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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2009
Takayuki Endo, Toyota, JP;
Hideki Uramichi, Toyota, JP;
Takayuki Endo, Toyota, JP;
Hideki Uramichi, Toyota, JP;
Toyota Boshoku Kabushiki Kaisha, Aichi-Ken, JP;
Abstract
A connector for a vehicle seat includes a ratchet, a guide, and engagement pieces. The engagement pieces are supported so as to be movable only in the radial direction of the guide, and prevent relative rotation between the ratchet and the guide when engaged with an inner peripheral toothed face of the ratchet. The inner peripheral toothed face is formed in the inner peripheral face of an annular wall that extends from the outer peripheral portion of a disc portion of the ratchet in its axial direction. The inner peripheral face is in contact with and supported by outer peripheral faces of guide walls that project in the axial direction from the inner disc face of the guide. Thus, the ratchet and the guide are coaxially fitted together so as to be rotatable relative to each other.