Brose Fahrzeugteile Gmbh & Co Kommanditgesellschaft, Coburg

David Becker

Leo Ioppolo

Sean Sabo

A longitudinally adjustable vehicle seat comprises a seat frame, a backrest pivotally mounted on the seat frame and foldable down in the direction of a seat surface of the seat frame, a longitudinal rail guide having a guide rail pairincluding a lower guide railand an upper guide rail, a seat adjuster mechanism including a releasable locking devicefor locking and unlocking the position of the upper guide railrelative to the lower guide railin a design position P between an internal full rear limit stop and a comfort full forward limit stopdefining a functional comfort adjustment range D, an easy-entry mechanism for displacing the vehicle seat to an extended travel full forward position C upon folding down the backrest onto the seat surface, and a pivotable over-travel and limit stop bracketwhich is adapted to rotate to bypass the comfort full forward limit stopupon activation of the easy-entry mechanism for entering an extended travel range.

Vehicle seat

A drive shaft assembly, e.g. as part of a rail adjustment system for a vehicle seat, with a flexible drive shaft for transferring an adjustment force, is provided wherein the drive shaft has central part extending between the two shaft ends of the drive shaft, and the drive shaft is located with its central part at least partially in an elongate guide of the drive shaft assembly. At the central part of the drive shaft several sections arranged in the guide are provided with directly applied flock fibers, in a flocking process on a lateral surface of the drive shaft, which are spaced from each other along a shaft axis of the drive shaft and at which an outer diameter of the drive shaft is enlarged locally with regard to sections abutting these.

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