Patents Assigned to TF-METAL Co., Ltd.
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Publication number: 20200238860Abstract: A sliding device includes a fixed rail, a movable rail, a lock plate, and a spring member. A seat body is fixed to the movable rail, and the movable rail is slidable relative to the fixed rail. The lock plate is held by the movable rail, and is displaceable between a locking position where the lock plate engages with the fixed rail and restricts slide of the movable rail and a non-locking position where the restriction is released. The spring member exerts an elastic force to maintain the lock plate in the locking position.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2020Publication date: July 30, 2020Applicants: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TACHI-S CO., LTD., TF-METAL CO., LTD.Inventor: Kosuke TANIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20200238859Abstract: A sliding device includes a fixed rail, a movable rail, a lock plate, a spring member, and a first stopper and a second stopper provided on the lock plate. The lock plate is held by the movable rail, and is displaceable between a locking position where the lock plate engages with the fixed rail and a non-locking position where the engagement is released. The spring member can exert an elastic force to maintain the lock plate in the locking position. The first stopper locks and fixes a first end of the lock plate to the spring member. The second stopper locks and fixes a second end of the lock plate to the spring member.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2020Publication date: July 30, 2020Applicants: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TACHI-S CO., LTD., TF-METAL CO., LTD.Inventor: Kosuke TANIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20200238861Abstract: A sliding device includes a fixed rail, a movable rail, a lock plate, a spring member, and a fixing structure. The lock plate is displaced between a locking position where the lock plate engages with the fixed rail and restricts slide of the movable rail and a non-locking position where the restriction of slide is released. The spring member exerts an elastic force to maintain the lock plate in the locking position. The fixing structure includes a tapered portion of the spring member and a press spring portion that presses the tapered portion toward a hole of the movable rail.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2020Publication date: July 30, 2020Applicants: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TACHI-S CO., LTD., TF-METAL CO., LTD.Inventor: Kosuke TANIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20200189424Abstract: A seat sliding device for vehicles includes lower and upper rails and a locking member for locking or unlocking the upper rail relative to the lower rail. The upper rail is equipped at a lower end of its downward side wall portion with a lower inward corner portion formed of a raised wall portion and a bottom wall portion. The locking member has an axial portion that is placed on and biased against the lower inward corner portion of the upper rail such that the locking member is swingable about an axis of the axial portion to lock or unlock the upper rail relative to the lower rail. This seat sliding device makes it possible to reduce the number of parts and improve operation stability of the locking member.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2019Publication date: June 18, 2020Applicants: TF-METAL Co., Ltd., TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TACHI-S CO., LTD.Inventors: Shunsuke KURODA, Kazuki TAMAKI
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Publication number: 20200171981Abstract: In an electric seat slide device of the present invention, a rear-side bracket 27 includes a first support member 41 fixed to a lower rail 2, a second support member 42 fixed to the lower rail 2 together with the first support member 41, a female screw member 43 as a first nut member through which a screw shaft 4 passes, and a second nut member 44 through which the screw shaft 4 passes. A pair of side wall portions 47 extending along a lower rail longitudinal direction and a vertical wall portion 62 of the second support member 42 which is formed orthogonal to the straight line along the lower rail longitudinal direction are sandwiched between the female screw member 43 and the second nut member 44.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2019Publication date: June 4, 2020Applicant: TF-METAL Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takashi IMAMURA
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Publication number: 20200130539Abstract: In the present invention, in a bottom portion 4a of a lower rail 4, a foreign matter interference portion 27 protruding upward and having a substantially arc-circular shape in a side view is formed by being cut and raised in a middle part in a rail width direction more on a front side than a bolt hole 26 for a mounting bolt for fixing the rear end portion of the lower rail 4 to a vehicle body. Rear-side stoppers 29 and long hole portions 31 shared with the rear-side stoppers 29 are formed on both sides of the foreign matter interference portion 27. The foreign matter interference portion 27 is separated into a front-side tongue piece 27a and a rear-side tongue piece 27b by a slit 32.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Applicants: TF-METAL Co., Ltd., TACHI-S CO., LTD.Inventors: Norifumi KOIZUMI, Hidekazu KUBOTA
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Publication number: 20200086777Abstract: A brake device for a motor vehicle seat includes a braking section for holding a pinion shaft in a braked and locked state. The braking section includes a housing including an inner periphery including a braking surface. First and second lock plates are arranged opposite to each other with respect to the pinion shaft in the housing. The pinion shaft includes a rectangular shaft part disposed between the first and second lock plates, wherein the rectangular shaft part includes an acting surface structured to be in contact with the first lock plate. The first lock plate is pressed on the braking surface of the housing by the acting surface. The acting surface includes a crest line corresponding in position to the center of the pinion shaft, and an inclined surface that descends from the crest line toward a radially outward end of the rectangular shaft part.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2019Publication date: March 19, 2020Applicant: TF-METAL Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takaya KANAZAWA
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Publication number: 20200086771Abstract: A brake device for a motor vehicle seat is composed of a brake assembly, a tooth assembly, and a lever assembly. The brake assembly includes a housing, a pinion shaft, a braking component, and a drive wheel that are structured to be self-held in an assembled state by mechanical interaction thereamong. The tooth assembly includes a holder plate and a tooth plate that are structured to be self-held in an assembled state by mechanical interaction therebetween. The lever assembly includes an input lever, a cover, a coil spring, and a lever bracket that are structured to be self-held in an assembled state by mechanical interaction thereamong. The brake assembly, the tooth assembly, and the lever assembly are arranged and assembled together in an axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2019Publication date: March 19, 2020Applicant: TF-METAL Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takaya KANAZAWA
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Patent number: 10569671Abstract: A brake device comprises a brake mechanism which comprises an output shaft having a drive gear secured thereto, a brake housing having a cylindrical braking surface therein and coaxially putting therein the output shaft, two pairs of clamp members movably and abreast installed in the brake housing in such a manner that paired two clamp members of each pair put therebetween an enlarged operation part of the output shaft and two springs that bias the two clamp member of each pair to pivot away from each other, in which each of the clamp members has an outer clamp surface that is slidably contactable with the cylindrical braking surface and includes larger and smaller clamp surface areas that are spaced from each other by a recess.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2017Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: TF-METAL CO., LTD.Inventor: Takaya Kanazawa
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Patent number: 10493870Abstract: A vehicle seat recliner for reclining a seat back with respect to a seat base, includes an internal gear member, an external gear member, a drive member, a lock member, a biasing member, and a cover. The drive member causes relative rotation between the internal gear member and the external gear member. The lock member and the biasing member operate for selectively locking and unlocking relative rotation between the internal gear member and the external gear member. The cover covers an outside of the external gear member. The outside of the external gear member includes fitting projections, wherein the fitting projections project toward the cover, and are arranged concentrically. Each of the fitting projections includes a radial inside fixed to the cover by press-fitting and recess-projection fitting, and includes a radial outside configured to be fitted to a mounting hole of the second frame.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2017Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: TF-METAL CO., LTD.Inventor: Kunihisa Oishi
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Publication number: 20190291602Abstract: A motor mounting structure for an electric seat sliding device includes: a motor; first and second elastic support members arranged to be mounted on the first and second protruding portions of the motor; a bracket arranged to support the both ends of the motor through the first and second elastic support members; and the second elastic support member being arranged to be moved between a position at which the second elastic support member is engaged with the second guide portion, and a position where the second elastic support member is disengaged from the second guide portion, and where the second elastic support portion is mounted on the second protruding portion of the motor positioned at the initial assembly position.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2019Publication date: September 26, 2019Applicant: TF-METAL Co., LtdInventor: Takashi IMAMURA
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Patent number: 10046672Abstract: A seat slide device for a vehicle includes a lower rail mounted on a vehicle floor, an upper rail mounted on an underside of a seat part, and a friction reducing member arranged between the lower rail and the upper rail. The friction reducing member includes sliding contact members. Each of the sliding contact members includes a lower column part, an upper column part, and connection parts which connect the upper column part with the lower column part.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: TF-METAL Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shunsuke Kuroda
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Publication number: 20180147957Abstract: A brake device comprises a brake mechanism which comprises an output shaft having a drive gear secured thereto, a brake housing having a cylindrical braking surface therein and coaxially putting therein the output shaft, two pairs of clamp members movably and abreast installed in the brake housing in such a manner that paired two clamp members of each pair put therebetween an enlarged operation part of the output shaft and two springs that bias the two clamp member of each pair to pivot away from each other, in which each of the clamp members has an outer clamp surface that is slidably contactable with the cylindrical braking surface and includes larger and smaller clamp surface areas that are spaced from each other by a recess.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2017Publication date: May 31, 2018Applicant: TF-METAL Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takaya KANAZAWA
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Publication number: 20180118057Abstract: A vehicle seat recliner for reclining a seat back with respect to a seat base, includes an internal gear member, an external gear member, a drive member, a lock member, a biasing member, and a cover. The drive member causes relative rotation between the internal gear member and the external gear member. The lock member and the biasing member operate for selectively locking and unlocking relative rotation between the internal gear member and the external gear member. The cover covers an outside of the external gear member. The outside of the external gear member includes fitting projections, wherein the fitting projections project toward the cover, and are arranged concentrically. Each of the fitting projections includes a radial inside fixed to the cover by press-fitting and recess-projection fitting, and includes a radial outside configured to be fitted to a mounting hole of the second frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2017Publication date: May 3, 2018Applicant: TF-METAL Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kunihisa OISHI