Abstract: A seat device for a vehicle adapted to adjust a positional height of a seat cushion includes rails, frames supporting the seat cushion, link members, a torque rod connecting link members, a sector gear formed so as to operate together with one of the link members and rotatably supported by one of the frames, an elongated hole formed on the sector gear, a pinion gear meshing with the sector gear, a pressing bracket supported by the pinion gear, a stopper pin inserted into the elongated hole of the sector gear and connected to the one of the frames at a first end of the stopper pin and to the pressing bracket at a second end of the stopper pin.

Abstract: A seat slide apparatus for a vehicle includes a lower rail, an upper rail, and a lock mechanism. The lock mechanism includes a lock portion provided at the lower rail, a lock member which is engageable with and disengageable from the lock portion and a first biasing member for biasing the lock member in a direction to be engaged with the lock portion. The seat slide apparatus for a vehicle further includes a releasing lever for releasing the lock member from being engaged with the lock portion and a second biasing member for maintaining the releasing lever at a neutral position. According to the seat slide apparatus for the vehicle, the first biasing member and the second biasing member are integrally formed.

Abstract: A seat slide apparatus for a vehicle includes a lower rail, an upper rail, a lock mechanism releaseably locking the upper rail relative to the lower rail, and a belt anchor bracket fixedly provided to the upper rail and attached with a belt anchor. The belt anchor bracket includes a rail fixing portion having a plane surface being parallel to the upper surface of the upper rail and attached to the upper surface of the upper rail, a load distribution portion downwardly extending from the rail fixing portion and being adjacent to an upper surface of the lower rail, and an anchor fixing portion upwardly extending from the rail fixing portion for anchoring the belt anchor.

Abstract: A seat sliding apparatus for a vehicle includes a lower rail including a base bottom portion, first inner and outer side portions, upper portions, and second inner and outer side portions, an upper rail movably supported relative to the lower rail and including a base top portion, first inner and outer extending portions, connecting portions, and second inner and outer extending portions, a lock mechanism including a lock portion provided at the first inner side portion, a bracket, and a lock member engageable with and disengageable from the lock portion, a cutout portion formed across the base top portion and the first inner extending portion and into which the lock member is inserted, and through-holes provided at the second inner extending portion and the bracket, respectively, the through-holes into which the lock member is inserted while the lock member is engaging with the lock portion.

Abstract: A seat reclining apparatus includes: a base plate fixed to a seat bottom or a seatback and including a plurality of guiding portions extending in a radial direction of the base plate; a gear plate fixed to the seat bottom or the seatback, the gear plate rotatably assembled at the base plate and formed with internal teeth; a lock gear assembled at the base plate and guided by the guiding portions of the base plate to be movable in the radial direction, the lock gear being formed with external teeth engageable with the internal teeth of the gear plate. At least one external tooth, which is positioned at a front end or a rear end from a rearward tilting direction of the seatback, has a radius of a pitch circle being smaller than a radius of a pitch circle of the internal teeth of the gear plate.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus of an example of the invention includes first connecting means for receiving image data, second connecting means for receiving control information for subjecting the image data to output control, the control information corresponding to the image data, third connecting means for communicating first print job information of the image data, and a display unit that displays the first print job information received by the third connecting means.

Abstract: A walk-in device for a vehicle seat in which the vehicle seat provided with a lifting mechanism is moved forward in conjunction with the forward folding of a seatback.

Abstract: A seat sliding device for a vehicle for unlocking or retaining an unlocked state of a movable rail that supports a seat relative to a fixed rail by interlocking with a turning of a seat back in a forward direction or an operation of an operation handle, includes a link mechanism provided at one of a pair of rails which are arranged in parallel with each other by keeping a predetermined distance therebetween and a lock mechanism provided at the other one of the pair of rails. After the seat is moved in the forward direction with the seat back being turned forward, the link mechanism makes the lock mechanism inoperative so that the seat can be moved in a rearward direction regardless of a state of the seat back being positioned in the forward.

Abstract: A vehicle seat apparatus includes a pair of vehicle-width spaced lower arms attached to a seat cushion, each of the lower arms having a rear portion; a connecting member fixed to the rear portion of each of the lower arms; a pair of vehicle-width spaced upper arms attached to a seat back, each of the upper arms being pivoted by a rotational shaft to the rear portion of the corresponding lower arm to rotate relative thereto; a reclining apparatus provided at one of the connecting member and serving for restricting and allowing the upper arms to rotate; and a load receiving portion provided at one of the lower arms for receiving a downward load, when the downward load is transmitted from the connecting member to the rear portion of one of the lower arms, by being brought into engagement with at least one of the upper arm, the reclining apparatus, and the connecting member.

Abstract: A seat sliding apparatus for a vehicle includes a lower rail fixed to a vehicle floor, an upper rail fixed to a vehicle seat, rolling engagement members disposed between the lower rail and the upper rail for making the upper rail to be movable relative to the lower rail in a longitudinal direction thereof, and two retainers arranged between the lower rail and the upper rail along a longitudinal direction thereof and each including a notch. The rolling engagement members are rotatably held at a front end portion and a rear end portion of the retainer. In addition, the lower rail includes a first engagement projection engaging with front end and rear end surfaces of the notch in response to a sliding movement of the upper rail relative to the lower rail.

Abstract: A seat apparatus for a vehicle includes a lower rail fixed to a vehicle floor, an upper rail slidably supported relative to the lower rail and having a U-shaped cross section opened downward, a supporting member integrally formed with a bottom wall portion connected, at both longitudinal ends thereof, to an upper portion of the upper rail and a side wall portion extending upward from at least one width directional end of the bottom wall portion and supporting a vehicle seat, and a curved portion formed at an intermediate portion in the longitudinal direction of the bottom wall portion of the supporting member and curved upward to be distant from the upper rail.

Abstract: A vehicle seat reclining device includes a lock mechanism at each side of the vehicle seat for restricting or allowing a rotational movement of a seat back relative to a seat cushion. The lock mechanism includes a cam mechanism rotating around a rotational axis of the seat back relative to the seat cushion for restricting or allowing the relative rotation between the seat back and the seat cushion. The cam mechanism includes an engagement hole and a first shaft provided at the lock mechanism having an engagement portion engaging with the engagement hole with a clearance The other side lock mechanism includes a second shaft and a connecting portion for connecting the second shaft with the first shaft, wherein the second shaft is connected with the first shaft in such a manner that a rotation position of the second shaft is adjusted to agree with a rotation allowing timing of the relative rotation between the seat back and the seat cushion by the lock mechanisms.

Abstract: A seat sliding device for a vehicle for unlocking or retaining an unlocked state of a movable rail that supports a seat relative to a fixed rail by interlocking with a turning of a seat back in a forward direction or an operation of an operation handle, includes a link mechanism provided at one of a pair of rails which are arranged in parallel with each other by keeping a predetermined distance therebetween and a lock mechanism provided at the other one of the pair of rails. After the seat is moved in the forward direction with the seat back being turned forward, the link mechanism makes the lock mechanism inoperative so that the seat can be moved in a rearward direction regardless of a state of the seat back being positioned in the forward.

Abstract: A seat adjusting apparatus includes: a first clutch mechanism; a second clutch mechanism; and a return member having a contact portion and a second engagement portion. The contact portion is configured to come in contact with a roller and is positioned in a wedge-shaped space. The contact portion is located at the side of an area, where a distance between a cam surface of an input side member of a first clutch mechanism and an inner peripheral surface of a control member is reduced. The second engagement portion is engaged in a circumferential direction with a first engagement portion provided at the input side member so that the return member rotates integrally with the input side member.

Abstract: The seat adjusting apparatus includes: an input side member connected to the operating lever and rotatably supported by the output shaft; a control member arranged at a radially outer side of the input side member; a first clutch mechanism transmitting operation force of the operating member from the input side member to the control member when the operating lever is driven to operate and discontinuing force transmission between the input side member and the control member when the operating member returns to an original position; and a second clutch mechanism transmitting the operation force of the operating member from the control member to the output shaft when the operating member is driven to operate and restraining the output shaft from rotating when the operating member is not driven to operate.

Abstract: A seat reclining apparatus for a vehicle includes a first plate held at one of a seat cushion frame and a seatback frame, a second plate held at the other one of the seat cushion frame and the seatback frame, a pole having an external tooth facing the internal tooth, a first protrusion provided at the pole, a restricting portion provided at the second plate so as to face the first, the restricting portion coming in contact with the first protrusion so that the internal tooth and the external tooth are prohibited from being engaged, a second protrusion provided at the pole, and a stopper portion provided at the second plate for keeping a rotational angle of the second plate relative to the first plate at a predetermined angle upon a contact with the second protrusion.

Abstract: A vehicle walk-in device includes a fixed rail, a first lock member, a second lock member, a main mechanism, a sub mechanism, and a transmitting mechanism, the main mechanism having a first drive member, a first release link, and a link connecting shaft, the sub mechanism including a second release link actuated in conjunction with the first release link by means of the transmitting mechanism so that the second lock member is pressed so as to be unlocked and the transmitting mechanism made of a flexible cord-shaped member.

Abstract: A clutch device for a seat lifting apparatus of a vehicle includes a friction brake portion for transmitting rotation of an operational lever to an output shaft, an output gear provided at the output shaft, a biasing force receiving portion provided at the output shaft for receiving a biasing force which assists a rotation of the output shaft, a first bearing portion provided at one side of the biasing force receiving portion and the output gear and a second bearing portion provided at the other side of the biasing force receiving portion and the output gear. The first bearing portion and the second bearing portion rotatably support the output shaft at both sides of the biasing force receiving portion and the output gear.

Abstract: A seat reclining apparatus includes: a base plate fixed to a seat bottom or a seatback and including a plurality of guiding portions extending in a radial direction of the base plate; a gear plate fixed to the seat bottom or the seatback, the gear plate rotatably assembled at the base plate and formed with internal teeth; a lock gear assembled at the base plate and guided by the guiding portions of the base plate to be movable in the radial direction, the lock gear being formed with external teeth engageable with the internal teeth of the gear plate. At least one external tooth, which is positioned at a front end or a rear end from a rearward tilting direction of the seatback, has a radius of a pitch circle being smaller than a radius of a pitch circle of the internal teeth of the gear plate.

Abstract: A reclining apparatus for a vehicle seat includes a lower plate, an upper plate rotatably supported by each lower plate, a cam for restricting or permitting rotation of each upper plate relative to each lower plate, a connecting shaft fitted to each cam with a fit clearance for integrally rotating each cam and a spring wound around a rotational axis of each cam for biasing each cam in a rotational direction in which rotation of each upper plate relative to each lower plate is restricted. A first end of each spring is engaged with each lower plate and a second end of each spring is engaged with each cam. The spring includes a pressing portion for pressing the connecting shaft so that a play corresponding to the fit clearance between each cam and the connecting shaft can be eliminated.