Lear Corporation

Johnson Controls Technology Company

Robert Paul Adams

David F Ekern

Ornela Zekavica

Robert L Hancock

Gary Paul Parko

Glen Daniel Wingblad

A vehicle seat assembly includes a seat frame having a seat back and stadium-type seat base for movement between a seating position and a storage position to improve ease of entry to the vehicle area behind the vehicle seat. The vehicle seat assembly includes a swing assembly coupled to the seat back and configured to rotate the folded seat assembly around a substantially vertical axis. A single handle operation is included for unlatching the seat latches&#x2014;the seat base automatically flips up&#x2014;and pivoting the entire vehicle seat toward the interior of the vehicle to allow easy entry behind the vehicle seat.

Vehicle seating system

A cross wire linked between master and slave lock bars of a vehicle seat adjuster assembly has a normally fixed length, but can lengthen when needed to accommodate a wide build condition of the parallel seat tracks. The fixed length of the cross wire is set so as to accommodate every condition but for master lock bar opening at wide build, when the slave lock bar will fully open before the master lock bar has fully opened. At that point, and only at that point, a central, integral coil spring in the cross bar, which is preloaded to match the fully open return spring force of the slave lock bar, stretches and allows the whole cross wire to effectively lengthen. The master lock bar can then be fully opened without overstressing the wire.

Vehicle seat adjuster with self compensating cross wire length

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Macomb, MI, United States of America

Robert Paul Adams