Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Aoyama Seisakusho Co., Ltd.

Yoshiaki Nishimura

Hiroshi Kazino

Hiromichi Mizuno

Masaaki Ide

Yoshihiro Murase

Kazunori Hashimoto

Hideki Kakamu

Tomiyasu Kakeno

Naruaki Abe

Toru Iwamura

Hiroshi Jonishi

Masao Sakai

Yoshinori Kanou

Susumu Kitajima

When a rear seat is moved forward, a front leg is swung forward around a roller arm. When the front leg of the rear seat is swung forward by a predetermined angle, a hook provided in the roller arm is detached from a round bar portion of a striker so that a roller is moved downward along a guide rail. Further, as the roller is moved downward along the guide rail, the front leg of the rear seat is swung forward around the roller arm. Therefore, a radius of rotation of the seat is reduced when the rear seat is moved to a position for storage on a vertical-front-side floor surface.

Vehicle seat storing device

A holding device for use in assembling mechanical members comprises a joint head having a spherical head and a fastener formed continuous with the spherical head; and a clip having a joint cavity member formed of an elastic material, the joint cavity member having a groove portion having a cross-section corresponding in shape to an external shape of the spherical head, and receiving lip portions formed continuous with the groove portion, the receiving lip portions spreading outward, and a fastener formed continuous with the joint cavity member. The spherical head of the joint can be fitted in the groove portion to be held therein, whereby a member which is fastened to the fastener of the joint head and a member which is fastened to the fastener of the clip can be preliminarily held to each other. The invention provides the preliminarily-holding device for use in assembling mechanical members, which is capable of causing a part (e.g. a bumper of an automotive vehicle) having destortion in its formed shape to be preliminarily held onto a body (e.g. of the vehicle) having dimensional or positional errors in assembly, while absorbing deviations in the positional relationship between the part and body to be assembled.

Holding device for use in assembling mechanical members

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Yoshiaki Nishimura