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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2026
Filed:
May. 31, 2023
Adient Us Llc, Plymouth, MI (US);
Ingo Quast, Düsseldorf, DE;
Erik Sprenger, Wermelskirchen, DE;
Adient US LLC, Plymouth, MI (US);
Abstract
A longitudinal adjuster may have a pair of rails and a drive device for the pair of rails. The pair of rails may have a first rail and has a second rail on which the first rail is displaceably guided. The drive device may have at least one motor, a transmission unit, a spindle block which has an inner thread, and a spindle which has an outer thread operatively connected to the inner thread of the spindle block, a spindle bearing and a coupling for coupling the spindle and the motor. The spindle may be mounted along a spindle axis to rotate in the spindle block, the transmission unit, the coupling, the spindle, the spindle bearing and optionally the motor being arranged on a shared axis within the pair of rails. A vehicle seat may be provided with the longitudinal adjuster.