Ohi Seisakusho Co., Ltd.

Isamu Takarabe

Mikio Honma

Hatsuo Hayakawa

Tsutomu Aihara

Akihiro Takeda

Yutaka Miyame

Movable and stationary rails are of complementary cross sections, the movable rail being generally C-shaped with grooved side wall portions, the stationary rail having an elongate flat upper plate whose side edge portions constitute guide edge portions. The side edge portions of the stationary rail are spacedly received in the grooved side wall portions of the movable rail. Metal rollers are disposed between major flat portions of the movable and stationary rails. A plastic slider is secured to each of the guide edge portions and so shaped as to be neatly and slidably received in the corresponding grooved side wall portion of the movable rail. The plastic slider has an opening through which an outside edge wall of the guide edge portion is exposed. A metal ball is rotatably received in the opening in such a manner that diametrically opposed ends thereof are contactable with the outside edge wall and an inner surface of the corresponding grooved side wall.

Power seat slide device

Disclosed herein is an arrangement in a motor vehicle having a floor and a seat. The arrangement comprises a first structure which defines a groove by the vehicle floor; a seat sliding device which comprises two units each including a stationary rail, a movable rail slidably interlocked with the stationary rail and rollers and balls for smoothing the movement of the movable rail relative to the stationary rail, one unit of the seat sliding device being tightly received in the groove having a given part of the movable rail projected upward from the groove; a rug spread on the vehicle floor in a manner to cover the groove, the rub having an elongate slit through which the given part of the movable rail is projected upward; and a second structure for connecting the given part to the seat.

Arrangement for mounting seat sliding device on vehicle floor

Herein disclosed is a method of assembling a seat slide device which comprises a lower rail, an upper rail slidably disposed on the lower rail and rotating members disposed between the lower and upper rails. The method comprises by steps: (a) temporarily assembling the lower and upper rails; (b) disposing the rotating members between a space defined between the temporarily assembled lower and upper rails; (c) pressing the temporarily assembled lower and upper rails against each other with a given pressing force; (d) making a relative longitudinal movement between the temporarily assembled lower and upper rails with the pressing force kept applied thereto; and (e) removing the pressing force when the relative longitudinal movement counts a given number.

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Yokohama, Japan

Isamu Takarabe