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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2008
Applicants:
Yoshiyuki Kumazaki, Aichi-ken, JP;
Shinji Nonaka, Toyota, JP;
Inventors:
Yoshiyuki Kumazaki, Aichi-ken, JP;
Shinji Nonaka, Toyota, JP;
Assignee:
Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha, Aichi-Ken, unknown;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60N 2/20 (2006.01); B60N 2/22 (2006.01); B60N 2/235 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Each of the pawls that are capable of rotationally locking a reclining device has a hardness greater than a slide cam that is capable of pressing the pawls to engage a ratchet. When a large load capable of forcibly rotationally displacing the ratchet is applied thereto while the pawls mesh with the ratchet, the pawls are pressed by the ratchet in a radially inward direction in which the pawls are disengaged therefrom, so as to press the slide cam with an increased buckling strength and plastically deform the same.