Abstract: A vehicle seat apparatus includes a first latch mechanism supported at a front portion of a seat cushion frame supporting a vehicle seat, a second latch mechanism supported at a rear portion of the seat cushion frame, a first striker mechanism provided on a vehicle floor and being engagable and disengagable relative to the first latch mechanism, a second striker mechanism provided on the vehicle floor and being engagable and disengagable relative to the second latch mechanism, an upper bracket provided at the first latch mechanism and fixed to the seat cushion frame, and a lower bracket provided at the first latch mechanism and rotatably supported at the upper bracket by a rotating shaft. The upper bracket includes a supporting portion, and the lower bracket moves to be disengaged from the first striker mechanism due to a contact of the supporting portion to the vehicle floor side while the vehicle seat being tumbled is reclined in the rear direction of the vehicle.

Abstract: A mounting device for an infant's safety chair has at least two holding frames and a bracket. Each holding frame has an attaching base secured under the infant's safety chair and a U-shaped tube slidably and rotatably mounted on the attaching base. The U-shaped tube is composed of multiple sections adjustably connected with each other. The bracket is a U-shaped strip secured under the infant's safety chair to hold the U-shaped tube when the holding frame is pressed down parallel with a bottom face of the infant's safety chair. By adjusting the sections, the U-shaped tube can be clamped to an original adult's seat even in different vehicles to provide an excellent positioning efficiency to the infant's safety chair.

Abstract: The present invention is a sinking seat for a vehicle assembled with a rear leg and a grooved leg integrally coupled to enable convenient handling due to the unification of parts. The mounting of the sinking seat onto a vehicle body is simplified by a folded lower part being unfolded to allow a lower part rotating axle to be rotatably coupled to the vehicle body. The assembly process is made simpler, and noise generated from the coupling portion between the vehicle body and the sinking seat is minimized.

Abstract: A seat mounting device for a vehicle seat may include at least two locking mechanisms (20) provided on one of a vehicle seat (40) and a vehicle body, and an engagement member (43) provided on the other of the vehicle seat and the vehicle body. The locking mechanisms (20) are interconnected via an interconnecting member (26, 28). The engagement member (43) is arranged and constructed to be locked by the locking mechanisms (20). The locking mechanisms (20) and the engagement member (43) are arranged and constructed such that the engagement member (43) can be engaged with or removed from the locking mechanisms (20) by moving the vehicle seat (40) in one direction.

Abstract: A track fastener assembly for securing a seat or cargo apparatus to a floor track of a vehicle. The assembly includes a base with a longitudinal slot formed therein, and a ramp disposed in its upper surface near the forward end of the slot. A movable slide carrying locking studs runs in the longitudinal slot. A locking rod having a helical groove formed in its outer surface is operatively connected to the base and the slide. Rotation of the locking rod causes the slide to move axially along the longitudinal slot from an installation position near the aft end of the base to a locking position near the forward end of the base. As the slide moves to the locking position, the slide engages the ramp in the base, thereby deflecting the slide with the attached locking studs upwards and clamping the track fastener assembly to the track.

Abstract: A seat device adapted to be fixed to engagement members on a vehicle floor includes a first engagement member supporting a front portion of the seat device, a second engagement member supporting a rear portion of the seat, a first lock engagable with the first engagement member, a second lock engagable with the second engagement member. The first lock is supported on the seat device and includes a bracket rotatably supported relative to the seat device and being engagable with the first engagement member and a hook member supported on the bracket and being able to maintain an engagement of the bracket with the first engagement member. A contact portion is provided on the hook member for contacting on a portion of the seat device to prevent a release operation of the hook member when the bracket is out of a predetermined position range relative to the seat device.

Abstract: A rail assembly has an elongated upwardly open and elongated metal rail fixed to a car-body support and two confronting and inwardly concave flanges forming transversely inwardly directed faces and an elongated metal rail fixed to a motor-vehicle seat, captured between the flanges, and having two transversely outwardly directed faces generally complementary to and bearing with prestress outwardly on the inwardly directed faces. Respective friction-reducing layers on the faces allow the seat rail to slide smoothly in the body rail.

Abstract: A vehicle seat latch assembly including a structural latch member having a first engagement surface that is adapted to secondarily engage a striker. A deformable latch member is attached to the structural latch member and has a second engagement surface that extends beyond the first engagement surface for primary engagement with the striker. The second engagement surface has a greater offset angle derived from a pivot point than the offset angle of the first engagement surface derived from the pivot point.

Abstract: The present invention provides a bracket construction for a seat striker, which can firmly hold the seat striker at a position separated from the vehicle body side. A latch 18 having a pin 18a is provided in a folding type squab 10, and a slot 10b is formed in a back face 10a thereof. A bracket 1 is installed to a side panel 13 by bolting. The bracket 1 has a bracket body 2 and a seat striker 3 that is installed to the bracket body 2 so as to be capable of being engaged with the latch 18. The bracket body 2 has a shape such as to project toward the vehicle inside from an outside end 10c of the squab 10 and be long in the vehicle longitudinal direction. The bracket body 2 consists of an upper bracket 2a and a lower bracket 2b. The bracket body 2 has a seat belt guide portion 5, and further has an installation portion for a trim 4 which covers the bracket body 2.

Abstract: A locking mechanism for a foldable seat frame pivotable about a forward pivot axis attached to a chassis is provided. The rear area of the seat frame may be secured in a locked position by means of a stop bolt that passes through an opening attached to the chassis and by means of spreader devices that may move radially inward and outward and that engage behind the edge of the opening. A displacement body for the spreader bodies may be displaced by means of an actuation lever pivotable on the rear area of the seat frame in such a manner that the spreader bodies may be so radially displaced inwards that they lie within the outer shape of the stop bolt in an unlocked condition. The actuation lever is mounted so that it may be displaced longitudinally against the force of the securing spring, and so that a pivoting motion to release the stop bolt is only possible upon longitudinal displacement against the direction of vehicle travel overcoming the force of the spring.

Abstract: A detachable seat for a vehicle includes a seat bracket at the bottom thereof, which is detachably coupled with guide grooves and front and rear strikers formed in a floor panel of the vehicle. The bracket comprises a body unit including a bracket body with front engaging grooves and rear engaging grooves for floor mounted strikers; locking units for releasing the rear striker from the rear engaging grooves in response to control of a release lever; and rollers located to facilitate mounting and demounting.

Abstract: A removable motor vehicle seat includes a locking mechanism, an operating element for triggering the locking mechanism and at least one electric and/or pneumatic interface which has a detachable connector element. A contact mechanism is provided for connecting and/or disconnecting the connector element which is forcibly coupled to the locking mechanism so that removal or installation of the vehicle seat takes place in at least two chronologically successive phases wherein in one phase exclusively a connection/disconnection of the connector element takes place and in the other phase exclusively a locking/unlocking of the vehicle seat takes place. The removable vehicle seat ensures an automatic functionally reliable connection and disconnection of the electric and/or pneumatic components of a vehicle seat during the installation and dismantling of the seat.

Abstract: An inertia locking system for a vehicle seat is disclosed. The seat has a C-shaped leg portion. The inertia locking system includes a pedestal mounted on the vehicle floor. The pedestal has an oblique, upwardly facing U-shaped receiving port for receiving the leg portion. A U-shaped clip having a second opening is provided for also receiving the leg portion. The second opening faces obliquely upward and has a width slightly narrower than the diameter of the lower section of the leg portion. A latch having an inverted J-shape has a lower base portion, a curved upper portion, and a jaw portion. The latch is pivotally supported at the lower base portion to a side portion of the pedestal and spring biased away from the receiving port. The curved upper portion faces the receiving port and the jaw portion protrudes beyond an inner surface of the receiving port.

Abstract: A vehicle seat assembly includes a seat frame for supporting a cushion of a seat. A bracket is attached to the seat frame. The bracket includes mounting locations for fastening the bracket to a floor portion of a vehicle. At least one pair of anchor wires are attached to the bracket. Each of the anchor wires includes first and second legs which are attached to the bracket, and a latch receiving portion interconnecting the first and second legs. The latch receiving portion is adapted to be releasably engageable with a corresponding latch mechanism on a child safety seat.

Abstract: An article holding device is formed of an outer casing to be attached to a mounting hole of a member to be attached and having a first engaging portion at an inner wall surface, and a core including a main body to be inserted into the outer casing and a second engaging portion provided on an outer wall surface of the main body and engaging the first engaging portion in an assembled condition that the main body is inserted to a predetermined position of the outer casing. A protruding portion is formed at a side wall of the main body to engage the hook inserted into the core. The hook is located in the core and is pushed, so that the hook presses a bottom wall of the core, and the core is inserted into the outer casing and assembled therewith. In this assembled condition, outer wall surfaces of the elastic engaging portions abut against a narrow width portion of the outer casing to thereby strongly hold the hook.

Abstract: An improved automotive vehicle seating assembly. A seat including a back and a base having a pair of first attachment legs and a pair of second attachment legs is employed. A floor pan has slots for receiving the first attachment legs. Strikers are provided in the floor pan for latchingly receiving the second attachment legs. The first attachment legs include a projection for insertion through the cross member slots and deforming engagement with an underside of the floor pan.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for monitoring the locking position of a connecting device 5, especially the locking position of a device for fixing a child seat in a motor vehicle, with a base body 11, which can be connected with a support component 7 capable of being locked with a locking component 3, a slider 13 arranged in the base body 11, which when the base body is joined with the support component 7, can be impinged at time of transfer of locking component 3 to the locking position by the locking component and displaced from an initial position into an end position corresponding to the locking position, and with a detection device 15 provided in or at the base body 11 for detection of the correct locking position of the locking component 3 and the support component 7 by detection of the position of the slider 13, whereby the detection device 15 registers, in addition to the locking position, at least one additional position of the slider 13, at a distance from the locking position.

Abstract: A latch assembly adapted for use in a vehicle having a movable member, a fixed member, and a striker fixed to one of the movable and fixed members. The latch assembly is adapted to be connectable to the other of the movable and fixed members and to selectively couple the movable member to the striker. More particularly, the latch assembly of the present invention includes a housing, a latch and a release cam coupled to the housing, spring means, and a release mechanism. The housing includes a striker opening adapted to accommodate the striker. The latch is operable in a latched position when the latch assembly is in a latched mode wherein the latch is adapted to couple the striker to the housing and in an unlatched position when the latch assembly is in an unlatched mode wherein the striker is freely movable relative to the housing.

Abstract: A seating system for a vehicle having a vehicle floor. The seating system includes a mounting member and a frame assembly. The mounting member is configured to be fixedly coupled to the vehicle floor. The frame assembly has a mounting structure with a mounting leg, an isolator and a compression lever. The mounting leg has a slotted aperture into which a portion of the mounting member is disposed. The isolator is coupled to one of the mounting leg and the compression lever. The compression lever is pivotably mounted to the mounting structure such that rotation of the compression lever in a first rotational direction positions the isolator in an engaged condition wherein at least a portion of the isolator is compressed against the mounting member. Rotation of the compression lever in a second rotational direction positions the isolator in a disengaged condition wherein the isolator is disengaged from the mounting member.

Abstract: A device for detachably mounting an automotive seat to a vehicle floor includes a seat based mounting means configured to cooperate with a floor based retaining piece of the vehicle. The mounting means includes two hinge-connected retaining limbs configured to grasp the floor-based retaining piece in such a manner that, in a first configuration wherein the retaining limbs have been brought together, the mounting means is locked to the floor-based retaining piece. In a second configuration wherein the two retaining limbs are spread apart, the mounting means is separated from the retaining piece. A sleeve-shaped device is configured to slide relative to the retaining limbs wherein in the second configuration of the retaining limbs the retaining limbs are spread apart and wherein the retaining limbs are brought together and held together in their first configuration by sliding the actuating device over the retaining limbs.

Abstract: A vehicle seat assembly comprising a seat back and a seat bench that pivot relative to each other so that the seat back may be positioned generally upright to provide an upright seating position or positioned generally folded onto the seat bench to provide a cargo position. The seat assembly is mounted to the floor of the vehicle using front and rear latches which engage respective front and rear anchors. From the upright position, the seat assembly may be rotated forward to provide access to and egress from the area behind the seat. From the folded position, the seat assembly may be pivoted forward to provide additional cargo space. The seat assembly is configured to facilitate installing and removing the seat assembly by preventing the latches from contacting the anchors until such contact is desired. The seat assembly is also configured to facilitate moving the seat while in a vehicle and while removed from the vehicle. A cupholder is included in a cover for the seat assembly.

Abstract: A vehicle seat the feet of which are assembled in a removable manner on two fixed sections by means of vertical jaws which ensure the coupling of the seat onto the fixed sections.

Abstract: It relates to a vehicle seat comprising a seat part which is mounted on the vehicle floor by means of a front connection including a catch. This catch is provided with a notch intended to engage with a first horizontal transverse spindle integral with the floor in order to pivot the seat rearwards around said first spindle and to bring it into a use position where the seat part extends substantially horizontally. A finger projects frontwards and comprises an upper face turned in the opposite direction to the opening of the notch and intended to abut against stop means in said use position, these stop means being integral with the floor.

Abstract: A fitting for anchoring an aircraft seat to a track mounted to the floor of the aircraft is provided. The fitting is removably mounted to the seat and includes a generally rectangular elongate base having flange-like extensions running longitudinally thereof. The base has symmetric slide bearings affixed thereto, one at each end thereof, and overlaying the base, dimensioned so that the base with attached bearings is slidably insertable into the slot of the track. When the seat is mounted to the track, the symmetric bearings are in contact with the upper inside surfaces of the slot within the track, providing relative ease of slidable movement thereof when required.

Abstract: A quick release mechanism for a conveyance seat comprising: a base plate rigidly attachable to a floor portion of a conveyance connected to a riser member by way of a cammed locking means. Wherein, the cammed locking means has a “T” lock that may be positioned so as to secure the riser member, and a locking cam which further secures the riser member by reducing the amount of sideways movement between the riser member and the base plate, and a compression cam which when rotated in a locked position pulls the “T” lock in an upward direction, and a spring which applies a force in a downward direction when the compression cams are in a lock position. The seat mechanism is further secured by a plurality of hub-like projections which may be received by a plurality of detents included in the base plate.

Abstract: A seat track attachment assembly for attachment to an aperture in a vehicle floor pan includes a seat track having an opening therein. An attachment bolt extends through the floor pan aperture and the seat track opening. The bolt has a shaft and a head with a head width narrower than the opening. A fixation spring is positioned around the shaft and abuts the head to secure the seat track to the floor pan.

Abstract: The device for the detachable connection of a vehicle seat with the vehicle floor with a rear fixing hook open in the travel direction and in which a fixing bolt on the vehicle floor can engage, and a front slide guide for supporting the vehicle seat on the front fixing bolt as well as a rotatably mounted claw-like locking lever biased by a spring force to lock the front fixing bolt in the slide guide wherein the rear fixing bolt is associated with a swivel mounted claw-like primary locking element biased by a spring force against the locking position, wherein the position of the primary locking element on reaching the locking position can likewise be locked by a secondary locking element, is characterized in that the front primary locking element and the rear secondary locking element are coupled together by a coupling element, preferably a coupling rod.

Abstract: The invention is a locking device for fastening a vehicle seat to a floor of the vehicle. The device allows both fastening and unfastening via structure that compensates for tolerances and helps ensure a rattle-free connection.

Abstract: A seat lock device allows a seat to be unlocked and removed with one hand by rotating a lever member with one's fingertips and lifting an end portion of the seat. An engaging rod is mounted on either a bottom plate of a seat or a seat mounting bed. A support block, which has a locking rod, is mounted on the other of the seat bottom plate and the seat mounting bed. A lever member that engages with a bridge portion of the locking rod is pivotally mounted relative to the support block. Upon rotating the lever member with one's fingertips, both end portions of the locking rod are retracted against a biasing force of a spring from a receiving groove formed in the support block. Then, the engaging rod can be removed from the receiving groove to unlock the seat.

Abstract: A lever action floor latch actuation mechanism for removably securing a seat to a pair of front and rear strikers on the floor of a vehicle. A riser having a forward leg and a rearward leg supports the seat above the vehicle floor. Front and rear latches are pivotally connected to the forward and rearward legs, respectively, for releasably securing the seat to the strikers. A longitudinal links pivotally interconnects the front and rear latches and an actuation member coupled to the link simultaneously moves the latches between a latched position engaging the strikers and an unlatched position disengaging the strikers. Each latch includes a cinch cam pivotally connecting the latch to the riser. The cinch cam has a cylindrical outer surface terminating at a flattened cam surface. A spacer plate is fixedly secured between the latch and the riser and includes a center aperture for rotatably receiving the cinch cam. The aperture forms a circular section and a tangential slot for seating a flexible plate.

Abstract: A seat belt tensioner has two traction strands which transmit a tensioner drive movement to a seat belt. A block-shaped deflection device, which is anchored on the vehicle body has a guide channel. The block-shaped deflection device is fixed in an interlocking manner in a fastening sleeve anchored to the vehicle body.