Abstract: The forwardly movable motor vehicle seat has a seat back (20) and a seat frame with a seat pan. The motor vehicle seat may be moved between a normal position of utilization and a forwardly moved position. An immobilizing device is associated with the seat frame. In particular, the seat back (20) has a seat back hinge (32) and a stopper device (40). The stopper device (40) retains the seat back (20) in the forward tilted position as long as the seat frame is located in a front portion of the travel path. The stopper device (40) enables said seat back to tilt upward into the normal position of utilization when the seat frame is located in a rear portion (74) of the travel path. The stopper device (40) has a first limit stop and a second limit stop, one limit stop being disposed on the seat frame and the other one on the seat back (20).

Abstract: The actuator for a motor vehicle has an electric motor driving an output shaft and a transmission comprising a worm, a spindle nut and a spindle. The worm is rotatably connected to the output shaft. The spindle nut comprises a worm gear that engages the worm and also a spindle thread that engages the spindle. The worm has a worm axis and the spindle nut has a spindle nut axis. The worm axis and the spindle nut axis draw an angle alpha of between about 85 ° and about 5° and, in one embodiment, between about 70° and about 40° .

Abstract: An adjustment device for a motor vehicle seat that includes an electric motor, a gear connected to the electric motor, a mechanical adjustment unit connected to the gear and a control circuit, at least one sensor being associated with the control circuit for detecting a critical situation of the motor vehicle and the control circuit providing an operating voltage for the electric motor, characterized in that the control circuit provides as an alternative, in addition to the normal operating voltage, an overvoltage for supplying the electric motor, that the normal operating voltage applies in a normal driving condition of the motor vehicle in which the sensor does not deliver any signal, that the overvoltage applies at the electric motor in a driving condition after the sensor has delivered a signal indicating that the driving condition is no longer normal and that the overvoltage is at least 150% of the value of the normal operating voltage, more specifically at least 200% of the value of the normal operating

Abstract: An actuating unit of a motor vehicle seat comprises an actuating element, a base part, a pivot axis, and a spring. The pivot axis is disposed between the base part and the actuating element and enables a pivoting movement of the actuating element relative to the base part. The spring is disposed between the actuating element and the base part and elastically biases the actuating element into a rest position relative to the base part.

Abstract: The seat depth adjustable vehicle seat has a seat frame that has an adjustable front edge and a padding carried by a seat frame. The padding extends about the front edge and adopts different positions with respect to the front edge. The padding has at least two layers. There is provided one inner and one outer layer. The inner layer is located between the front edge and the outer layer.

Abstract: The hinged mounting for a seat back hinge of a motor vehicle seat has a first hinge arm and a second hinge arm; it further has a circular blank that is interposed between said hinge arms. The circular blank has a first circular blank plate that is connected to the first hinge arm, a second circular blank plate that is associated with the second hinge arm, a retaining means for keeping the two circular blank plates together in the axial direction and a releasable stopper device. The second circular blank plate comprises at least one retaining side. The retaining means is rigidly connected to the second circular blank plate. Between the annular region and the second circular blank plate there is formed a circumferential groove in which the first circular blank plate is retained for rotation. The retaining means stiffens the second circular blank plate.

Abstract: An adjustable motor vehicle seat comprises an adjustment device. The adjustment device comprises a spindle drive equipped with a spindle, and having a first articulation area and a second articulation area. The adjustment device is adjustable in an adjustment direction. The spindle extends in an angle of one of alpha (?)>2° and alpha>10°, to the adjustment direction.

Abstract: The invention relates to a seat frame of a motor vehicle seat with a seat carrier having two side parts that are oriented transverse to a front axis and to a rear axis, a pivotal bridge being pivotal about at least one of said axes, said bridge comprising a tie bar and two side arms, and with an adjustment device having a motor-driven drive unit. The drive unit is arranged for pivotal movement about a hinge shaft that is substantially centered on that axis of the two axes about which said pivotal bridge is pivotal. Said hinge shaft is shorter than the distance between the two seat parts and is not in contact with said two seat parts, but if at all with only one side part. There is provided at least one inner arm that connects said tie bar to said hinge shaft and is located in proximity to said drive unit.

Abstract: An adjustment device for a motorized vehicle seat has an electric motor and a gear connected to the electric motor. The electric motor has a nominal speed of more than 12,000 rpm, in particular of more than 15,000 rpm at nominal voltage.

Abstract: In the integrated car seat with a lengthwise adjustment mechanism having two pairs of rails, with a bottom support frame having two front pivotal supports, two rear pivotal supports and two side parts carried on the pivotal supports, with a seat back connected to the side parts by a seat back joint and with a seat belt buckle, the side part is configured in the shape of a shell on the seat side that is turned away from the buckle, the side part having a bottom and a perimeter profile rim. The side part turned away from the buckle is open toward the outside, the outside preferably meaning the outboard side of the seat.

Abstract: The invention relates to a headrest of an automotive vehicle seat, said headrest comprising the following features: a carrier structure comprising at least one bar and being connected to a supporting member, said carrier structure being connected to said supporting member through at least one guide region and said supporting member being movable with respect to said carrier structure along a linear forward path of travel from a normal position of utilization into an accident position in which said supporting member is located both in the x direction and in the z direction in front of the position of utilization, a drive unit being provided, said drive unit comprising a tension spring and a blocking device, said blocking device comprising a first blocking part and a disengagement device, said first blocking part comprising an oblong opening through which engages a driver member of said carrier structure, in the position of utilization the tensile force of said tension spring abutting on said first blocking par

Abstract: The invention relates to a backrest unit for a motor vehicle seat, in particular a rear seat comprising a backrest and support connected thereto. A guide rail is arranges on the rear surface of the backrest on an x-z plane. A slide is movably mounted on the guide rail and is lockable therein in different positions. When a control device associated with the slide is actuated, it brings the slide from a normally locking position into a released position. A support comprises a near end which is hinged on the slide and a distant end which is fixable to a bodywork part.

Abstract: The invention relates to a longitudinal guide for an automotive vehicle seat with a surrounding rail (20), a surrounded rail (50), a free longitudinal channel (72) being formed between said rails and a first lateral encompassing area (68) and a second lateral encompassing area (70) located diagonally opposite said first lateral encompassing area being provided, with said surrounding rail (20) forming an outer grip around said surrounded rail (50) and the roll bodies (73-75) being disposed in a respective one of said areas, with guide channels for the roll bodies (73-75) being formed between the rails in the encompassing areas (68, 70). One guide channel (76) only is formed in the first encompassing area (68) while two guide channels (77, 78) are formed in the second encompassing area (70).

Abstract: The seat depth adjustable vehicle seat has a seat frame that has an adjustable front edge and a padding carried by a seat frame. The padding extends about the front edge and adopts different positions with respect to the front edge. The padding has at least two layers. There is provided one inner and one outer layer. The inner layer is located between the front edge and the outer layer.

Abstract: A motor vehicle seat with an underframe comprising two pairs of rails, each having a seat rail and a floor rail, a seat belt and a seat belt retractor. The seat further comprises a tie bar for the seat belt retractor, the tie bar extending from the one seat rail to the other seat rail and is connected to the respective one of the seat rails. The seat belt retractor is connected to the tie bar and, in one embodiment, is disposed beneath the tie bar.

Abstract: The hinge mounting for an adjustable vehicle seat has a first ring gear, a second ring gear, said two ring gears being rotatable relative to each other about an axis and being centered on said axis, and a driver unit which comprises a) a shaft for initiating an adjusting movement, said shaft being centered on said axis, b) a central, circular recess that is offset a distance e) with respect to the axis, c) a driver member that is located in the recess, fits against said recess and is rotationally joined to the shaft and d) a compensation unit comprising a wedge-shaped piece connected to the shaft, a mating surface cooperating with the wedge-shaped piece and formed on the driver member and an elastic means that biases the driver member in such a manner that the driver member is urged toward the topmost point of the wedge-shaped piece, characterized in that the driver member has a radial cut-out having a basis formed by the mating surface.

Abstract: A longitudinal guide for motor vehicle seats having a bottom rail and a seat rail that are displaceable with respect to each other in one longitudinal direction. The motor vehicle seats are adjustable in a longitudinal direction and are also removable from the longitudinal guide. Detents are formed in the bottom rail. The seat rail comprises a base part and a supporting part. The base part has at least one front and at least one rear transverse bolt, which cooperate with the detents. The base part is adjustable with respect to the supporting part between a lower position, in which the transverse bolts are not engaged with the detents, and an upper position, in which the transverse bolts engage detents. Only in the lower position is the seat rail displaceable with respect to the bottom rail.

Abstract: An electrically height-adjustable head rest device of a motor vehicle seat having a head rest, one or two bars carrying the head rest, a cross member, which is connected to at least one bar and comprises an internal thread, and a motor-spindle unit comprising a spindle engaging the internal thread. On the cross member and/or on the motor-spindle unit there is provided a guide seat for a guide part.

Abstract: A hinge mounting for an adjustment device of a motor vehicle seat having a first external gear wheel comprising a first inner toothed surface and a second external gear wheel comprising a second inner toothed surface. At least two planet wheels mesh with both the first and second inner toothed surfaces. A driving toothed sun wheel meshes with the at least two planet wheels. At least one of the planet wheels has a ring-shaped spring forming the toothed surface of the plane wheel that is radially elastically deformable and permanently exert a force onto the sun wheel, the first inner toothed surface and the second inner toothed surface; and/or the sun wheel comprises a ring-shaped spring forming at least a portion of the toothed surface of the sun wheel and configured to be radially elastically deformable and permanently exert a force onto the planet wheels and bias these with force into abutment with the first and second inner toothed surfaces.

Abstract: A seat adjuster device for setting a first part of a motor vehicle seat relative to a second part comprising a curved piece connected to the first part and having a center and a regular front face; and a support piece connected to the second part and mounted to rotate about the center, and having a first and second clamping bevel. A first clamping body is arranged between the first clamping bevel and the front face; a second clamping body is arranged between the second clamping bevel and the front face. Two elastic means are arranged between the first clamping body and the support and the second clamping body and the support piece, respectively. The first and second clamping bodies are tensioned in first and a second rotational directions, respectively, to enable them to be pressed into their corresponding clamping gap in a clamped position.