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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 16, 1997
James Peter Nini, Clinton Township, Macomb County, MI (US);
Joseph Michael Heilig, Macomb, MI (US);
Joseph Tarry Galea, Kewadin, MI (US);
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
A manual seat adjuster with easy entry mode and position memory has an improved means to hold the spring loaded lock bar out of engagement with the locking teeth during the return trip of the front seat. At the beginning of the easy entry mode, as a rear seat entering passenger begins to slide the front seat forward, the lock bar initially rotates open, while the memory marker remains fixed in place. A window on a carrier arm rotatable with the lock bar circumferentially aligns itself with a keeper on a stationary latch, but the latch keeper is temporarily pushed to the side and out of the aligned window by engagement with a stop member on the stationary memory marker. As the seat begins to move forward, the latch moves away from the stop member and the keeper moves into the carrier window, where it can catch and hold the carrier arm to hold the lock bar open during the return trip of the front seat.