. The locked position can be released automatically or manually. The engaging member can be moved manually along the force transmission member when the driving connection is released.

Abstract: In an adjusting device for a seat in a motor vehicle, a sliding seat guiding mechanism moves the seat in a generally horizontal direction. The guide mechanism includes an upper part secured to the seat and a support member secured to the floor of the vehicle. A rack is attached to the upper part and is driven by a pinion mounted on the support member for moving the seat in the generally horizontal direction. The rack is adjustably mounted on the upper part to permit limited movement of the rack in the generally vertical direction disposed transversely of the generally horizontal direction of movement of the seat so that proper engagement of the rack and the pinion is assured.

Abstract: A device for passive actuation of a safety belt includes an elongated force transmission member with an engaging member secured to the transmission member so that a certain amount of play is present in the elongated direction between the transmission member and the engaging member. A locking device is arranged to receive and secure the engaging member in the locked position. A release member is secured to the force transmission member so that it moves with the transmission member while the transmission member moves relative to the engaging member whereby the release member can contact and displace the locking device out of locking contact with the engaging member. With the engaging member released from the locked position when the certain amount of play is traversed by the force transmission member, the transmission member carries the engaging member along with it.

Abstract: In a window lifter, an electric motor drives a window lifting arm via a gear arrangement. The gear arrangement includes a pinion interconnected with a larger diameter gear with both rotatably mounted on a pin. The pin is secured at one end to a base plate and at its other end to a stirrup. The pinion bears against the base plate, the stirrup extends outwardly from diametrically opposite sides of the gear and is connected at its ends outwardly from the gear to the base plate.

Abstract: An operating mechanism for the window in a motorcar door and the like includes guiding devices, including at least one deflecting element, which engage a wire, cable or other elongated tension member and guide the tension member on the door in a loop-shaped path when the tension member is driven in the path alternatively in two opposite, longitudinal directions. The motion of the tension member is transmitted to the window. The tension member stretches under the longitudinal stresses exerted thereon by the drive and the window and needs to be tensioned. According to the invention, a spring in a permanently stressed condition biases the deflecting element in a direction to lengthen the path of the tension member and for thereby compensating for slack in the engaged portion of the tension member when the tension member moves in one longitudinal direction, whereby the spring reaches a partly relaxed condition.

Abstract: Adjusting mechanism for a seat, particularly a seat of an automotive vehicle, in which the seat rests on carriers elongated in the direction of shifting movement, seat shifting guides being interposed, and the carriers being equipped with integrally connected, upwardly directed lugs which laterally back the seat shifting guides.

Abstract: The window in the door of an automotive vehicle is raised and lowered by means of an externally threaded, longitudinally moving cable. The drive arrangement for the cable includes a shell having first and second shell portions of which at least one is formed with an aperture. A pinion is rotatably secured between the shell portions and journaled in the aperture of apertures. A first group of fastening devices fastens the first shell portion to the second shell portion in a predetermined position, but may also fasten the shell portions to one another in each of a plurality of other positions angularly offset about the axis of pinion rotation from the predetermined position. The shell portions define therebetween respective passages through the shell in the several positions of the first shell portion, the passages being approximately tangential relative to the pinion and angularly offset from each other about the axis of the pinion.

Abstract: In a window lifting mechanism for a motorcar window and the like in which a carrier for the window is moved along a guide by bowden cables led from the guide to a drive mechanism in partly arcuate paths, the end sections of the bowden cable casing are connected to the guide by connectors which are unitary pieces of sheet metal including an approximately planar main portion and guide and fastening elements stamped out of the main portion and angularly offset from the same for engagement with the associated casing section.

Abstract: A window is mounted on supporting structure of a motorcar body on a carrier for limited vertical movement. A motion-transmitting linkage connecting the carrier to a lifting drive includes a link which is movably secured to the carrier and the supporting structure. One of the securing devices for the link includes a forked guide channel having the shape of a tuning fork and bounding a keyhole-shaped guide slot. A guide pin has a shank slidably received in the slot and two enlarged heads outside the slot on respective ends of the shank. The width of the enlarged slot part is sufficient to pass one of the heads while the remainder of the slot is narrower than the corresponding dimensions of both heads for securing the pin against transverse movement out of the narrow slot part.