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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2018
Adient Engineering and Ip Gmbh, Burscheid, DE;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Toshimitsu Mizukoshi, Saitama, JP;
Masaki Shimazu, Saitama, JP;
Taiji Misono, Saitama, JP;
Hiroyuki Yasui, Kanagawa, JP;
Motohiko Ozawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Thomas D Novitsky, Plymouth, MI (US);
Adient Engineering and IP GmbH, Burscheid, DE;
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A seat lifter structure which can maintain the engagement of the gear of the sector and the pinion of the brake unit and prevent a fall down of the seat back to a front side, even when a large force to a front side is exerted with respect to the seat back is provided. It raises or lowers a cushion seat (ST) by raising or lowering a side frame () built into the cushion seat (ST) with respect to a fixing member (). It is equipped with a brake unit () having a pinion () and attached to the side frame (); a sector () supported to be rotatable with respect to the fixing member () by a first support portion (), supported to be rotatable with respect to the side frame () via a second support portion (), having a gear portion () to be engaged with the pinion () and provided in parallel and facing with respect to the side frame (); and a spacer () having a first surface () facing with the side frame () and a second surface () facing with the sector (), which is installed between the side frame () and the sector ().