Mitsui Kinzoku Act Corporation

Ohi Seisakusho Co., Ltd.

Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Tachi-S Co., Ltd.

Kiyohiko Kamata

Mikio Honma

Naoki Hanaki

Naoya Seto

Hatsuo Hayakawa

Shinichiro Kita

Hidemasa Hirakui

Noboru Takamura

Akira Ogiso

Hiroyuki Nozaki

Toku Fukaya

Yoshiharu Settsu

Toshihisa Nishijyo

Ken Kuroiwa

Hatuo Hayakawa

Sanji Majima

Kiyotaka Sakai

A cheek link apparatus includes an arm in which a stopper portion is formed by covering a stopper core portion with a resin material and a holding member which defines a full open position of a door by being brought into abutment with the stopper portion. The stopper core portion has curved surfaces on end faces which face an abutment surface of the holding member at least when the abutment surface of the holding member is brought into abutment with the stopper portion. The stopper core position is positioned such that extensions extending in a direction in which a load is applied to the stopper core portion by the holding member pass the curved surfaces.

Check link apparatus

A latch apparatus brings a latch which is accommodated rotationally movably in a case made up of a base plate and a cover plate into engagement with a striker which enters an entrance groove in the case. A fastening member which fastens the case to a mount member so as to move relative to the striker is provided within a range defined by projecting an area which has a radius centering at the striker onto the case, the radius being equal to a distance to an outermost position of the latch which is in engagement with the striker.

Latch apparatus

A first and a second surface of a latch for a seat permit sliding passage of the latch relative to a front leg of a striker, upon contact of the front leg with either of the first and second surfaces. A third surface in a containing space of the latch stops the latch by contacting the front leg. The third surface is arranged such that a rear leg of the striker is brought in alignment with a lock groove of the latch upon contact of the front leg with the third surface. The latch can be guided along the second surface when the second surface contacts the front leg, so that the second surface slides on and past the front leg. By continuously unfolding the seat back upwards until the third surface contacts the front leg, the seat back can be set to a design reference position.

Lock mechanism for automobile rear seat

A hook lever engages with a striker which enters as far as a deep side in an entering direction of the striker to hold the striker by moving from an opening position to an engagement position while being guided by a hook shaft provided on the deep side in the entering direction of the striker, and a guide lever is guided by the hook shaft and is biased from the deep side to an entrance side in the entering direction of the striker to restrict the movement of the hook lever towards the engagement position, while the guide lever is pressed against by the striker when the striker enters in the entering direction so as to move the hook lever to the engagement position, in such a state that the guide lever is partially overlapped on the hook lever.

Lock apparatus

A latch device includes a base member that has an entering groove having a deep side wall, a latch including an engaging groove having a restraining wall, and a ratchet that meshes with the latch in a meshed position. The latch device further includes a cam member that rotates the latch to a restrained position. In the restrained position, the cam member abuts against the latch to nip a striker between the deep side wall and the restraining wall. The restraining wall includes an inclined surface approaching the deep side wall toward an inlet side of the engaging groove at least in the meshed position.

Latch device

A biasing structure for biasing a locking pawl-equipped operation rod in a given direction is described. A slit is formed in a rear end of the operation rod. A spring retainer is integrally provided by a bracket through which the operation rod is rotatably connected to a movable rail. The spring retainer includes a rearwardly projected portion whose one surface faces toward a rear end portion of the operation rod and a recess which is formed in a base part of the projected portion and faces toward the rear end portion of the operation rod. A coil spring includes a multi-turned major portion, a front straight portion tangentially extending from a front end of the major portion and a rear straight portion extending radially inward from a rear end of the major portion. Upon assembly of the coil spring, the major portion thereof is disposed on the rear end portion of the operation rod with the front straight portion put in the recess and with the rear straight portion put in the slit while being twisted about its axis against a biasing force produced by the spring. The surface of the rearwardly projected portion is sized and arranged to support the front straight portion of the coil spring when the coil spring is about to be properly assembled.

Biasing structure of lock mechanism in automotive seat slide device

A rail unit comprises a fixed rail, a movable rail slidably engaged with the fixed rail and a locking mechanism for locking the movable rail relative to the fixed rail. In order to increase a mechanical strength of a given part of lower flanges of the movable rail where locking openings for the locking mechanism are formed, the given part is integrally formed at an upper end thereof with a raised portion, or the lower flanges of the movable rail are formed at mutually mating portions with depressed portions. When the movable rail and the fixed rail are subjected to a mutually pulled apart movement upon a vehicle collision of the like, the raised portion or the depression portions are brought into abutment with an inner surface of the fixed rail to suppress or at least minimize deformation of the rail unit.

Automotive seat slide device

A lower rail of channel structure is secured a floor. The lower rail has a longitudinally extending slot in an upper portion thereof. An upper rail is slidably engaged with the lower rail and mounts thereon a seat. The upper rail includes a base portion which is slidably received in the lower rail and a supporting wall portion which extends upward from the base portion and passes through the slot of the lower rail for connection with the seat. A protecting cover covers one end portion of the lower rail and has a longitudinally extending slit into which the supporting wall portion of the upper rail is inserted when the upper rail assumes an extreme position relative to the lower rail. A concealing structure is integral with the projecting cover and constructed to conceal the slit. The concealing structure and the supporting wall portion are so constructed as to permit the insertion of the supporting wall portion into the slit irrespective of provision of the concealing structure.

Seat slide device with protecting cover

A seat sliding device including a stationary rail secured at both ends thereof to a vehicle floor through brackets, a movable rail slidably engaged with the stationary rail and mounting thereon a seat, and a protective cover for covering the bracket and said stationary rail. The protective cover comprises a bracket cover portion covering the bracket, a rail cover portion connected to the bracket cover portion and covering an end portion of the stationary rail, and means for defining a guide groove which provides a space through which the movable rail passes. The protective cover contributes to an improvement in interior appearance and safety of a passenger compartment of vehicles.

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Yokohama, Japan

Kiyohiko Kamata