Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Imasen Denki Seisakusho

Kabushik Kaisha Imasen Denki Seisakusho

Masahiro Tomida

Shingo Kutomi

Masami Tanaka

Yasuji Morinishi

Hiromi Seki

Yoshinori Sugawara

Mitsunao Komura

Masatoshi Ushida

A seat slide device for automotive vehicles including a lower rail to be fixed to a floor panel of an automotive vehicle, an upper rail slidably fitted to the lower rail, a lock plate capable of locking, at a desired position, a sliding movement of the upper rail in which the lock plate is pivotally supported by the upper rail, and a seat bracket for fixing a seat cushion which is secured to the upper rail. The lower rail includes, when viewed in a direction of an end face thereof, two side wall portions bent upwardly from two sides of a bottom wall portion, top wall portions bent inwardly in mutually opposing directions like a fishing hook from upper ends of the side wall portions, and vertically-downwardly extending wall portions. The upper rail includes a pair of generally L-shaped plates each of which includes a horizontal wall portion which is bent like a fishing hook from a lower end portion of a vertical wall portion and a raised wall portion. The pair of L-shaped plates being abutted with each other at the back sides of the vertical wall portions and fixed together to form a vertical wall unit. The vertical wall unit of the upper rail is situated at a central portion of a space formed between the opposing downwardly-extended wall portions of the lower rail and the raised walls being situated in spatial areas formed between the side wall portions and the downwardly-extended wall portions.

Seat slide device for automotive vehicles

A removable folding seat is equipped with a first locking member to lock the front lower portion of a seat frame removably to a floor, a second locking member to lock the rear lower portion of the seat frame removably to the floor, and a third locking member to hold the seat in a folding position. The first and third locking members are simultaneously driven by a first lever. The second and third locking members are driven by the common second lever. When the seat is in a seating position, the second lever is allowed to drive the second locking member and inhibited from driving the third locking member. Also, when the seat is in the folding position, the second lever is inhibited from driving the second locking member and allowed to drive the third locking member.

Removable folding seat

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Inuyama, Japan

Masahiro Tomida