Chrysler Corporation

Chrysler Motors Corporation

Michael J Sweers

Janice E Cote

Lynn K Tilly

Christopher J Pesta

A one-piece guide sleeve for a vehicle seatback headrest support post enabling infinite vertical movement of the headrest. The guide sleeve provides integral locking prongs which normally apply frictional self-effort force to the support post. Conforming notches on the post are adapted to trap the prongs in a self-locking manner to prevent unintentional removal of the headrest assembly from the seatback.

Self-adjusting headrest guide arrangement

One-piece plastic actuation button for a vehicle seat adjuster providing ready snap-in interlocking capture of the button in a panel elongated opening while permitting smooth reciprocal travel therein. The button comprises an elongated head portion having its undersurface formed with a coextensive guide channel sized to receive therein a tongue portion of a seat adjust lever. The channel cooperates with upper and lower vertically spaced stem portions projecting normally from the button face to swing the tongue and operate the release lever. The upper stem portion is a push-in retainer comprising bifurcated mirror-image hook-halves defining a slotted intermediate space therebetween and two opposed outwardly divergent slopes terminating in a pair of undercut locking shoulders. The hook-halves are resiliently deformable between a normal inserted locking condition wherein the tongue portion is received in the intermediate space and a compressed condition wherein the slopes permit push-in insertion in the panel opening.

One-piece actuation button for vehicle seat recliner

A seat cushion frame is mounted on a vehicle floor panel by a composite anchor member adapted to be snap-fitted into position in a panel aperture. The anchor member includes a plastic lower shell part bonded to an upper rubber seal ring part. The shell part has an oval-section hollow socket portion with its upper open end, adapted to receive a frame mounted striker, formed with a peripheral inverted U-section collar portion ending in a V-section terminal spring flange. The rubber seal ring provides a right-angled section defining a horizontal sealing lip portion and vertical neck portion formed with a resilient shoulder adapted to lockingly engage the rolled edge of the floor panel aperture. The seal ring part is formed with a U-shaped loop bonded to the inner surface of the shell socket defining vertically disposed wedge-shaped ribs having opposed ramp faces establishing a lead-in gaped notch. Upon the striker bight portion being received in the notch and pushed downwardly the resultant wedging action causes the shell socket and opposed collar portions to deform outwardly allowing the bight portion to snapingly pass through the gap for locking capture in the anchor member.

Composite anchor attaching arrangement for vehicle seat

An actuation button retaining frame member for a vehicle seat adjuster or the like providing quick action installation and positive retention of the button in a panel elongated opening. The frame member is dimensioned for slidable reception on a box-shaped stem portion integral with the button. The frame member has the interior surface of its side elements formed with raised lugs adapted to be slidably received in edge positioning slots of the stem portion. Arcuate shaped runners are formed on the side elements facing the fixed end of the button stem portion. The slots readily position the frame member arcuate-shaped runners in juxtaposed relation to the panel's inner surface providing smooth reciprocal travel of the button along the opening.

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Williamston, MI, United States of America

Michael J Sweers