Keiper Recaro, Inc.

Keiper U.s.a., Inc.

Other

Chrysler Motors Corporation

Keiper Automobiltechnik Gmbh & Co Kg

Vikram H Zaveri

Bernd A Kluting

Bernd A Klueting

Dennis H Heling

Egon Nithammer

Gerhard Loewe

Daniel Boyer

Keith S Radyko

A novel electromechanical apparatus for operating the conventional rolling pin on a motor-driven disc board for making dough discs out of dough balls. The apparatus comprising: a box-like housing structure for the mechanism; a motor-driven disc board on top of the housing structure; a reciprocating rolling pin on top of the rotating disc board; a glider for mounting the rolling pin; a slider-guide mechanism for imparting reciprocatory motion to the glider; a drive link for translating the rotary motion of a motor-driven eccenter into the reciprocatory motion of the slider; a frame structure for supporting the aforesaid drive system; a manually shiftable motor mounting bracket for varying the rolling pin stroke length; a four-bar mechanism for raising and lowering the entire frame structure along with the drive system to effectuate raising, lowering, and pressing of the rolling pin over the dough; two lower brackets, rigidly attached to the housing walls for mounting the four-bar mechanism; a momentary stop switch for cutting off power when the rolling pin is fully upraised; a plurality of resilient means for counterbalancing all stationary and moving loads, and for keeping the contacts of the momentary stop switch open; a multifunction control handle for raising, lowering, and pressing of the rolling pin, for actuating the momentary stop switch, and for changing the rolling pin stroke length; and a variable speed gearmotor for changing the speed of the rolling pin stroke and for halting the rolling pin at the extremities of its longest stroke.

Electric rolling pin apparatus for making discs of dough

Seat back adjuster having cam locked toothed pawl in sector engagement with extensive remote handle actuation including linkage providing a minimized hand lever travel and positive pawl drive out.

Remote seat back adjuster

Passenger car individual front passenger seat back actuated seat latch release means comprising pivotally connected seat and seat back bracket means, longitudinal track seat adjustment means including manual latch release means, pivoted lever means on the seat bracket means, striker means fixed on the seat back bracket means responsive to forward tilting for actuating the lever means, linkage means from the lever means for actuating said manual latch release means, the striker means including a surface for retaining the lever means in latch release mode during manual return of the seat to rearward position and seat back to upright position.

Vehicle easy entry seat latching mechanism

The invention provides an actuating linkage assembly tolerance compensating system comprising means for establishing a final linkage pivot location at the end of assembly operations. The incomplete assembly is located with one end of a link in a piercing die press fixture oriented relative to connecting linkage to provide required final operating handle position.

Linkage tolerance compensating system

A hinge unit for a seat, particularly an automotive vehicle seat, has a fixed hinge element associated with a seat part of a seat and including an upper region provided with a recess with an end abutment, a pivotable hinge element associated with a back part of the seat and pivotably connected with the fixed hinge element, a two-side catch lever pivotally connected with the pivotable hinge element and having a locking projection engageable with the abutment of the fixed hinge element and a heavy arm with a weight urging the catch lever so that the projection assumes its free position, and a retaining element urging the catch lever so that the latter assumes its locking position.

Hinge unit for a seat, particularly a power vehicle seat

A vehicle seat back adjuster with manually releasable forward tilt lock providing fine increments of adjustment through the combination of a translation overdrive for a fine tooth ratchet accommodated by accurate location of extremity stops and special provision for assuring full tooth engagement at extremity positions.

Seat back adjuster

A passenger car seat back inertia latch providing gravity actuated latch release and deceleration responsive inertia latch retention characterized by a compound resolution of predominant opposing gravity and deceleration forces to provide more sensitive and dependable latch retention at a predetermined minimum emergency vehicle deceleration as well as minimum weight to unlock the latch when the vehicle is stationary over a wider range of seat back adjustment and vehicle inclination than is possible with the conventional simple one-piece inertia latch wherein horizontal and vertical coordinates of the center of gravity relative to a latch pivot are solely depended upon to produce respective opposite gravity actuated release and inertia actuated locking moments on the latch element.

Composite inertia latch for vehicle seat back

An inertia latch return linkage for a seat back inertia latch system normally biasing the inertia latch to an engagement oriented position maintained by inertia effect upon sudden vehicle deceleration, such linkage being rendered inoperative to permit gravity disengagement of the inertia latch upon initial seat back tilting in a forward direction when the vehicle is stationary.

Seat back inertia latch system

A gravity and inertia responsive latch mechanism for accommodating pivotal forward tilting of a vehicle seat back to permit ingress and egress of back seat passengers when the vehicle is stationary without requiring manual release and for automatically preventing forward tilting of the seat back under sudden deceleration such as incident to a front end collision. A spring detent cooperates to resist initial forward tilting of the seat back rendering the inertia latch more dependable under marginal and unusual conditions of operation.

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Springfield, MI, United States of America

Vikram H Zaveri